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Continuity Software Releases AvailabilityGuard/SAN

To prevent SAN data loss

Continuity
Software Inc.
has expanded its family of service availability
risk management solutions with the addition of AvailabilityGuard/SAN.

The software solution detects downtime
and data loss risks across the SAN, ensuring that data protection and
BC goals are met.

The SAN has become complex, made up of
numerous vendors’ technologies and managed by multiple teams. Keeping
up with hundreds of instruction pages published by each storage,
server, HBA, multipathing, virtualization, and other vendors at all
times is impossible for any IT team. Configuration errors that
violate vendor best practices are practically inevitable in this
environment.

Compounding the challenge for IT teams,
with frequent changes made across the environment and no single
universal management tool, changes originating in one area of the
infrastructure are often not carried through to completion across
other areas that are managed by other teams.

This solution offers end-to-end
visualization that allows IT teams to coordinate activities across
domains. Drawing on the strength of a community-supported
knowledgebase containing thousands of potential risks, the software
proactively detects risks, validates vendor best practices, and
ensures the configuration is optimized.

Features:

  • Automatic daily verification of the SAN
    fabric
  • Validation that configuration changes
    do not introduce downtime and/or data loss risks
  • Impact review of configuration changes
    prior to deployment
  • Visibility into SAN configuration –
    end-to-end

"Historically, most IT
organization have considered the SAN to be the fabric itself – the
storage, the switches, the HBAs connecting them and possibly the HBAs
sitting in the storage arrays as well. While these are critical
components of the SAN, in order for the SAN to function properly, you
need to know what is happening above and below these components. You
really need to understand aspects such as the multipathing, the
software running on the host, the file systems, the servers, as well
as the virtualization – as virtualization adds a great deal of
complexity between the storage, servers and networking. In addition,
you really need to understand the unique requirements of the
applications and databases,
" said Arun Taneja, founder and
consulting analyst, Taneja Group. "The reality is
however, in this era of highly dynamic infrastructures spanning
multiple IT support services, maintaining any semblance of true
understanding is easier said than done.
" He continued,
"AvailabilityGuard/SAN alleviates this pain by providing a
single pane of glass by which to view, understand and manage the
entire SAN.
"

"Indeed, we see this at
customer sites on a daily basis. Given the vast range of vendor
technologies combined with ever-changing conditions, maintaining
complete visibility and control has seemed like an unattainable
ideal,
" said William Weber, president and CEO, Market
Experts Inc.
a Continuity Software VAD. "The scary part is
however, that many customers are unaware of just how ‘out-of-control’
their environment is, until it’s too late.
" He continued,
"Continuity Software’s AvailabilityGuard/SAN will provide a
welcome relief.
"

"One of our most popular
services is a one-week health check using AvailabilityGuard. We scan
up to 500 ports / 100 physical servers, with the results summarized
in a complete risk analysis report,
" said Doron Pinhas, CTO,
Continuity Software. "100% of those assessed to-date have
uncovered gaps and other vulnerabilities they were completely unaware
of, many associated with critical systems.
" He continued,
"By providing customers with automated daily verification,
complete visualization and comprehensive reporting and analysis,
AvailabilityGuard/SAN reduces data loss and downtime risks by over
90%, thereby ensuring the highest levels of data protection and
service availability possible, while also increasing the overall
efficiency of their SAN fabric.
"

AvailabilityGuard product suite includes:

  • AvailabilityGuard/Enterprise: It
    provides IT organizations with command and control capabilities to
    manage service availability and BC readiness across their IT
    infrastructure.
  • AvailabilityGuard/DR: Enables IT
    organizations to proactively detect DR vulnerabilities that could
    lead to downtime and/or data loss.
  • AvailabilityGuard/Cluster:
    Continuously monitors HA cluster configurations to identify downtime
    and data loss risks.
  • AvailabilityGuard/Cloud:
    Provides automated detection and analysis of potential availability
    risks in the private cloud environment.

By combining AvailabilityGuard/SAN with
AvailabilityGuard/Enterprise customers have end-to-end visibility and
protection across every component in the data center, from the
clusters, to the HA and DR infrastructure, across the SAN, and into
the cloud.

The product is available
and priced starting at
$20,000/year.

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