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Storage:
MirrorStore Delivers High
Availability Data Protection
The data protection component of StorageTek's Information Lifecycle
Management
strategy took yet another step forward today.
StorageTek, a storage services and solutions expert, unveiled its
MirrorStore
replication appliance for local and remote data replication and mirroring.
This solution is designed for seamless integration in heterogeneous
environments. MirrorStore delivers advanced enterprise-class business
continuity and disaster recovery capabilities, enhanced disk-to-disk backup,
and centralized storage management and consolidation at a low total cost of
ownership.
"We are committed to helping our customers improve their productivity,
improve
their service levels and reduce their total cost of ownership. Today's 24-7
enterprises require advanced solutions that protect against the enormous risk
of data loss and the associated costs of business downtime," said Pierre
Cousin, StorageTek vice president and general manager of Online Solutions.
"MirrorStore plays a key role in StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management
strategy by enabling customers to create a secondary copy of their critical
information to protect it in the event of system failure or disaster.
"Furthermore, they can leverage innovative disk technologies like
BladeStore
into their existing storage environments as a way of protecting more data
online."
MirrorStore is an in-band, SAN-level replication appliance that fits into
enterprises' open system computing environments to deliver maximum performance
and flexibility. MirrorStore helps customers save time, money and productivity
by providing high data availability and fast recovery from disasters and
system failures. Additionally, MirrorStore works in tandem with StorageTek's
advanced D-Series and B-Series disk subsystems to provide cost-effective
tiered storage and a robust disk-based data protection solution consistent
with StorageTek's Information Lifecycle Management strategy.
StorageTek MirrorStore is ideally suited for the following
applications:
Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery MirrorStore offers continuous 24-7 business operations and minimal
downtime via local and remote data replication and mirroring, enabling data to
be mirrored, replicated or backed-up from one disk system at a primary site to
a more cost-effective disk system (i.e. StorageTek BladeStore) at another site
across campus, town or the globe. MirrorStore enables synchronous and
asynchronous mirroring, innovative delta-based, transaction-aware replication
over Fibre Channel or IP networks, and point-in-time snapshot technology with
volume rollbacks for both hard and rolling disasters such as data corruptions
and viruses. For MirrorStore customers requiring a detailed assessment or
improved design of their DR/BC environments, StorageTek offers a complete
array of Professional Services to support its customers. "Windowless" Disk-to-Disk Backup and Recovery Enterprises with small or non-existent backup windows are turning
more and more to disk-to-disk backup for continuous online backup and
recovery. Earlier this year, StorageTek launched its EchoView appliance, an
innovative product that performs continuous online back up and very granular
transactional level roll-back capability. MirrorStore offers a more
conventional SAN-level method of disk-to-disk protection with volume level
roll-back capability. Both products deliver centralized, disk-to-disk backup
and recovery, shattering the backup window. Tape backup can then be performed
from the secondary disk copy without impacting system operations. StorageTek
Professional Services help customers implement cost-effective Information
Lifecycle Management, and EchoView and MirrorStore strengthen that
offering. Centralized Storage Management MirrorStore provides centralized storage management across
heterogeneous environments greatly reducing the storage management complexity
and its costs. With its Java based console, MirrorStore leverages advanced
virtualization technology to provide heterogeneous storage consolidation and
highly centralized storage management to reduce costs and management
complexity. MirrorStore allows fewer administrators to easily manage more data
through centralization of all storage management policies and procedures,
minimizing the total cost of ownership of managing storage.
MirrorStore's open systems architecture works seamlessly with existing IT
systems to maximize the return on current investments and improve storage
resource utilization to extend the value of enterprises' existing hardware
infrastructure.
"Users' growing need for fast, efficient recovery from system failure or
downtime is driving the need to deploy 'hot,' stand-by storage repositories to
store backup data copies online," said Rob Schafer, program director at META
Group. "As a result, the storage solutions market is increasingly driven by
complete BC/DR solutions that weave together hardware, software and services
to provide continuous data protection and high data availability."
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