Axxana Deployed by Scottish Government

Axxana, Inc. announced that the Scottish Government has deployed The Phoenix System RP to meet its BC goal of zero data loss, and to reduce ongoing replication costs.

Axxana’s DR system is capable of surviving any disaster while ensuring 100% data protection and recovery over any distance, with continuous cost savings.

The Information Systems and Information Services (ISIS) Division of the Scottish Government provides information and communications technology for its own departments, as well as for a number of Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) and agencies. The Scottish Government needed to demonstrate improved resilience within their datacenter infrastructures to meet their own internal compliance demands, and to provide that same capability to other public sector bodies that use their datacenter facilities.

Andy McClintock, CTO, Scottish Government said: "The data protection and DR solution from Axxana enables us to fulfill BC requirements that we have set for our Government and Public agencies. The simple deployment of the system, as well as the delivery of RPO and RTO, have made this decision an easy one for us."

The Phoenix System RP is a solution developed in conjunction with EMC RecoverPoint, delivering synchronous replication benefits over asynchronous infrastructure. The Axxana system is designed to protect data through high application peaks or low-bandwidth availability, and provides unmatched WAN link failure data protection.

"Axxana’s DR system is a perfect complement to the Scottish Government’s existing infrastructure, and the benefits they will realize – both in terms of data protection and cost savings – are significant," said Paul Jassies, Axxana’s UK regional manager. "We are confident that the protection we have provided will ease their path toward becoming a core datacenter in Scotland."

In this application of The Phoenix System RP, EMC RecoverPoint sends data asynchronously to remote sites, while Axxana protects a synchronous copy of information inside a hardened ‘black box’ storage device at the primary site. Following any disaster, The Phoenix System RP 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, a mirror image of the data in the primary data center.