Next Generation of CDP Solutions From SonicWALL

SonicWALL, Inc. launched its next generation of Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions.

Built from the ground up with a new architecture, SonicWALL CDP
6.0 preserves
and protects business-relevant data assets against loss from file,
device, and location based disasters. With support for Windows, Linux
and Mac OS, CDP provides granular, enforced policy controls over the
entire backup operation. CDP 6.0 supports Microsoft applications
including SQL, Exchange and SharePoint servers, Active Directory and
Small Business Servers. Its flexibility enables IT administrators to
dictate what information to backup, what to exclude and how the
information should be maintained to adhere to recovery and compliance
requirements.

"SonicWALL truly understands the importance of data backup and security.
CDP 6.0 provides us with the highly sophisticated backup and disaster
recovery techniques we need to optimize data storage, backup and
bandwidth utilization," said Kimberly Yatchak, systems administrator at
Kent Beverage Company. "SonicWALL CDP gives us confidence that our data
is secure without having to baby our backups; that’s priceless."

"With the introduction of CDP 6.0 and its integration into the SonicWALL
Global Management System (GMS) platform, we can now achieve remote
access, distributed backup, centralized reporting as well as monitoring
without the need for site-to-site VPN links," said Christopher Brisley,
managing director at Xperta. "As a managed services
provider, Xperta will benefit greatly from this product combination.
Not only is it unique in the marketplace, but it significantly improves
our operations and streamlines our management processes. In fact, for
production of management reports produced under CDP 6.0, we anticipate a
reduction of man-hours by 80-90%."

CDP 6.0 Features
The new CDP changes the backup and recovery process for IT
organizations. A new fileset backup methodology combined with
agent-based data de-duplication moves and stores only unique data
blocks. This speeds the backup process and optimizes bandwidth usage
while maintaining information continuity and the ability to restore
multiple revisions.

• Streamlined recovery phase, with multiple disaster recovery options
  that provide complete data recovery even if the primary data site is
  compromised, lowering administrative overhead and increasing workforce
  productivity. Recovery options include offsite data backup service,
  site-to-site data backup and local archiving to a local NTFS formatted
  USB 2.0 drive that can be physically transported offsite.
• IT backup intelligence and comprehensive protection in a unified
  platform. Granular backup policy and control helps IT efficiently
  capture, filter and preserve valuable data while eliminating irrelevant
  and aged data from the backup set. This reduces data volume and provides
  both continuous protection and point-in-time, snapshot backups.
• Centralized user policy and control services enable IT to perform
  Windows based silent agent installation to one or more remote computer
  users in an active directory network and pre-configure all agents to be
  connected to any available CDP device broadcasting on the same domain.
• Scalability through enterprise agent software allows growing
  enterprises to add client connections and expand platform and
  application coverage. CDP 6.0 scales to support the most popular
  business and client applications, and protects any computing system,
  ranging from single workstations to large multi-platform server farms,
  including the latest Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems.

In addition to these features, the new CDP 6.0 solution has been
designed to help IT meet compliance and legal requirements, ensuring
that mission-critical intellectual property and compliance data in
e-mail and on the network is automatically protected against file,
device and location based disasters that can cause severe data loss.

"Risk management and compliance mandates are issues forcing IT to
rethink data protection, data availability, data preservation, and
disaster recovery readiness and responsiveness," said Ken Dang, product
manager, CDP at SonicWALL. "SonicWALL CDP 6.0 governs information growth
effectively in real time. It scales up to midsize and larger
organizations, providing options to preserve, replicate, archive, govern
and restore greater amounts of data, across Windows, Mac OS and Linux
platforms, and at a lower price than its predecessor devices."

Expanded GMS Support for CDP:
Reporting and Monitoring
To strengthen its offerings, SonicWALL also launched the latest version of its SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS).

GMS 6.0 Service Pack 2 introduces centralized reporting and monitoring
for CDP appliances running firmware 6.0. It provides organizations,
distributed enterprises and service providers with an intuitive solution
to centrally manage and rapidly deploy not just SonicWALL CDP
appliances but also SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam and secure remote
access solutions. Flexibly deployed as software, hardware – in the form
of the Universal Management Appliance (UMA) – or as a virtual appliance,
SonicWALL GMS provides centralized real-time monitoring, and
comprehensive policy and compliance reporting to drive down the cost of
owning and managing SonicWALL appliances.

Availability
SonicWALL CDP 6.0 and SonicWALL GMS products are available.