Downtime poses a threat to business continuity for companies of all sizes. Each hour of downtime can cost millions of dollars and prolonged downtime can even lead to end of business. Given time and effort, normal business operations can be restored, but a damaged reputation may never be recovered.

To ensure the highest data availability while streamlining backup and recovery tasks, Infortrend embeds advanced snapshot and replication capabilities in its storage systems. Snapshot functions are tailored to provide instantaneous point-in-time copies of data without disrupting online applications. With copy-on-write design, snapshots protect production data from accidental modifications, deletions and corruptions with minimal capacity requirements and performance overhead. By accessing a snapshot copy at the desired recovery point, users can immediately restore system availability from data disruption.

Replication functions (volume copy/mirror and remote replication) further protect data from source volume failure and disasters. With replication functions, users can copy data within a single storage system or between systems in IP or FC SANs at different sites. When source data fails due to system malfunction or disasters, the disk-based remote copy can be leveraged to restart service in minutes. To further ensure the integrity of the remote data, Infortrend allows users to protect the remote copy with snapshot technology. Granular snapshot images can help restore the corrupt remote copy in seconds when the copy is required to resume business service.

Features

Benefits

Minimized unplanned Downtime
  • Reduce recovery time after a system or source volume fails or a unforeseen events occur. Intact data copies within the same system or at remote sites can be immediately used to support applications.

Increased availability
  • Restore files and roll back data in seconds. Data is protected from accidental or malicious losses to ensure the highest system availability

Flexible data copy deployment
  • Allow flexible configuration for backup frequency and synchronization options. Users can deploy different levels of protection depending on data importance

Affordable data protection
  • Achieve enterprise-class protection at affordable price points. Companies with tight budgets do not need to compromise on data protection

Simplified management
  • User-friendly GUI and automation mechanisms such as scheduling and capacity control. Minimal manual intervention is required to streamline backup and recovery processes

This solution is available on all or selected models in the following product families. For detailed information on availability, please refer to individual product pages.


  • ESVA Family - Ideal for Fibre Channel or IP SAN applications of mid-range to large enterprises
  • EonStor DS Family - Entry-level storage solutions delivering excellent price-performance and advanced data protection