Animal Health International Customer of Axxana

Axxana, Inc. announced
that Animal
Health International, an animal health products distributor,
purchased The Phoenix System RP to ensure data protection and
recovery of its voluminous SAP data maintained in the corporation’s DB2
database.

Animal Health International found Axxana’s DR solution to be
cost-effective and easy to deploy, since the company uses EMC’s VNX storage
with EMC RecoverPoint. Axxana’s Phoenix System RP will protect their SAP
implementation as they migrate to a dual-datacentre architecture. Axxana
developed the Phoenix System RP in conjunction with RecoverPoint to enable
remote synchronous disaster recovery over existing IP communication lines.

Axxana’s Phoenix System RP will provide zero data loss protection,
as well as WAN link failure data protection, as Animal Health
International replicates across US state lines. Furthermore, since Axxana
protects data through high application peaks, Animal Health International will
be able to maintain average bandwidth and avoid costly communication
line upgrades in the near or distant future. Such synchronous replication
benefits were never attainable within an asynchronous environment before the
iAxxana’s Enterprise
Data Recorder (EDR), AKA the Enterprise Black Box.

With an eye for emerging technologies, Tim Hays, Animal Health
International’s Vice President of Information Technology, looked for a reliable
disaster recovery solution: "As we
implement our RecoverPoint environment between two distant data centres, we
were interested to find an affordable solution for an asynchronous
infrastructure that provides zero data loss for our SAP application. With
Axxana’s Enterprise Data Recorder, our needs are answered."

Michael Fedele, CEO of The Pinnacle Group, reseller, commented: "With The Phoenix System RP, we, as a
multi-vendor reseller, are able to provide a disaster recovery solution that
serves as a much more cost- effective alternative to the common synchronous
solutions in the market. Axxana gives us a competitive advantage with a zero
data loss DR system to add to our offerings."

"The Axxana system will
smoothly integrate with Animal Health International’s SAP architecture to
protect their invaluable data. We are proud to provide Animal Health
International with a top-tier data protection solution with no need to
compromise," said Eli Efrat, Axxana’s CEO. "This is another significant validation of Axxana’s technology, and of
the widespread need for reliable disaster recovery systems, regardless of what
vertical you’re in."

In Animal Health International’s new dual data centre DR
environment, RecoverPoint will send data asynchronously to the remote data
centre, while the Axxana EDR will protect a synchronous copy of information
inside a hardened black box storage device at the primary site itself.
Following any disaster, The Phoenix System RP will rapidly extract the
protected data and transmit it to a remote site, where the recovered
information will be reintegrated by RecoverPoint with the asynchronous
remote copy, thus yielding, combined, a mirror image of the data in the
primary data centre.