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Falconstor Disaster Recovery Solutions

Provide business continuity and protect mission-critical data in the event of a site failure

North American Systems can delivers disaster recovery through its CORE|UX storage servers. Featuring FalconStor IPStor software, this disaster recovery solution includes:

• Remote IP-based replication - replicate only delta changes from your databases
• Asynchronous Mirroring - real-time fault-tolerant storage volume mirroring
• FileSafe - protect remote host-based systems and workstations by replicating file-level data
• DiskSafe - protect remote host-based systems and workstations by replicating entire local disks to remote sites

We can also assist with helping you set up RPOs (recovery point objectives), and RTOs (recovery time objectives) for your business, based on the size of database and the frequency and amount your data changes, and needs to be accessed.

Pre-Disaster

Pre-assign LUNs to prevent chaos - IPStor allows you to pre-assign a replica to be a hot-standby, to be promoted to primary status if disaster strikes. The pre-assigned LUN automatically takes over and eliminates the guesswork involved in deciding which replica should be assigned to which standby host

Fast initial synchronization - sometimes line-speeds make the primary disk synchronization too slow. For example, if your primary volume is 5TB, initial synching takes well over 31 hours at 45 Mb/second (to get 45Mb/s, you need a DS3 line). You can mirror-and-ship data by disk or backup the image via tape, and physically transfer the data for initial synchronization. The IPStor software automatically scans for differences and syncs up the differences.

If A Disaster Occurs

Sudden Disaster - If a sudden disaster occurs, recovery times and data loss are minimal with a CORE|UX storage solution from North American Systems, and can be set up to be automated. IPStor's software defends against the possibility that you are in the middle of replication during the disaster, by storing changes in a separate area, and not changing the actual replica until the entire data set is retrieved and confirmed.

Rolling Disaster - sometimes a primary data site may be gradually failing, due to data corruption, viruses, or human error. Legacy replication products, such as Veritas Volume Manager or File Replicator, or NSI Double-take, do not keep historical track of replication data, making sites utilizing that software very vulnerable to rolling disasters. IPStor software journals all historical replication data using its TimeMark option, so you can roll you databases and files back to a specific point in time.

So, if a rolling disaster does occur to your data, you can review these snapshots and go back until you find a good state of the data, and sometimes go back weeks, in terms of rollbacks.

Minimize Data Loss

Asynchronous mirroring can be used in your DR plan, to provide a low-loss mirror copy of your primary, minimize your downtime by utilizing the replica for an instant start, so business can continue, and then you can synch with the mirror, to minimize loss of transaction data.