BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery)

Big Replication

93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington). It is no wonder that enterprises, both big and small, are obsessed not only with protecting their data but also ensuring that the data can be retrieved in a timely fashion.

Protecting data that is the lifeblood of the organization and ensuring that business applications are always available are mandatory requirements for companies of all sizes, in any industry. For large enterprises and government agencies, system or site outages can literally “break the bank” as each minute or hour of downtime can lead to lost revenues, lost customers, and tarnished reputations.

Replication is a key high-availability and data protection application to ensure that BCDR goals are met. The overall costs associated with replication keep rising as companies face having to reduce the amount of data at risk of loss (measured as RPO, or Recovery Point Objective). All this while total data volume keeps ballooning with no end to the growth in sight.

Key Challenges

• WAN connectivity is expensive for replication
• Replication traffic growing at 30-50% per year
• Making painful compromises on which applications to replicate vs. not
• Periodic WAN upgrades are costly both in capital expenses and complexity
• Added bandwidth does little for ill effects of latency and under-utilization of links

Benefits We Deliver

• Reduce your RPO by up to 5x and exceed your SLA
• Significantly improve the overall network cost of replication by drastically cutting ongoing bandwidth costs
• Protect more critical applications, databases, and storage by reducing current replication traffic payloads
• Guarantee an optimal use of your high performance WAN link with maximum, sustained throughput across any distance
• Ensure that critical replication jobs get done, even in the event of WAN congestion

Backups

Greater operational efficiencies are sought after when it comes to remote backups. New disk-to-disk backup technologies make it possible for companies to protect more data in less time than ever thought possible. With modern WAN-based backup, enterprises can effectively adapt to data growth by streamlining the management of hundreds of terabytes to tens of petabytes of information.

The success for large backup jobs are typically defined by backup transfer windows and ease-to-recover quickly. In short, customers want to backup fast and recover even faster. For the network, the speed of transfer is both a condition of WAN resource allocation and performance.

Key Challenges

• Shrinking backup times from days or many hours to a couple hours or even minutes
• Reducing WAN footprint for backup traffic
• Backup in native formats for faster recovery

Benefits We Deliver

• Reduce all large backup windows by 80-90%
• Move more backup traffic across limited WAN by reducing network capacity requirements
• Use existing WAN to move point-in-time backup copies, batch file transfers, and VMDKs – all at once