| PlateSpin unveils ‘break-through’ disaster recovery alternative
According to PlateSpin the introduction of this functionality ‘represents a strategic response to growing interest in disaster recovery as a high-value application of virtualization technology’ and it will ‘transform the way data centers approach disaster recovery planning’. PlateSpin launched the new products at VMworld 2006, VMware's virtualization event attended by over 5,000 IT professionals, developers and managers. "Data centers have historically allocated the lion's share of the disaster recovery budget to only the most critical server assets, leaving hundreds of servers under-protected," said Stephen Pollack, PlateSpin founder and CEO. "More than 2000 PlateSpin customers now have an affordable disaster recovery alternative that provides RTOs and RPOs that approach high-end clustering levels at a fraction of the cost." PowerConvert is a software solution that streams servers between physical hardware, blade infrastructures, virtual machines and image archives over the network. PlateSpin PowerRecon is agentless software that measures, analyses and determines the optimal fit between server resource supply and workload demand. Together, PowerConvert and PowerRecon provide end-to-end continuous server consolidation and disaster recovery solutions leveraging virtualization technologies. New features in the new releases of PowerRecon and PowerConvert: * Create disaster recovery plans that match workloads and resources to create an optimal virtual recovery environment using PowerRecon. * Seamlessly transfer plans from PowerRecon to PowerConvert for automated implementation of a complete end-to-end optimized disaster recovery strategy. * PowerConvert's new incremental transfer functionality enables customers to perform an initial full system replication of a physical production server into a virtual recovery environment, and then propagate changes at user-defined intervals to maintain synchronicity between production and recovery environments. * Built-in recovery ‘Fire Drills’ that leverage the features of virtualization, enable customers to efficiently test disaster recovery scenarios to ensure DR plan integrity. * Consolidated recovery environments based on virtual infrastructure eliminate the need to purchase and maintain redundant hardware and multiple operating system licenses. * Virtual-to-physical conversions make it possible for customers to rapidly migrate a virtual recovery server back onto any physical hardware platform once the original platform failure has been repaired. * Integration with 3rd party data replication tools also allows for effective restoration of more mission critical servers in ways not previously possible.
•Date: 9th Nov 2006• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity |
