| Sybase Mirror Activator puts unused DR assets to work
"For today's technology-driven organisations, Mirror Activator can ensure a standby database that can be utilised for query/reporting and maintenance," said Raj Nathan, senior vice president, Information Technology Solutions Group, Sybase, Inc. "The result is improved production performance caused by moving query workload to the standby database. With Sybase's Mirror Activator, we enable the mirrored data to be fully utilised for everyday reporting or maintenance, and the warm standby database significantly shortens recovery times." "Both synchronous disk mirroring and asynchronous transaction replication are common ways to manage data backup between primary and standby sites. But the bandwidth requirements of mirroring and the lack of 'real time' replication in transactional replication are potential hurdles to achieving a cost-effective disaster recovery architecture that also safeguards the currency of the standby data," said Bill North, IDC research director for storage software. "Sybase Mirror Activator takes an innovative 'middle way' by combining the best elements of these two strategies, with the dual goals of ensuring transactional integrity and reducing strain on the network." Sybase Mirror Activator allows customers to: * Increase data availability. With the warm standby database, a secondary site is always available and failover of applications can be accomplished in seconds instead of hours. * Reduced network bandwidth costs. Organisations can lower the required bandwidth by up to 50 percent, dramatically reducing TCO. * Improve return on assets. The standby database is always online and available for read-only client applications like reporting and analysis, improving the ROA for disaster recovery hardware. www.sybase.com/mirroractivator
•Date:
22nd June 2004 • Region: N.America/World
•Type: Article •Topic:
IT continuity |
