SANRAD provides robust, non-disruptive disaster recovery to ensure business continuity across the enterprise. Whether the need is for active/active clustering, automated failover, synchronous mirroring or asynchronous replication, SANRAD offers a comprehensive solution to keep any business running smoothly and cost-effectively.

The Problem

To thrive in today’s 24 x 7 global economy, companies must have continuous access to data. When data is off-line, lost, or unavailable, business comes to a halt, resulting in potentially high lost revenues, negative publicity, and customer outrage. Acquiring, implementing and maintaining a data storage infrastructure that ensures business continuity in the event of system, network, or site failures can be costly and complex.

• Ensuring business continuity across dissimilar operating systems, servers and applications often requires multiple solutions, making it impossible to manage centrally and reliably.
• Validating system redundancy and site recovery is often difficult, leaving many business continuity plans untested and therefore unreliable when they are finally needed.
• Using server-based mirroring and replication products requires special software and licenses for every server. Costs skyrocket as the number of servers grow, and server and LAN performance are crippled.
• Deploying storage-based replication is expensive, requires additional software and hardware, and typically forces use of the same brand and type of storage at all data replication locations.

The Solution

SANRAD’s Global Data Replication (GDR) software with local data mirroring (LDR) and Active /Active V-Switch clustering resides on the V-Switch. It provides a single centrally-managed solution that delivers business continuity in the event of connection, system or complete site outage. As no server or storage replication licenses are needed, companies benefit from significant cost savings.

• Administer multi-site global replication and recovery from a single interface. Test recovery plans with real data at the remote site without disrupting the continuous replication process.
• Synchronously mirror data to other storage systems within the data center or to other buildings within a campus or city center. Maintain exact duplicates of live data between any two, three or four locations to ensure full data recovery and achieve zero RPO (Recovery Point Objective) in the event a storage system or a complete building power outage.
• Replicate data asynchronously over any IP network for remote backup and disaster recovery. Replicate only incremental data changes to eliminate high-speed connection costs. Replicate between two production sites or multiple offices to a single site.
• Use the wizard-based management guide in failover and failback processes to achieve desired RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives). Minimize service interruption time during site migration or full site maintenance for 24/7 business continuity.