| Storactive releases LiveServ for Exchange
Complementary to IT organisations' existing backup processes, LiveServ overcomes the limitations of traditional tape-based backup products by eliminating backup windows and recovering recent data up to the moment of loss. This means companies may, for example, safely reverse the effects of virus attacks and benefit from the near-instant recovery of an accidentally deleted mailbox data. "Storactive LiveServ takes a new approach to data protection, combining the benefits of both scheduled backup and real-time replication, but adding capabilities that eliminate the vulnerabilities of both," said Bill North, research director of storage software at IDC. "For instance, LiveServ's ability to rapidly recover downed Exchange servers, while excluding corrupt log files, gives IT administrators the power to restore recent data up to the point of failure, regardless of the cause of failure. This goes beyond what traditionally has been thought possible and may spur organisations to explore new possibilities in protecting their critical e-mail server data." LiveServ employs real-time technology to automatically and continuously back up data as it is changed, thus eliminating windows of vulnerability between scheduled backups and ensuring protected data is always current. Its disk-to-disk backup enables fast, transparent protection, and, unlike simple mirroring, LiveServ captures every version of every message, so that any version can be recovered. LiveServ's point-of-failure rollback system enables administrators to recover data up to the moment a loss occurred, even if Exchange's logs are corrupted or destroyed. This facilitates the complete reversal of the effects of viruses, human error, and hardware, software or system failures. What's more, recent data can be recovered up to the point of failure, while the server is up and running. With LiveServ, administrators can quickly restore everything from a single e-mail message to an entire information store. To minimise network traffic and storage capacity requirements, LiveServ eliminates redundancy at both the file and block level. This means only changed ‘zones’ of data are backed up, and duplicate copies of e-mail attachments (which typically make up the bulk of e-mail storage) are collapsed even across multiple Exchange servers. This increases backup speed and transparency, allowing LiveServ to perform object-level backups for entire user groups continuously (taking no extra time). Pricing and availability
•Date:
6th November 2003 •Region: N.America •Type:
Article •Topic: IT
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