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Asigra Opens Doors To Interoperability Lab

Asigra announced its Asigra Interoperability Assurance Lab, created to validate the company's Televaulting software solution with third-party vendors' hardware and software storage platforms. The lab is based at Asigra's corporate headquarters in Toronto.

The majority of the Asigra Interoperability Assurance Lab testing will center on measuring performance and capacity scalability to identify potential bottlenecks. Lab engineers run tests with billions of directories and hundreds of millions of files in a single volume to determine disk subsystem performance and file system limitations.

"Interoperability claims are often based on hypothetical assumptions or because a product worked in a similar environment or test, however, we are taking a more reliable and individual approach to demonstrating interoperability," said Eran Farajun, Asigra executive vice president. "The Asigra Lab allows us to test and validate our claims and ensures that a joint solution with a third-party vendor will in fact work as promised when installed at a customer's site."

A key benefit to interoperability testing is increased sales for storage hardware vendors who can easily market a joint solution to its customers, as well as faster and higher levels of customer service by service providers who can be confident that Asigra's pre-tested solution provides 24-7 data availability. Interoperability assurance is also an important process for both customers of the Asigra Televaulting solution as well as users of third-party storage technologies. For those who wish to leverage their current investment in incumbent solutions, interoperability testing will ensure that both products will work smoothly together.

Tests are performed for direct-attached disk, NAS and SAN configurations. To date, Asigra has tested various vendors' storage products, including Dell, Sun, HP, IBM, LSI Logic and NetApp. Other tests include connecting the storage sub-systems to multi-node N+1 Grid configurations of the Asigra software to simulate thousands of simultaneous connections.

Asigra Televaulting is agentless multi-site backup/recovery software that combines utility service provisioning with a disk-based, WAN-optimized architecture to shatter the limitations of traditional distributed backup software. Asigra Televaulting provides grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load. Asigra eliminates many storage pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization, built from the ground up to perform on a global level. It is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers, not to take the place of data center backup software, but complement it for remote sites. Business benefits that differentiate Asigra's offering from other backup solutions include true regulatory compliance, reduction in worldwide IT management expenditures, compounded reduction of hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs, a pay-as-you-grow pricing model and the highest level of assurance that all company data is protected.