HDS Enhanced Hitachi Dynamic Replicator, Powered by InMage

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced enhancements to its replication and data protection software suite, Hitachi Dynamic Replicator (HDR).

The enhancements help large enterprises meet recovery time and recovery point objectives remotely and locally for data and applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle, in physical and virtual environments. Building on its success with midsize companies, the new HDR now extends to large enterprises to minimize business disruption by continuously collecting data changes as they occur, all while they upgrade to the latest in Hitachi storage technologies like Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP).

"Disaster recovery is a critical concern for organizations of all sizes as they strive to improve the data resilience of their operations. Specifically, large enterprises are dealing with rapid data growth that requires simplified and cost-effective data protection and replication solutions for disaster planning and operational recovery in physical and virtual environments," said Sean Moser, vice president, Storage Software Product Management, Hitachi Data Systems. "Hitachi Dynamic Replicator enables customers to meet these demand requirements by continuously capturing and replicating data as it changes, making the data nearly instantly available for recovery – all while being completely transparent to the file systems, applications and network."

New Hitachi Dynamic Replicator:
Better Clustering Support, CDP, Scalability
Hitachi Dynamic Replicator, powered by InMage Systems, uses an hybrid technology to capture changes to data in real time and offers flexible recovery to any previous point in time. As one solution serving enterprise and midsize companies, it supports any vendor’s servers and storage while preserving customers’ existing investments and infrastructure.

The new HDR introduces vast clustering support required by enterprise-class environments including Oracle RAC, AIX, Linux and Solaris. HDR is an unified product that has PureSplit CDP for all major enterprise platforms, which allows data to split for replication while being transparent to the file systems and applications.

Details on new enterprise-level enhancements:

Extended Oracle RAC Support: Recovery wizards for Oracle RAC CDP support on Linux and Unix outperform every block-level replication product and set a new benchmark for ease of use.
Clustering Support: Unix, AIX 6.1, Solaris, Linux.
Enterprise Level PureSplit CDP: Seamless and transparent file system and application replication.
Improved Scalability: Unified protection for all aspects of storage, from volumes to servers and virtual machines; now scales to hundreds of servers.
Hybrid of Fabric and Host Architectures: Compatible with all fabrics including Brocade, Cisco, and QLogic.

HDR is a recovery solution for enterprise applications and improves overall recovery reliability for any organization – distributed or centralized.

Benefits of HDR include:

Improved application usability: Works with Exchange, SharePoint, Oracle and VMware.
Faster, more reliable data and application recovery: Offers automated policy-based software solutions; fail over and fail back.
RPO, RTO and ROI: Leverages CDP with sparse retention to help meet even the most stringent RPO and RTO requirements for up to 5x reduction in disk requirements over standard CDP.
Preservation of existing investments: Enhances existing data protection solutions; single solution supports heterogeneous servers and storage.
Improved data management and protection operations: Leverages PureSplit CDP to allow replication without impacting the application or file system.

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