Features - Storage Innovations:
EMC REDEFINES ENTERPRISE REPLICATION, DATA MOBILITY
EMC Corp introduced innovative new enterprise replication and data mobility
software that allows customers to better protect and migrate their most
important information.
Using these new capabilities, customers will be able to easily move and
replicate data among heterogeneous storage systems and remotely and locally
replicate their information more effectively than ever. The new set of tools,
which run on the market-leading EMC Symmetrix DMX Series of networked storage
systems, is the broadest in the industry for optimizing the protection and
placement of data as part of an information lifecycle management (ILM)
strategy. EMC is the leader in data replication, which it pioneered in 1994
with the introduction of EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), still the
most widely used replication technology in the world.
The announcements mark the most comprehensive set of enterprise replication
enhancements in EMC's history. They include:
EMC Open Replicator for Symmetrix, innovative new software that
provides
high-performance, storage-independent replication for multi-vendor storage
environments. Customers can now copy, relocate and incrementally update remote
data volumes, at high speeds, between various storage systems with no
application performance impact. Customers will be able to use EMC Open
Replicator for Symmetrix to replicate and recover data between systems from
EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems. The enabling software runs
entirely within the EMC Symmetrix DMX array and does not require additional
hardware. It can be used for:
Data Mobility - distributing or collecting data volumes for
distributed/parallel processing and/or centralized data collection and
backup. Remote Data Vaulting - copying data volumes to remote storage for
recovery purposes. Data Migration - online relocation of data volumes from existing
storage arrays during technology upgrades and consolidations.
Other unique features enable refreshing of remote volumes by sending only
incremental changes and the ability to migrate volumes to the DMX "on demand,"
allowing applications to be brought online before the entire data set has been
relocated.
EMC SRDF/Star, a unique three-site business continuity solution that
allows
customers to replicate their data over unlimited distances among three data
centers. SRDF/Star extends the concurrent synchronous and asynchronous
replication capabilities of SRDF by enabling any two of the three data centers
to automatically continue replicating data in the event that one becomes
unavailable. A customer mirroring data between a primary data center in New
York and secondary data centers in New Jersey and London would be able to
continue replicating between New Jersey and London in the event of an outage
at the New York center, ensuring continuous protection and minimizing data
loss in the event of a multi-site outage. EMC SRDF Mode Change feature, another industry first that allows
customers
to easily switch from real-time synchronous replication to near-real-time
asynchronous replication on demand. Customers using synchronous replication
can now switch modes to reduce bandwidth costs and improve application
performance when needed. EMC SRDF with VMware qualification helps customers greatly reduce the
costs
of maintaining multiple servers at a secondary site for business continuity
purposes. SRDF with VMware eliminates the need to maintain a duplicate set of
costly servers at a limited use recovery site. Now, VMware can be used to
create "virtual servers" at the remote site, each with access to real-time
replicas of the Symmetrix production data, enabling a rapid restart from the
secondary site at a fraction of the cost. EMC TimeFinder/Clone expands the in-array replication capabilities of
EMC's
TimeFinder software and gives customers greater flexibility and choice to meet
business demands. With TimeFinder/Clone, customers can now concurrently make
up to 16 copies of their data and protect the copies using economical RAID5
protection, while ensuring consistent replicas across multiple arrays. With
TimeFinder/Clone, EMC customers can make more copies for less, enabling wider
use for shortening backup windows, providing instant recoveries, accelerating
application testing and enabling parallel processing. EMC mainframe replication compatibility features are delivered as a
result
of a previously announced licensing agreement with IBM. EMC is able to offer
customers mainframe replication capabilities that are equivalent to those from
IBM, including EMC Compatible Flash for internal point-in-time copies, EMC
Compatible Peer for remote replication and EMC Compatible Extended for
asynchronous mainframe data replication. These products allow mainframe
customers to deploy EMC Symmetrix-based replication technology that is
compatible with IBM-specific functions provided by FlashCopy(R), PPRC and
XRC.
"For the past decade, EMC has defined enterprise replication. Today, we're
moving that definition even further," said David Donatelli, EMC executive vice
president of storage platforms. "For our customers, functionality is the main
decision driver. They've come to depend on EMC's advanced technology built on
our proven capabilities. All of the new features announced today build on that
foundation and are at the heart of an ILM infrastructure."
Carl Greiner, senior vice president and service director of META Group, a
leading provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting,
added, "Business continuity requirements continue to evolve, and are more
demanding than ever due to increasing economic and regulatory pressures. The
ability to deploy new replication solutions on existing EMC Symmetrix DMX
systems addresses a major issue for customers who want to protect their
investment in storage platforms while reducing the cost of protecting and
replicating their information."
About EMC
EMC Corp is a provider of products, services and solutions for information
storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from
their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the
information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be
found at www.emc.com.
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