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NetApp Disaster Recovery Solutions

Due to today's organisations depending heavily on digital data to function, any event that suspends the flow of information (whether its planned or not) can seriously effect business operations. For every hour information resources are unavailable, the business loses revenue, damages its reputation, and loses advantages over its competitors.

To minimise downtime associated with a catastrophic event, every business should have a disaster recovery plan in place. The foundation for this plan is the acquisition and implementation of the technologies required to allow business continuity if significant downtime occurs.

The NetApp Solution

NetApp Disaster Recovery Solution

NetApp Disaster Recovery solutions deliver simple, but highly powerful plans that provide data security, high availability, and on the event of a problem, rapid and complete data recovery.

Working with existing network infrastructure and offering flexible modular systems, NetApp solutions ensure business continuance, offering 99.99% measured availability and requiring minimal maintenance.

NetApp Solutions differ greatly depending on the type of events that the solution will be deployed to protect against such as local disasters and more serious enterprise wide failures. With local disasters, the primary goal is availability of resources locally, where as with enterprise disasters, the goal is to resume services remotely with minimal impact on operations.

Key Components for local disaster recovery:

  • Disk Protection - NetApp offers a unique, patented, high-performance RAID protection technology on NetApp Storage systems
  • System Data Recovery - NetApp Snapshot and SnapRestore software provide optimised local backup and recovery
  • Secondary System Data Recovery - NetApp SnapMirror replicates data at high speeds over a LAN or a WAN for fast recovery of 'mission-critical' applications
  • Tape Recovery - NDMP tape backup provides the basic, traditional tape protection
  • Clustered Failover Configurations: Clustering software for maximum availability

Key Components for Enterprise wide recovery:

  • Remote Synchronous Data Recovery - Synchronous remote mirroring with NetApp SnapMirror allows for immediate replication of data across FC or IP connections. More comprehensive solutions can include online synchronous clusters with MetroCluster and remote SyncMirror
  • Remote Asynchronous Data Recovery - Asynchronous remote mirroring with NetApp SnapMirror
  • Remote Disk Backup: Backup to disk with NetApp SnapVault
  • Remote Client Recovery: Near-instant client failover with VFM (Virtual File Manager)

More Current - and faster Recoveries

NetApp technology provides replicas of data as up-to-date as is necessary, whether that is fully synchronous or within minutes, hours, or days. When an unplanned failure occurs, it is simply a matter of returning to the most recent data copy and then resuming business operations.

Lower TCO, Higher ROI

NetApp recovery solutions are easy to implement and operate, with minimal demand on IT and network administration resources. The solution integrates smoothly into existing infrastructure and is operational almost immediately, without the need to change the way in which existing systems and business operations work.

High Reliability

NetApp solutions are sophisticated and powerful, whilst being logical and dependable. Built-in reliability means virtually no downtime and 24/7 access to mission-critical data for employees, customers, and partners.

Minimal Data Loss

Online backups with Snapshot Technology minimise data loss, enabling near-instantaneous, transparent backups by storing multiple read-only versions of each data volume. The NetApp Snapshot function requires minimal disk space and because only changed data is stored, it is possible to take copies far more frequently than tape backups.

Near Instantaneous Recovery

NetApp SnapRestore Software allows enterprises to recover almost instantly from disasters. In a matter of seconds, SnapRestore software can recover anything from individual files to multi-terabyte volumes so that operations can be quickly resumed.

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