Falconstor Business Continuity

For nonstop availability of data

North American Systems can offer superior vendor- and platform-neutral solutions to keep your business-critical applications, files, and databases up and running 24x7. The NASI Storage Core runs on Linux and utilizes the FalconStor IPStor to provide end-to-end protection of your data, and reduce recovery times.

This business continuity data includes the IPStor:

• Active-active failover - get two NASI Storage Core servers onsite to reduce points-of-failure
• Synchronous mirroring - fault-tolerance of storage drives and volumes over local distances
• Asynchronous mirroring - fault-tolerance of storage drives and volumes over long distances
• TimeMark® - disk-based journaling to provide point-in-time snapshots of data to protect against soft errors
• SnapShot Agents for databases -minimize quiesce times, and ensure transactional integrity with these application- and database-specific snapshot agents
• Backup and Baremetal Recovery - boot from the LAN in case of boot disk failure, with any device in your network
• DynaPath® - multi-pathing and load-balancing feature to intelligently re-route data, in case any component in the application server I/O path fails
• NIC Express - eliminate points-of-failure in any server or application, adding redundancy to the edges of your network
• Message Recovery for Microsoft Exchange - automate the recovery of your important Microsoft Exchange message stores, and recover mailboxes, messages, and volumes quickly and easily

Utilizing a combination of these solutions can virtually eliminate downtime, data loss, and points-of-failure in your network. North American Systems can help you design the solution that best meets your needs, based on business requirements, and budget for the project. To schedule an appointment, email sales@nasi.com.

1. Daily incremental and weekly complete backups are the only way to guarantee you’ll always have a current copy of your most critical data. The backed-up data should be securely stored off-site, someplace where it can be quickly and easily retrieved. For a growing number of companies, remote backup services are helping ensure that a scheduled backup is never missed.

2. Evaluate and make the necessary arrangements for an alternate location where operations can resume in the event your physical location is destroyed or damaged. Depending on your business needs, this can be:

• A cold site, which is an otherwise empty location that has all the necessary connectivity and environmental controls so you can relocate equipment and employees.
• A hot site, which is essentially a data center or satellite location that duplicates your company’s set-up in terms of hardware, software and data access, and gives your employees a place to go so business can resume quickly. Companies for which 24x7 up time is imperative typically use hot sites and they will often deploy a team to the hot site so operations can continue, uninterrupted, during times of disaster.
• Active load balancing, which is the sharing of data between two or more data centers in real-time, allowing a secondary location to automatically pick up the flow of data with little or no perceptible difference to users. Active load balancing is ideal for companies that can’t afford any downtime for any reason.

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