Today Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that it had been awarded yet another patent, making this its 102nd US patent, this time for a remote replication feature. This new feature enables customers to leverage cost-effective, entry-level storage systems, thus greatly reducing the cost of storage deployments.
Today Dot Hill Systems Corp. announced that it had been awarded yet another patent, making this its 102nd US patent, this time for a remote replication feature. This new feature enables customers to leverage cost-effective, entry-level storage systems, thus greatly reducing the cost of storage deployments.
The new innovation allows a Dot Hill AssuredSAN array to act as an initiator system that can "pull" snapshot data from multiple target storage systems. This innovation has been integrated with Dot Hill’s remote replication software and builds off of RealSnap snapshot technology, part of RealStor software. RealSnap provides virtual snapshots with no performance impacts that can be nested hierarchically and are fully writable. RealSnap snapshots create point-in-time copies of disk volumes enabling instant restoration of data to any captured point in time. And since RealSnap only copies data that has changed to disk, it can virtually eliminate backup windows.
The remote replication enables IT to build complete solutions for business continuance, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance for small to medium sized businesses. The software replicates data between sites using AssuredSAN arrays and works on AssuredSAN arrays not equipped with replication capabilities.
