| Asigra reduces complexity of multi-site backup with new televaulting for enterprises
“The traditional tape backup model was designed to protect information inside a corporate data centre and it works well within that limitation; however, today¹s distributed enterprises need a data protection solution that eliminates the technological limitations and outrageous agent-based licensing costs of stretching a single-site backup architecture into a multi-site environment,” said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. “Asigra addresses this requirement by giving IT managers the best of both worlds: much lower operational costs with dramatically improved end-user service levels.” By adopting a capacity-based licensing model, Asigra eliminates the fees and management costs involved in installing and managing agents, dramatically reducing the cost of enterprise backup. Asigra Televaulting enables backup and recovery for distributed data as a utility service within an enterprise, and includes all the functions, budgetary controls, chargeback billing system, features and tools required. With Asigra software, the corporate IT department can effectively become an internal service provider, and charge internal departments for capacity consumed. Asigra combines the utility service provisioning approach with a disk-based agentless architecture. Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises requires just one free software application to be installed on a Windows or Linux machine at each remote location. The Asigra customer pays only for the aggregate amount of compressed data across the enterprise network. Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises is architected with grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load. Asigra allows organisations to deploy distributed backup without changing their existing data centre backup infrastructure. At each remote site an Asigra Televaulting DS-Client discovers all servers, desktops and laptops connected to the local network and automates the backup of all local data assets. Before the backup data set is transmitted to the corporate data centre, Asigra Televaulting software analyses the data, finds new and changed file blocks, eliminates duplicate files and further compresses the residue bytes to ensure the backup set is as compact as possible. The software then encrypts the data before sending it over an IP-WAN connection to a centralised Asigra Televaulting DS-System server located in the corporate data centre, which consolidates backup data from all distributed sites. That DS-System server is then protected just like any other server within the data centre as part of the organization’s ongoing data protection policies. Moreover, the back-end DS-System server integrates directly with third-party ILM solutions from the major storage vendors. Asigra Televaulting for Enterprises is currently available with prices starting at $11,250 USD.
•Date:
5th August 2004 • Region: N.America •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
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