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The Future of Data Protection in the Virtual Data Centre
By Christopher L. Poelker, Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, FalconStor Software
Storage virtualisation for the sake of storage virtualisation is just not enough these days. What businesses really need are solutions that not only provision storage more efficiently, but that can virtualise, protect, migrate, dedupe, encrypt, replicate, recover, and archive any data source in real-time via policy.
What this entails is building an optimised suite of integrated data services on a common platform, creating an “optimised data services“ utility model, or ODS utility. This is created by virtualising existing data sets, storage, and servers to enable physical abstraction and flexible data movement between compute and storage elements. Once virtualised, the ODS platform should allow the creation of policies that enforce specific service levels for explicit or pooled datasets.
The ODS solution engine should be able to provide thin provisioning capabilities for enhancing storage utilisation. Capacity expansion for running applications should occur in real time and on demand. All data should be continually protected requiring the solution to automatically apply efficiency in data storage and movement through de-duplication and sub-block-level monitoring.
The solution must also be able to integrate at the application level and provide a simple means to monitor and recover any application across any platform. Since protection is continuous and policy based, there would be no requirement for backup applications, clients, servers, media, or processes, which could save huge sums of money and time. The engine must also be intelligent and able to seamlessly work with or even enhance other protection and virtualisation solutions.
A comprehensive ODS utility would need to provide built-in encryption and off-site replication of all data sets for risk mitigation. It should be flexible enough to accommodate existing and newer protocols. Recovery from failure or disaster should be simple and fast. It needs to be implemented intuitively and rapidly without requiring weeks or months of professional services to make it work.
Companies looking to optimise their data services or move to a cloud computing model should take a critical look at available solutions to avoid the scenario of tying together software from multiple vendors into a Frankenstein-like science project. Be sure to look for a platform that provides all the capabilities mentioned above, to enable fast implemention with the knowledge that everything is certified, supportable, and can be managed globally from a single console.
“As the market leader in disk-based data protection with a TOTALLY Open™ architecture, we deliver proven, comprehensive, technology-independent solutions that enable the continuous availability of business-critical data with speed, integrity, and simplicity. Built upon the award-winning IPStor® virtualisation platform, our solutions, including the industry’s leading VTL, facilitate disaster recovery and remote replication with 100per cent data integrity for thousands of customers worldwide,” said Simon Ng, FalconStor Regional Director of South Asia Pacific.
For more information about FalconStor and how its solutions can help your company, visit www.falconstor.com
Or email to: infoSEA@falconstor.com.
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On 19 April 2011 ali wrote:
I want this paper as pdf form.