Disaster Recovery
If the majority of your disaster recovery budget is allocated to protect only your most critical applications, a large portion of your business-critical servers is left under-protected. Since the risk of downtime is so high, the need to deploy your disaster recovery solution is not a matter of if, but when. Moreover, in a challenging economy, the business risks associated with downtime—lost productivity, revenue opportunities and customer loyalty—are even greater.
Any business-critical server essential to maintaining operations will require costly fault tolerance and clustering solutions, while any business-supporting servers that are not essential to running the operations will employ ineffective restore and recover solutions. Disaster Recovery planning is an essential element of your business, and we can help simplify the entire process.
Virtualization and Workload Management from Novell offers a simplified disaster recovery and business continuity solution. It bridges the gap between performance-based disaster recovery through infrastructure duplication, and affordable disaster recovery through data back-up. This gives you an innovative way to protect all business-critical servers.
Consolidated Recovery
Any good disaster recovery plan needs to provide for fast and thorough restoration of workloads in case of unexpected interruptions in service. Our consolidated recovery solution uses virtualization to cost-effectively recover and restore business-critical servers in the event of downtime. We enable you to replicate whole server workloads—data, applications and operating systems—as a unified stack and into a warm standby. We do this by virtualizing recovery environments, allowing users to restore essential server workloads in just minutes.
We allow you to fully test your replicated workloads to ensure they will run in the event of downtime. Should downtime occur, you can restore business operations by redirecting users to the replicated workload in the virtual recovery environment, or restore the workload quickly to the same or new hardware.
Our solution is easy to deploy and is available as an out-of-the-box hardware appliance or software that leverages your existing virtual environment. Consolidated recovery extends your business continuity budget so you can protect a greater share of your business-critical servers and enable faster recovery times.
Consolidated recovery technologies are ideal for medium and large enterprises looking for a recovery solution that can protect up to several hundred Windows-based workloads in a warm standby virtual environment with recovery time objectives (RTOs) of just a few minutes. This technology leverages an existing VMware environment or can be deployed as a stand-alone plug-in and protect recovery appliance.
This self-contained hardware appliance provides a complete out-of-the-box recovery environment and is ideal for small and medium enterprises looking for a turn-key solution for disaster recovery.
Flexible Image Restore
Ideally, your disaster recovery software should provide you with the ability to quickly move restored workloads wherever you want to place them. Our flexible image restore solution provides options for recovering and restoring failed workloads to any available server—virtual or physical. PlateSpin® Protect offers flexible images to capture whole server workloads—data, applications and operating systems—and store them in a local or remote image library.
Workload portability technology allows users to quickly restore critical workloads in just a few hours, to any available resource, whether virtual or bare metal, regardless of hypervisor platform or server vendor. You can replicate incremental changes that occur to the production workload on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, enabling you to roll back to the last known good state of a protected workload. For isolated file corruption, an easy-to-use content explorer also allows easy recovery of individual files.
The flexible image restore technology is ideal for medium, large and very large enterprises looking for a more advanced restore and recover solution that can replace inflexible legacy back-up solutions. Environments of up to several hundred workloads can be stored as images at an on-site or off-site recovery environment with RTO (recovery time objectives) of just a few hours. This technology is platform agnostic and can restore failed workloads onto any virtual machine or hardware type.
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