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Business Solutions for Continuous Data Protection

Storage Engine offers comprehensive continuous data protection (CDP) solutions that maximize business continuity for all enterprises, branch offices, and SMBs

Fastest, Most Granular Data Recovery Maximizes Business Continuity

Benefits

  • Protection across all heterogeneous storage devices (including servers, workstations, and laptops) and storage topologies (NAS, SAN, and DAS)
  • Intelligent any-point-in-time rapid data recovery to meet or exceed RPO - fine-grained consistency points protect data continuously and offer the industry's most up-to-date recovery
  • Application-aware, transactionally consistent recovery of active data for near-zero RTO
  • Event bookmarking for on-demand point-in-time data recovery
  • Reliable disaster protection via adaptive replication of data to an offsite location
  • Administrator- or end-user initiated recovery with point-and-click ease
  • Delivers file-, database-, email-, volume-level protection and system bare metal recovery
  • Protects remote offices by enabling them to maintain a current copy of their data at the central data center
  • Eliminates dependency on production data sets and backup windows by enabling backup, email message recovery, and virus scanning overhead to be offloaded to secondary data sets

Storage Engine's adaptive CDP solutions protect servers, workstations, and laptops in networked and direct attached storage environments by facilitating the industry's fastest, most granular recovery of mission critical databases, messaging data, files, and even entire systems in the event of hardware or software failures and site-level disasters.

Storage Engine CDP builds on the success of the company's VirtualTape Library (VTL) and Synchronism® product lines by again extending the boundaries of data recovery, enabling organizations to protect data between their regularly scheduled backups, minimize the risk of data loss, and meet increasingly more stringent recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO).

Unique, intelligent user interface that is easy to use

Storage Engine CDP is an advanced technology that provides unparalleled protection by creating a continuously updated local and/or remote copy of an active data set. Changes to the copy are continually journaled and can be bookmarked to any point in time for rapid administrator- or user-initiated recovery. A unique "visual slider" interface allows users to intelligently roll back to the most relevant image while pinpointing optimal recovery points for fastest time to recovery, a major advantage over the trial-and-error recovery methods offered by other vendors.

Unprecedented integration with database, messaging, and file systems

Storage Engine CDP tightly integrates with an unprecedented range of database, messaging, and file systems-including Microsoft® Exchange, SQL Server, and Windows; Oracle®; Sybase®; IBM® Lotus Notes/Domino and DB2 UDB®, Linux, and NetWare®-to put active applications in a stable state so that they can be backed up with complete transactional and point-in-time integrity. This application-awareness enables all essential information to be recovered very quickly, without lengthy consistency checks or failed recoveries, and is in sharp contrast to brute-force snapshots, which result in partial transactions and file-system level inconsistency.

Leveraging Storage Engine CDP for Efficient Disaster Recovery and Faster Backup

Deploying Storage Engine CDP solutions delivers benefits that reach beyond immediate recovery of local data. Storage Engine CDP provides effective disaster protection by using Storage Engine's Adaptive Replication to copy data offsite, across any distance over IP. This automated process replicates only delta changes to prevent performance bottlenecks and monitors bandwidth and switches from continuous to periodic mode if necessary so that replication is not interrupted and data integrity is ensured. Sophisticated software-based data encryption ensures end-to-end security between primary and DR site without additional overhead.

Moreover, once a CDP copy has been made of a data set, it can be leveraged in conjunction with VTL to dramatically accelerate backups to tape either at the local data center or at a centralized location for fast, consolidated backup.

Storage Engine CDP - An Integral Component of Recovery Lifecycle Management (RLM)

Storage Engine CDP is an essential component of Recovery Lifecycle Management (RLM), a framework that provides organizations with a cradle-to-grave strategy for quickly recovering data at any given point in its lifetime. RLM is an adaptive approach to data protection that takes into account the age and relevance of data when considering the best way to generate and maintain a backup data set. Research has shown that tape-based backups alone do not provide sufficient protection for data that is constantly changing. Disk-based backups - specifically CDP, VTL, and remote replication for disaster recovery purposes - fill this void.