Channel Data has released the REO Business
Continuity Appliance (BCA) from its principal, Overland Storage. An ‘all-in-one’
business continuity solution, the REO BCA is designed for both continuous local
backup and remote disaster recovery applications.
It is positioned as a flexible data
replication solution, enabling automated recovery of mission-critical data and
applications at both the local data centre and remote disaster recovery levels.
Kevin Falconer, general manager of Channel
Data, says in the past organisations relied on traditional backups/snapshots as
the basis for their data protection. “This approach alone is inadequate and
susceptible to data loss that can occur between backups. The BCA is designed to
ensure that mission-critical data and applications are always protected.
“Whether you are concerned about email, key
business applications such as ERP, databases, or unstructured files, BCA
provides both local and remote high-performance continuous data protection
based on capacity-optimised replication technology coupled with comprehensive
application awareness,” says Falconer.
“The BCA enables ‘point in time’
restoration as well as event-based restorations to be undertaken. For example,
it allows users to tag ‘event’ bookmarks and use them for fast recovery and
failover point selection. Unlike solutions which simply time-stamp each block
to enable restoration to a given point of time, BCA understands the application
state, allowing for application consistent restorations.
“This critical difference allows organisations
to restore back to a given event or a given point in time - and be assured that
the application will restore correctly,” he adds.