Press Release
Woodcliff Lake, NJ, August 25, 2008 – Syncsort's Backup Express now offers unprecedented data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities for Linux, as well as for Windows, Solaris and heterogeneous networks.
Backup Express Advanced Recovery is one of the few backup products to offer the following groundbreaking features for many Linux versions. These features enable users to meet the most stringent RTOs and RPOs with minimal impact on their Linux source servers and networks, while dramatically saving on storage investments.
- Backups stored as virtual-volume images on disk storage of any kind.
- Very fast data and application access from virtual-volume images for any point-in-time snapshot. A virtual image can be mapped as a read-writable LUN in minutes and made accessible to the application for full availability.
- Block Level Incremental (BLI) backup technology, which identifies and copies only the changed blocks of changed files, minimizing storage and CPU needs, reducing application server impact, performing data reduction at the source, and eliminating protracted backup window requirements.
- Bare metal recovery in minutes, including operating system, settings, patches, and applications – without the need for special disaster recovery backups. This allows an enterprise to be up and running with little or no down-time after a crash or data loss.
- Near-instant read/write access to Oracle applications – including Oracle cloning – at any chosen recovery point, so that business can go on as usual.
"Linux has grown to be a substantial part of our user community," said Dan Regan, senior vice president of Syncsort. "Linux users, like everyone else, are entitled to the finest data and application protection available. With Syncsort's latest product update, Linux users are assured they'll be able to recover from a failure right away and continue to do business."
About Backup Express
Syncsort Backup Express is the only enterprise data protection software that reduces storage, bandwidth and CPU requirements, while enabling server and site recovery in just minutes. It provides fast server backup, reliable disaster recovery and business continuity.
Key Benefits
- Reduces backup time by 90%* (typically less than 10 min/server)
- Reduces recovery time to minutes, instead of hours or days
- Minimizes storage requirements (26:1*)
- Reduces CPU and bandwidth usage by 90+%
- Increases backup success rates up to 99+%
About Syncsort
Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data protection and data management software for mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows environments. For nearly 40 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. An independent market research firm has named Syncsort as one of the top Data Warehouse 100 Vendors for seven years in a row. Over 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries to protect data in distributed environments, provide complete DR solutions, speed data warehouse processing, and improve performance of data-intensive applications and processes. For more information, visit the Syncsort Web site at www.syncsort.com.
* Claims are based on specific comparisons and vary depending on environment.
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