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InMage Systems releases new version of DR-Scout disaster-recovery
software
27 October 2008
InMage Systems has released DR-Scout 4.2, of its flagship disaster
recovery and business continuity software. DR-Scout 4.2 is an enhanced
version of their software and further helps companies reduce cost and
complexity in business continuity and disaster recovery. In addition,
DR-Scout improves recovery time and recovery point objectives across
heterogeneous storage environments.
DR-Scout’s functionality goes beyond traditional replication and
mirroring products, offering customers real-time, block-level data
protection with granular file rollback. In addition, DR-Scout enables
application-consistent recovery and push-button failover. The software
architecture offloads physical and virtual server protection to minimise
production server cycles.
This unique combination provides a superior combination of RTO, RPO
and ROI. DR-Scout can scale from lower cost application-specific
recovery scenarios, such as Microsoft Exchange or SQL Server, up to and
including departmental or enterprise-wide recovery of a virtualised data
centre.
“DR-Scout is a powerful and proven disaster recovery solution for
physical and virtual environments,” said Rajeev Atluri, CTO and SVP of
Engineering. “The new release extends support for all the major server
virtualisation platforms, including VMware, Citrix XenServer and
Microsoft Hyper-V. DR-Scout for Server Virtualisation allows for a
virtualised source, target or both, enabling customers to protect
physical servers as well as use a virtualised server as the replication
target. The result is a very high level of application protection and
availability at a much lower total cost of ownership. Our customers have
found that DR-Scout provides powerful data protection within their
virtualised environments.”
Additional features include Profiler and Analyser, which assist
disaster recovery and storage managers in capacity planning for storage
and the wide area network (WAN) circuits that connect the primary
production and secondary recovery facilities. Bandwidth utilisation can
be adjusted based on the time of day, and DR-Scout also accommodates WAN
outages by queuing data changes until the connection is re-established.
DR-Scout is platform-independent and offers heterogeneous storage
support for DAS, SAN, NAS and iSCSI.
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