SonicWALL CDP for a Complete D2D Backup Solution

SonicWALL, Inc. announced the launch of the SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Series, which provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with a complete, continual disk-based backup and recovery solution that protects business critical data, applications and systems. At a time when SMBs are seeking enhanced productivity from their existing resources, decreasing budgets, regulatory requirements and the rising demand for continuous availability of data, the SonicWALL CDP Series provides a unique, low-touch, comprehensive data protection solution.

Historically, nightly backup was sufficient. Businesses are now looking for more flexible solutions. The CDP Series provides flexible disaster recovery options, automatic transparent backups and simple installation and management requirements. The CDP Series maintains file availability in multiple historic versions such that all servers and their applications — including Exchange, SQL and Active Directory database — are protected with multiple-point-in-time versions for disaster recovery.

"SonicWALL understands the very real pain-points SMBs have when it comes to backing-up, and more importantly restoring lost data," said Chris Winter, Director of CDP Product Management, SonicWALL. "Based on customer feedback, we have worked hard to design an affordable, easy to use backup and recovery solution that doesn’t compromise on performance or reliability. With features like policy-driven backup and self-directed restore, the CDP Series does an amazing job of automating tedious tasks and requiring fewer dedicated IT resources to manage."

CDP versus Tape
Human error is to blame for as much as 33 – 40 percent of all data loss, firms are fast realizing that tape-based recovery solutions are no longer suitable in today’s fast moving business environment. As technology advances and tape-based storage solutions become outdated, businesses are looking for technologies that can offer speed of recovery, superior flexibility, and are easier to manage with greater reliability. SonicWALL’s CDP Series features capacity up to 9 TB at typical compression, GbE connectivity, RAID 5, and field-replaceable components, making it optimized for today’s demanding requirements for performance and reliability.

Key Features include:

• Automatic Transparent Backup: simplifies backup management tasks with enforced policy and automated backup, thereby eliminating backup windows.
• Low-Touch Administration: significantly reduces IT backup management overhead costs, enabling IT to focus on more revenue-related IT projects
• User Self-Directed Restore: provides quick access to protected files for fast and simple point-and-click, on-demand file restoration without waiting for IT intervention or recreating lost files, yielding faster time-to-productivity
• Flexible Disaster Recovery: offers options for offsite or site-to-site data backup, local archiving, or bare metal recovery to enable fast recovery of data, applications or entire workstation or server systems after any disruption, satisfying business continuity initiatives and minimizing business impact
• Laptop, Desktop and Server Protection: Significantly reduces data loss by protecting data and databases (SQL, Exchange and Active Directory Servers) as they are created or changed in real time, transparently and non-disruptively, to enhance user productivity and server uptime.

The CDP Series from SonicWALL is available December 15, 2008 and is specifically priced for businesses of all sizes with disaster recovery solutions including the CDP 110, 210, 5040 and 6080.