Replication Software Solutions

Flexible cloud replication services solutions for small to medium businesses Recently named “Best in Class” for replication in the DCIG 2012 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, the IceSTORM OS on IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances supports synchronous and asynchronous replication (continuous and periodic), and supports all four types of snapshots (AoW, CoW, Full Copy and Split Mirror) providing a truly flexible and nimble storage solution for your cloud computing approach (local or remote, bi-directional).

IceWEB IceSTORM OS

Flexible Snapshot Capabilities

IceWEB’s IceSTORM OS gives organizations the ability to manage snapshots and then utilize them once they are created. Using the IceSTORM OS organizations may:

• Create snapshots in real time or based upon a preset schedule
• Manually initiate a snapshot at any time
• Create a consistency group by identifying a group of volumes associated with a particular host or application and then initiating a snapshot across of all those volumes simultaneously
• Read from the snapshot to do a backup or perform a search to comply with an eDiscovery request
• Convert an existing snapshot from read-only to read/write or create a read/write snapshot so the data on the snapshot may be read from and written to during testing and development

Supports Unlimited Snapshots

IceWEB’s snapshot feature can theoretically support the creation of an unlimited number of snapshots, thus reducing the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) both locally and in the cloud.

Replication for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and High Availability

Having both asynchronous and synchronous replication natively available on IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances opens the door for organizations to explore business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability and even new data protection options that were typically beyond their means.

By continuously replicating data over a TCP/IP network using IceWEB’s asynchronous replication option, organizations may create a near real-time copy of the volume or volumes from another IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance.

Once data is replicated to a second system, multiple use cases emerge for how it may then be used.

Replication for High Availability of Mission Critical Applications

The synchronous replication found on the IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances also facilitates the introduction of application high availability. By using IceWEB’s synchronous replication and application failover and failback between systems, application processing may continue with minimal or no interruption in service.

Replication Software Licensing Included on all IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances

By including the replication software with all IceWEB Storage Appliances, organizations are free to use IceWEB’s replication software as they see fit, enabling them to use replication for their cloud storage approaches in ways they might not have otherwise anticipated if bound by separate licensing structures.

Replication across All IceWEB Unified Storage Appliances

What ultimately makes IceWEB’s Unified Storage Appliances affordable and practical for cloud storage approaches is that organizations may use its asynchronous and synchronous replication software to replicate data between any IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance.

Using IceWEB, organizations can begin to explore the possibility of placing an IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance with a cloud provider and replicating data to that cloud provider. This eliminates the need for the organization to have a dedicated secondary site and minimizes its cost to implement a viable DR plan.