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SonicWall
As part of an ongoing strategy to expand offerings in the SMB IT market, SonicWALL acquired Lasso Logic, a provider of SMB-focused Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology, in November, 2005. CDP technologies enable any-point-in-time recovery for application data. That move has enabled SonicWALL to add a critical new element to their offerings: disk-based backup and recovery.
Continuous Data Technologies: A New Paradigm
“Continuous Data” has become one of the truly worthwhile and enduring new concepts in the storage industry over the past 24 months. To date, the term has been associated with “Continuous Data Protection” (CDP) given the focus of the early vendors in this market. However, continuous data approaches are applicable to far more than just CDP for backup and recovery.
Kashya KBX 5000 Data protection Appliance
We have seen several key advances in the past year in the technology category known as Continuous Data Technologies (CDT). Defined at the highest level, all CDT solutions enable very granular data capture and the subsequent presentation of application data across Any Point in Time (APIT). This new approach stands in sharp contrast to the historical Point in Time (PIT) based copy-creating technologies that have dominated the data center, including traditional snapshots.
BakBone Introduces NetVault: TrueCDP – Integrated, Continuous Data Protection
In this profile we review this challenge of fast and granular data recoverability, the role of CDP, and the advantage of BakBone’s NetVault: TrueCDP for fast and consistent file recovery in environments running the BakBone suite of data protection products.
Finally time to declare full backups dead
Continuous data protection (CDP) was bleeding-edge a few years ago, but it’s re-emerging as the best technology for protecting organization's virtual environments.
- Premiered: 07/16/12
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: SearchStorage.com
Violin Memory joins SSD vendors adding data management
Violin Memory Inc. today launched its Concerto 7000 All Flash Array line and software suite, adding the vendor to the list of solid-state storage vendors that are expanding capacity and adding data management features typically found in enterprise disk-based systems.
- Premiered: 06/25/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Solid State Storage
Hyper-converged vendors focus on data protection
Hyper-convergence has impacted primary storage, but Arun Taneja says hyper-converged vendors are bringing the concept to data protection.
- Premiered: 09/03/15
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: TechTarget: Search Data Backup
Reduxio launches hybrid array with built-in protection
Startup Reduxio Systems launches hybrid storage system with BackDating data recovery to any second in time, inline dedupe, and continuous block tiering.
- Premiered: 09/04/15
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Solid State Storage
Towards the Ultimate Goal of IT Resilience: A Look at the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform
We live in a digital world where online services, applications and data must always be available. Yet the modern data center remains very susceptible to interruptions. These opposing realities are challenging traditional backup applications and disaster recovery solutions and causing companies to rethink what is needed to ensure 100% uptime of their IT environments.
The need for availability goes well beyond recovering from disasters. Companies must be able to rapidly recover from many real world disruptions such as ransomware, device failures and power outages as well as natural disasters. Add to this the dynamic nature of virtualization and cloud computing, and it’s not hard to see the difficulty of providing continuous availability while managing a highly variable IT environment that is susceptible to trouble.
Some companies feel their backup devices will give them adequate data protection and others believe their disaster recovery solutions will help them restore normal business operations if an incident occurs. Regrettably, far too often these solutions fall short of meeting user expectations because they don’t provide the rapid recovery and agility needed for full business continuance.
Fortunately, there is a way to ensure a consistent experience in an inconsistent world. It’s called IT resilience. IT resilience is the ability to ensure business services are always on, applications are available and data is accessible no matter what human errors, events, failures or disasters occur. And true IT resilience goes a step further to provide continuous data protection (CDP), end-to-end recovery automation irrespective of the makeup of a company’s IT environment and the flexibility to evolve IT strategies and incorporate new technology.
Intrigued by the promise of IT resilience, companies are seeking data protection solutions that can withstand any disaster to enable a reliable online experience and excellent business performance. In a recent Taneja Group survey, nearly half the companies selected “high availability and resilient infrastructure” as one of their top two IT priorities. In the same survey, 67% of respondents also indicated that unplanned application downtime compromised their ability to satisfy customer needs, meet partner and supplier commitments and close new business.
This strong customer interest in IT resilience has many data protection vendors talking about “resilience.” Unfortunately, many backup and disaster recovery solutions don’t provide continuous data protection plus hardware independence, strong virtualization support and tight cloud integration. This is a tough combination and presents a big challenge for data protection vendors striving to provide enterprise-grade IT resilience.
There is however one data protection vendor that has replication and disaster recovery technologies designed from the ground up for IT resilience. The Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform built on Zerto Virtual Replication offers CDP, failover (for higher availability), end-to-end process automation, heterogeneous hypervisor support and native cloud integration. As a result, IT resilience with continuous availability, rapid recovery and agility is a core strength of the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform.
This paper will explore the functionality needed to tackle modern data protection requirements. We will also discuss the challenges of traditional backup and disaster recovery solutions, outline the key aspects of IT resilience and provide an overview of the Zerto Cloud Continuity Platform as well as the hypervisor-based replication that Zerto pioneered.
Veeam Expands Data Protection Platform with Several Product Announcements at VeeamON 2017
The theme at VeeamON 2017 last week was “availability for the always on enterprise”. While the subject of “availability” was very familiar to attendees, the parade of announcements that followed made it clear that a new day is dawning at Veeam – one that stretches far beyond their roots in virtual data protection.
- Premiered: 05/22/17
- Author: Steve Ricketts