RTBF Chooses Storage Virtualization From FalconStor

The deployment has enabled RTBF to consolidate data from seven remote
sites into just two sites. RTBF has configured two NSS appliances – one
at each site – that interact through Fibre
Channel as a High Availability active cluster, enabling transparent
failover and synchronous mirroring of data between the two sites,
ensuring comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery
contingency.

Christian Neybuch, Systems Engineer at RTBF, said: “One
of the most important capabilities of the FalconStor NSS solution is
that it gives us the ability to rapidly and easily switch from one site
to the other or from one storage subsystem to the other on a single
site. It gives us complete flexibility, while reducing the number of
databases we need to consolidate our data storage in only two sites.”

Vincent Pajot, Southern Region Director, FalconStor, said: “Resilient,
scalable, and flexible storage infrastructures are indispensable for
media outlets such as RTBF to protect their high-volume, data-intense
operations. Their choice of our NSS solution for high performance and
protection of their databases is a strong indication of FalconStor’s
abilities to serve the television and radio industry.”

The FalconStor NSS manages RTBF’s total
storage capacity of 32TB that resides on four EMC CLARiiON units. Most
of the data is comprised of Microsoft SQL Server data, with the
remainder as unstructured user files created by RTBF’s
staff of more than a thousand employees. The application servers
themselves run either Linux or Microsoft Windows.

RTBF achieves the level of protection it requires to manage its data
through a combination of FalconStor NSS options:

• Replication option for Disaster Recovery (DR). FalconStor NSS
  facilitates the replication of mission-critical information between
  data centres, or between remote offices and data centres, via same or
  dissimilar hardware, using innovative remote replications,
  asynchronous mirroring, or synchronous mirroring over IP.
• TimeMark snapshots
  provide administrators the ability to instantly recover a single file,
  an entire volume, or an entire system back to a known good point in
  time. It creates periodic, scheduled or on-demand point-in-time delta
  snapshot copies of data volumes. These delta snapshots contain only
  data changes and therefore do not take up a significant amount of disk
  storage space.
• Application Snapshot Agents ensure transactional consistency for their
  Microsoft SQL application.
• Active-Active failover protects RTBF’s
  storage infrastructure from any single point of failure, including
  network connectivity failures, storage connectivity failures, and
  storage device failures.
• Multipathing keeps data available if network switching or cabling
  fails by allowing the appliance to intelligently distribute
  input/output traffic across multiple FC ports to maximize efficiency
  and enhance system performance of the NSS managed storage.
• IP Trunking is used to unify all of the company’s
  storage architecture.

FalconStor Software, Inc.

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