To support our global 24-7 business environment, companies have responded with higher availability applications and infrastructure. At the same time, the amount of data that must be backed up has grown exponentially. Typically, backup operations have occurred overnight or during weekend hours when a "backup window" was available. With today's always-on demands, this window has shrunk to the point where companies require near-instantaneous backup. While operations must be able to complete backups within an available window, it's also critical that the data being backed up can be recovered with minimum disruption to a mission-critical application.
Business problems associated with today's backup and recovery operations include:
Application performance: Productivity and customer satisfaction are affected by need for lengthy backup windows.
Application availability: Lengthy recovery times can cause business operations to be unavailable resulting in lost revenue especially for mission-critical applications.
Unknown recovery reliability: There is little assurance that tape backups are complete and can be used for recovery.
Management complexity: Using tape as the primary backup target can require significant manual intervention and increase costs.
Tremendous growth of data: The transition to a digital world, records, photography, video, etc., has exacerbated the challenges of backup and recovery.
The LSI backup and recovery portfolio of solutions solves these problems by offering the replication and nondisruptive backup and recovery products and services.
This paper will discuss the use of StoreAge’s multiMirror snapshot-enhanced asynchronous mirroring solution, and examine how using snapshot-enhanced asynchronous mirroring technology can provide higher performance, high data integrity and faster recovery compared to synchronous approaches
The complete StoreAge solution set includes 7 key areas where the StoreAge solution enables management of ever-growing amounts of information with fewer resources by centralizing management, automating key tasks, and simplifying day to day tasks.
This article describes data handling for disaster recovery failover procedures, outlining the problems uncovered during testing and suggests solutions.
Discussion of the use of the StoreAge multiMirror snapshot-enhanced asynchronous mirroring solution, and examination of how using snapshot-enhanced asynchronous mirroring technology can provide higher performance, high data integrity and faster recovery compared to synchronous approaches.
Data Recovery is somewhat similar to life insurance – you invest your money today, to overcome a possible disaster in the future. Just like insurance, Disaster Recovery Planning is a complex and constantly changing subject. There are many options, and there are many highly-paid consultants who often have different interests than their clients. Therefore, it is no surprise that this complexity generates myths – many of which are erroneous. This white paper answers some of the most frequently asked questions in this area of technology.
Data protection requirements have changed dramatically as corporations have become more dependent on IT applications to run their businesses. As the value of data has increased, and as organizations better understand the financial impact of system downtime, many IT departments are now requiring their data to have multiple layers of protection. This white paper describes how the multiView data snapshot and asynchronous multiMirror data mirroring applications from LSI can be integrated with existing backup tools to provide superior data protection as required by today's enterprise environment.
