Press Release
Report Finds Joint Virtual Environment Data Protection Solution Fast, Flexible and Reliable
Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, February 24, 2009 – Syncsort, a global leader in data management, announced today that Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reported in its recent Lab Validation Report that Syncsort’s Backup Express (BEX) and NetApp’s SnapMiror and SnapVault technology can be used to dramatically improve data, server and site recovery speeds and success rates. The report concluded that the combined Syncsort/NetApp solution provides both physical and virtual server environments with reliable data protection, fast data recovery and zero impact data reduction capabilities. ESG is a leading information technology (IT) analyst firm focused on information storage, security, and management.
"The results of this lab validation report support two achievements our customers and partners have already come to expect from BEX – fast and cost-effective data protection and recovery, and data reduction in a virtual environment," said Harvey Tessler, Syncsort’s Senior Vice President of Marketing. "BEX reduces storage, bandwidth and CPU requirements, while enabling server and site recovery in just minutes, and the benefits are increased when combined with NetApp."
According to the report, Syncsort and NetApp deliver a "highly scalable data protection solution offering ease of deployment and management as well as reduced operational costs…Syncsort [BEX] source-side data reduction can be used to significantly decrease the amount of data sent to a backup target, reducing network traffic and CPU impact. It enables fast, frequent, more reliable virtual full backups centrally managed from a corporate data center using the intuitive [BEX] management console."
ESG performed hands-on evaluation and testing at a NetApp facility located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Highlights from the Lab Validation include:
- Syncsort Advanced Recovery with zero impact data reduction significantly lowered disk, network and server CPU use over a series of four logical full backups using NetApp snapshot technology for rapid and consistent disk-based restores.
- Confirmation that disk and network requirements can be reduced by 94 percent for a variety of application-level backups, 96 percent for enterprise application backups, and 95 percent for file data backups retained over 30 days.
- Syncsort Instant Availability offered on-demand access to a 239 GB SQL database backup image with no reconfiguration of the application server — in one minute, with no data movement.
- Syncsort Bare Metal Recovery provided a simple process for recovering an Oracle application running in a Windows virtual machine under VMware ESX virtual server. The Oracle application was restored and available on a bare machine after less than 15 minutes of user intervention and three hours of data transfer over a shared Gigabit Ethernet network.
- ESG's testers were able to manage storage policies, perform backups, and recover files for a variety of operating systems and applications from a single Syncsort BEX management console (VMware ESX, Microsoft Windows, Exchange, SQL Server, NTFS file systems and Oracle).
The full report can be downloaded from ESG’s website at:
http://www.enterprisestrategygroup.com/ESGPublications/ReportDetail.asp?ReportID=1154
About Syncsort Incorporated
Syncsort Incorporated is a leading developer of high-performance data management and data warehousing software. For 40 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and reliable technical support. Most of the Fortune 500 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort’s products are used in more than 50 countries to back up and protect data in distributed environments, speed data warehouse processing, and improve performance of data-intensive applications and processes. For more information call 201-930-9700 (1-877-FAST-951 in the US and Canada) or visit www.syncsort.com.
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