Jim McNiel, CEO and President of FalsonStor, and I had a rather lively conversation about virtualized environments, the progression some organizations are making from having all of their systems on-premise and what happens when backup and quick recovery are not part of their plans.
Jim would say that even that may not work in a rapidly moving eCommerce application because applications are no longer built as monolithic blocks of code running on a single system. Modern applications are built differently. They are distributed, multi-tier and are built using "services," each of which maintains its own data store.
Jim would assert that a centralized backup solution, all by itself, wouldn't be able to capture a snapshot of everything in a timely fashion.
Business data is one of the most critical aspects of operations and revenue generation. Downtime caused by natural or manmade disasters is unacceptable. To ensure that operations are always running, you must prepare for and prevent data loss caused by software or hardware failures through careful business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) planning.
FalconStor BC/DR solutions enable non-disruptive DR with hardware independence, scalability, and flexibility, for cost-effective and comprehensive data protection across your business. Our solutions help ensure seamless business operations at local or remote sites in the event of downtime or disaster. By keeping replicas and snapshots readily available at the DR site, these solutions enable quick and simple data and system recovery to any point in time:
- Enable 99.999% availability
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- Reduce primary storage capacity requirements by 50% with storage virtualization
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