| LightSand HP and FLE create 1,000km synchronous mirroring solution
"Organisations around the world are recognising the value of long distance data connectivity for providing advanced capabilities like disaster recovery, business continuity, data replication, data migration, regulatory compliance, asset management and global data availability," said LightSand CEO Philip Black. "Through our work with HP and FLE we have now demonstrated that these functions can be successfully deployed across distances as great as 1,000 kilometres." A pair of LightSand S-2500 storage extension gateways served as the bridges between two storage area networks. These gateways were linked through DWDM switches that directly drove the long distance connection across 1,000km of fibre optic cabling. HP provided the SAN equipment, which consisted of an HP EVA storage system, HP Continuous Access mirroring software, servers and PCs to simulate a large multi-user environment and Brocade switches to form the SAN fabrics. The entire system was integrated and managed by FLE, a French storage systems integrator, with assistance from LightSand and HP. All testing took place at HP Facilities under the supervision of the HP France's Storage Division.
•Date:
2nd June 2004 •Region: W.Europe •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
continuity |
