Fact: Your Data Requires Backup and Disaster Recovery
Your clients say so. The law says so. And you see how distributing your data centres is beneficial to your business. So why not store your data in the safest, fastest, and most comprehensive data network available today? It's possible with EMC VPLEX and Optical Networking from leading suppliers of Metro DWDM products and it's the best method of data replication technology offered to date.
The Storage Wide Area Network (SAN) Environment
For 20 years the model for data backup has been simple: store the data in one location, back it up or replicate it to another. The technical name is SWAN or Storage Wide Area Networking, and it's widely deployed today. The traditional Disaster Recovery model requires two data centres connected to a fiber optic network; two SAN's one for computing, and one for storage replication. If an emergency takes place at one facility, the second facility will be available to take over. The model looks like this:
However, traditional storage replication networking has a few disadvantages:
- Data centres are often located within a relatively small geographic area; a natural disaster could result in the loss of all data.
- One data center is used for computing and production, the other (remote) is used for storage replication and backup, which means that, even though both data centers are being used, only one is being put to work.
- The data in storage at the remote data center is not readily available for mining or analysis.
- In today's environment, the importance of data and its protection are paramount; sometimes a single copy of data is not enough and a 3rd copy is required to meet business needs
EMC VPLEX: Data Replication and virtualization for Tomorrow
It's time to move to a safer, more efficient method of data storage. VPLEX provides the availability of a third or more data centres, allowing for wider (and more secure) geographic dispersal of data, an additional copy of stored information, and the ability to manipulate data across the three locations in real time. VPLEX enabled network topologies are represented in the diagram:
There's more to the VPLEX than just adding another storage facility. The VPLEX network allows the computing capabilities of all three data centres to be used simultaneously, resulting in more efficient use of each centre, as well as a higher total output of computing possibilities. Key benefits include:
- Geographic Distribution: Spreading your data over a larger geographic area means your information is safer and more accessible.
- Computing Power: The additional Data Center, combined with the newest replication technology for distributed computing, can increase your computing capabilities by up to 50%
- Data Access: The EMC VPLEX plus DWDM equipment provides you with the ability to run an application in one Data Center, analyze data in the second, and back up both activities across all three Data Centres, all in real time.
When making a decision on what equipment to purchase
Superna offers the following testing services to address the various Data Centre replication topologies and technologies, focusing on the unique network and data replication solutions enabled by EMC products.
- SAN Interoperability service covers EMC SRDF replication solutions as an eLAB pre-qualification test solution to allow vendors to gain EMC matrix publication with a one stop simple turnkey service.
- VPLEX Interoperability service covers EMC VPLEX replication solutions as en eLAB pre-qualification qualification test solution to allow vendors to gain EMC matrix publication with a one stop simple turnkey service
- Maintenance contract - Blocks of lab time can be purchased to allow vendors to debug any issues found during testing, replicate a customer issue in the lab or execute custom test plans for collateral (white paper, solution briefs). Maintenance contracts include test engineers with storage and Optical networking equipment skills.
- Design Consultation Service - This custom service provides access to equipment design consultation based on years of product design experience and vendor Interoperability testing results. If you want the scope on how to build a bullet proof transport solution for storage replication, this service will provide you with expert advice to build a better product.
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