Multi-Site Replication Software Reduces the Complexity of Managing
Real-Time Content Distribution and Disaster Recovery For Heterogeneous
Storage Environments
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BakBone Software®
(Pink Sheets:BKBO), a global provider of heterogeneous integrated data
protection solutions, today announced NetVault: Replicator version 5.0,
a real-time data replication software solution. Incorporating unique new
features that streamline data protection management, NetVault:
Replicator 5.0 gives customers enterprise-class capabilities to help
plan and prepare for disaster recovery scenarios. With broad platform
support for Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments, NetVault:
Replicator 5.0 provides an improved user experience for Windows
customers, as well as more comprehensive functionality over local or
wide area networks. Using NetVault: Replicator 5.0, customers benefit
from up-to-the-second content distribution for file systems, as well as
disaster avoidance and recovery, at a fraction of the cost of
hardware-based solutions.
"In today's 24x7
business environments, companies cannot afford operational downtime, nor
can they tolerate data loss," said Jeff
Drescher, director of product management, BakBone Software. "With
this latest upgrade of NetVault: Replicator, we save resource
constrained administrators both time and money in managing their complex
heterogeneous environments while protecting vital server and remote
office data. This ensures the maximum level of business data and
application availability."
Offering automated, real-time, and scheduled replication operations,
NetVault: Replicator 5.0 is an essential disaster recovery component for
data availability and delivers the redundancy required by today's
global commercial enterprises. Enabling bi-directional operations and
flexible configuration options across Linux, Solaris and Windows
platforms, this latest version reliably, efficiently and in real-time
replicates data and distributes content between multiple distributed
sites over any IP network.
Unlike competitive replication solutions which only support homogeneous
environments and lack integration with backup technology, NetVault:
Replicator offers the industry's most
comprehensive cross-platform replication between different heterogeneous
environments. Integral to BakBone's strategy
of enabling Integrated Data Protection using customers'
existing infrastructure investments, NetVault: Replicator integrates
with BakBone's award-winning flagship backup
and recovery software, NetVault: Backup to keep its servers highly
available. This eliminates the need for multiple point products to
simplify and streamline data protection management. Advanced reporting
and monitoring APIs will also enable seamless integration with future
versions of BakBone's NetVault: Report
Manager software, giving administrators the ability to monitor and
report on replication jobs while helping to ensure continuous
availability of mission-critical data and applications.
In addition to a completely redesigned Windows-based graphical user
interface (GUI) which allows rapid access to management functions and
system status thereby easing administration, new key features in
NetVault: Replicator 5.0 include:
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Enhanced Platform Support -
Increased flexibility with added platform support for Windows Storage
Server 2003 and Solaris x86-64 environments, bi-directional
replication for Windows, and expanded cluster support for VERITAS
Cluster Suite, Heartbeat and Red Hat Cluster Suite.
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Higher Performance Data Movement -
Offers a higher performance journaling data store which uses less disk
space and fewer system resources to reduce server overhead, especially
in data intensive collaborative environments.
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Capacity Planning - Provides
capabilities to accurately simulate the impact of replication on a
production environment for efficient deployment planning.
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Accelerated Recovery - Using a
cluster manager-like option, recovery of file systems is streamlined
to provide a higher level of network data availability.
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Remote Office Data Protection -
Offers a destination target pattern masking capability that
automatically organizes data and simplifies restores from NetVault:
Backup tapes directly to the source machine to provide centralized
backup of branch or remote offices.
At Secure-24, a Michigan-based leading provider of information security
and managed hosting services, maintaining 24x7 access and availability
of business critical data and applications across multiple customer
sites is the life-blood of the organization. According to Volker Straub,
COO of Secure-24, "With multiple customers
depending on Secure-24 to maintain continuous data availability, we
needed a data protection solution that would centralize administration,
offer high performance and scalability, while supporting multiple
heterogeneous storage environments. With advanced functionality
including real-time content distribution and disaster recovery,
NetVault: Replicator enables us to easily protect and manage our
customers' data environments. Using NetVault:
Replicator, we offer our customers the peace of mind that their data is
safe and accessible when and where they need it."
To minimize administrative costs and reduce the complexity of managing
data across multiple locations, NetVault: Replicator 5.0 replicates
disparate server data (including branch offices and remote office sites
and business units) to a single location. This enables administrators to
reliably protect data from multiple servers or sites by consolidating
backups and centralizing data for disaster recovery. For environments
where multiple servers must maintain synchronized data (such as Web
servers, rich media servers for video clips, or supporting remote office
content updates), NetVault: Replicator offers data distribution by
providing automatic content synchronization of any size data storage
environment independent of applications. This allows administrators to
set the replication schedule with NetVault: Replicator OnDemand, pick
source and target servers and manage bandwidth.
Free 30-day Product Download
BakBone's NetVault: Replicator is available
now for download. For more information or to download a fully-functional
30-day evaluation copy of any product, please visit: http://www.bakbone.com/products/downloads/
Pricing and Availability
BakBone's NetVault: Replicator product suite
is currently available. Pricing for NetVault: Replicator per host node
starts at $1,499 for Windows, $2,999 for Linux, and $5,999 for Unix. For
more information on the BakBone reseller partner nearest you or to
purchase any of the NetVault: Replicator products, please visit BakBone's
web site at http://www.bakbone.com/products/how_to_buy/.
About Secure-24, Inc.
Secure-24 is a premier security e-business provider providing its
customers with a fully-managed security and hosting infrastructure. We
specialize in managed hosting and disaster recovery services for
enterprise-level, business-critical applications. These environments
cannot afford to have an outage for any reason. They can also not afford
to suffer the effects of Trojans, worms, hacking, etc. We unite
best-of-breed security hardware and software with our unparalleled
services for an "end-to-end" security solution. We own and operate Class
V Datacenters in multiple locations to provide a highly-secure,
highly-available, failover-capable environment for our services. Such a
business model allows us to take advantage of economies of scale in
providing high-end solutions at minimal cost. To learn more, please
visit www.secure-24.com or e-mail
us at info@secure-24.com.
About BakBone Software, Inc.
BakBone Software is a leading international data protection solution
provider that develops and distributes heterogeneous data backup,
restore, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting software
for network storage and open-systems environments. BakBone delivers
scalable solutions that address the complex demands of large enterprise
environments, as well as small- to medium-sized businesses. Founded in
2000, BakBone products are used by Fortune 1000 corporations and
domestic and international government entities. Distributed through a
select global network of strategic partners, resellers and solution
providers, interested companies can learn more information about
BakBone's products and services and its newly introduced IDP vision at www.bakbone.com
or email info@bakbone.com.
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Contacts
BakBone Software
Dani Kenison, 858-795-7584
dani.kenison@bakbone.com
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