PlateSpin Now Shipping Its Virtualized Recovery Appliance
Using VMware infrastructure as a foundation for the solution
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 19, 2008 at 4:46 pm
PlateSpin
Ltd. today announced the general availability of PlateSpin Forge, an
innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance for cost-effectively
protecting and rapidly recovering server workloads in the data center.
Using VMware infrastructure as a foundation for the solution, each
PlateSpin Forge appliance harnesses the power of PlateSpin’s workload
portability technology to provide out-of-the-box protection for up to
25 physical or virtual workloads. All necessary hardware, storage,
applications and virtualization technology are pre-packaged and ready
to go, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to deploy,
configure and test a disaster recovery solution.
Since PlateSpin Forge was first announced in early December 2007, the
solution has been deployed and tested hands-on by a select number of
customers and partners as part of the PlateSpin Forge Early Access
Program (EAP).
“The early response from the market has been extremely encouraging,”
said PlateSpin founder and CEO Stephen Pollack. “Users have praised the
recovery appliance’s rich feature set and unique combination of
ease-of-use and affordability. We’re particularly thrilled to see
existing customers such as Greenhill & Co. adopting PlateSpin Forge
and extending their use of our technology to address a variety of
challenges in their data centers.”
“By consolidating multiple physical and virtual workloads onto a single
PlateSpin Forge recovery appliance, we can achieve a 25 to 1 workload
protection ratio with no need for costly investments in duplicate
hardware and software for one-to-one redundancy,” said John Shaffer,
Director of Technology at Greenhill & Co, a leading independent
investment banking firm. “PlateSpin Forge requires near-zero
configuration and ships with everything you need to begin protecting
workloads including recovery hardware, replication software and storage
– for considerably less than if we’d purchased and configured these
components separately.”
With offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas and
multiple geographically-dispersed data centers, Greenhill provides
financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions and
restructurings and manages merchant banking funds for clients around
the world. The critical, real-time nature of Greenhill’s global
business means that the backup and rapid recovery of server workloads
is a corporate imperative.
“It is no longer sufficient simply to backup data,” Shaffer continued.
“The entire server workload including data and applications must be
protected and the recovery process must be fast and seamless in order
to minimize business disruption and data loss. The speed and ease with
which we will be able to recover using PlateSpin Forge makes the
solution extremely attractive as we look to improve our recovery time
and point objectives across a broad range of our server workloads.”
In addition to recovery time and point objectives (RTO and RPO),
organizations increasingly recognize test time objective (TTO) as
another key metric for evaluating recovery solutions. TTO provides a
measure of how easy it is to test a recovery solution. According to
Gartner research, “the testing of disaster recovery solutions is very
important and should be done at least yearly and when significant
processes change” (Gartner, Inc., “Server Capacity on Demand Spans many
Capabilities”, by John R. Phelps, February 13, 2007).
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