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Business Continuity That Means Business
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Replicating your data for fast recovery
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IPStor offers two replication modes: Continuous, which replicates every write, and Periodic, which replicates the most recent write to the block. In addition, IPStor’s MicroScan option examines changed blocks at the disk sector level and replicates only changed sectors rather than entire file system blocks, reducing bandwidth requirements, typically by 70-90%.
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Unprecedented data protection
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Today’s storage challenges are tougher than ever. You’re facing everything from shrinking backup windows and downtime to lost data, capacity underutilization, rising complexity and excessive overhead. But one thing is certain: You need nonstop availability and fast recovery from hardware, software, or network failure. IPStor provides the widest array of business-continuity services to ensure that your mission-critical data is quickly accessible and rapidly recoverable in the event of anything from a small mishap to a major disaster.Today’s storage challenges are tougher than ever. You’re facing everything from shrinking backup windows and downtime to lost data, capacity underutilization, rising complexity and excessive overhead. But one thing is certain: You need nonstop availability and fast recovery from hardware, software, or network failure. IPStor provides the widest array of business-continuity services to ensure that your mission-critical data is quickly accessible and rapidly recoverable in the event of anything from a small mishap to a major disaster.
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High-availability failover options keep your business up and running
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When your system is down, your business is down. That’s why IPStor offers an Active-Active Failover Option that ensures the highest availability. The automatic failover configuration uses two IPStor appliances that continuously monitor each other. If one fails, the other appliance automatically assumes the workload without your intervention.
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Tolerant to a fault
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IPStor offers both synchronous and asynchronous mirroring options to protect your data. The Synchronous Mirroring option protects against the consequences of storage device or channel failure. Drives may be mirrored within and across cabinets for superior fault tolerance. Your data may be stored in data centers miles apart so IPStor’s Asynchronous Mirroring option provides fault tolerance for storage volumes over long distances in near real time.
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Snapshot Agents keep your data in focus
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To ensure the transactional integrity and consistency of your databases, IPStor’s Snapshot Agents communicate directly with messaging systems like Exchange, database systems like Oracle, and even file systems. This ensures that applications can immediately use the TimeMark snapshots for recovery without additional action.
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Multipathing keeps the traffic moving
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IPStor’s Multipathing option ensures the availability of data on Fibre Channel-attached storage, transparently rerouting traffic to a redundant storage path in the event of a failure between the IPStor appliance and the storage pools.
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Choosing the right path
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In the event that an I/O path between storage and the application server fails, IPStor’s DynaPath agent, which runs in the application host, performs multipathing from the host to the IPStor software, maintaining availability.
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Simplicity Saves Time and Money
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Simplified management
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Say goodbye to management cost and complexity. IPStor’s simplified storage management dramatically lowers administration overhead by consolidating storage resources for maximum utilization and efficiency. Plus, IPStor’s centralized interface lets you dynamically provision all your SAN and NAS resources from a single console, eliminating the need to manage storage and backup software for each individual server and workstation.
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Consolidate everything
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IPStor enables you to consolidate not only your heterogeneous storage resources, but also your data centers. IPStor maximizes capacity utilization by consolidating disk resources across all boundaries, including the operating system, cabinet, vendor, connectivity, and interface. It enables you to integrate existing storage with new storage to create both SAN and NAS resources.
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Migrate with ease
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Need to migrate data with little disruption? IPStor’s Network Volume Mirror (NVM) configuration enables fast, safe, real-time data migration with minimal downtime. NVM provides write-split and data pass-through capabilities for continuous, high-performance data-protection and data-migration applications.
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All together now
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IPStor’s Storage Service Enabler Option lets you incorporate existing disks into an IPStor-managed SAN, so you can take advantage of the full suite of IPStor storage services without changing the original disk partitions or volumes and without any data conversion or migration. The Capacity-on-Demand Agent improves utilization through automatic, policy-based storage provisioning, data migration, and compression. The BootIP for Blade Servers option delivers innovative boot over IP services for Windows and Linux-based blade servers, enabling centralized management and rapid system upgrade and recovery, maximizing business continuity and improving ROI.
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The Power of Performance
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Enhanced I/O speeds
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Tired of inadequate I/O performance? IPStor offers a range of performance optimization services that deliver faster data processing, including multipathing, load balancing, and fail-safe caching. IPStor’s Disk Striping option provides RAID 0 software for dramatically improved I/O performance. Disk striping uses standard disk drives to spread the I/O load across all drives in the set, making it ideal for high-performance applications.
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Move into the fast lane
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Need more throughput? The software’s DynaPath Agent and IP Trunking option distribute data along multiple paths, increasing bandwidth for greater throughput and load balancing.
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