Avago Chooses Axxana

Axxana announced that Avago Technologies, supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications, has purchased the Phoenix System RP.

Avago will use Axxana’s Phoenix System to protect data synchronously over its existing asynchronous infrastructure, as well as utilize Axxana’s WAN link failure data protection capabilities. Avago will benefit from Zero Data Loss using its existing primary and disaster recovery data centers, located in Singapore and Colorado, respectively, thousands of miles apart. Synchronous replication at such distances over IP lines was never possible before the invention of the Enterprise Data Recorder (EDR), AKA the Enterprise Black Box.

The Phoenix system RP is a solution developed in conjunction with EMC RecoverPoint and qualified with EMC VNX and CLARiiON, delivering synchronous replication benefits over asynchronous infrastructure.

In the Avago application of The Phoenix System RP, EMC RecoverPoint sends data asynchronously to remote sites, while the Axxana EDR protects a synchronous copy of information inside a hardened black box storage device at the primary site itself. Following any disaster, The Phoenix System RP rapidly extracts the protected data and transmits it to a remote site, where the recovered information is reintegrated by EMC RecoverPoint, with the asynchronous remote copy, thus yielding, combined, an exact mirror image of the data in the primary data center.

The Axxana system provides cost savings by protecting Avago’s data during high load application peaks, which enables Avago to stay with average throughput bandwidth levels for their communication lines. Therefore, Avago can avoid unnecessary costly upgrades to higher bandwidth over time.

Bob Rudy, Avago’s CIO said: "Axxana provided us with a solution no one thought would be possible until today -Zero Data Loss over thousands of miles and with synchronous recovery. Add to this Axxana’s protection against link failures and application high loads, without increasing bandwidth costs, and Axxana’s Phoenix System RP was a no brainer choice for us. I am sure this will quickly become a standard in the industry."

Eli Efrat, Axxana’s CEO said: "This customer win is another significant validation of Axxana’s technology and its value proposition for customers using the EMC CLARiiON and VNX storage arrays. With the Avago installation, Axxana’s Phoenix System RP will deliver a lower cost, highly-reliable data protection solution for Avago’s critical data."