InMage Unveils Series 4000 Backup and DR Appliance

InMage Systems, Inc. introduced the 4000 Series, a backup and DR appliance designed to satisfy the needs of customers, from SMB to enterprises with petabyte deployments.

Based on a self-contained architecture that includes compute, networking and storage, It is fast and easy to deploy and boasts minimal space and power requirements. It provides the capability to re-instantiate data centers in minutes with near zero data loss, reducing operational time and costs. It can also address hybrid cloud DR, replicating from appliance-to-appliance, to a secondary data center, or to a range of cloud providers. Built in features such as compression, encryption, WAN acceleration and bandwidth management enable replication across geographic distances while minimizing bandwidth costs, maximizing capacity, and increasing security. The proprietary technology allows byte level change protection and in-line de-dupe which results in thorough backup and recovery solution.

“We chose the InMage 4000 because it is a cost effective backup and DR solution all rolled into one magic box.” Pat Smith, CIO, Our Kids, a non-profit provider of child welfare services to Florida’s Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

It’s based on data protection technology that captures data changes in real-time at the byte level, and allows for continuous backup with near zero impact on primary servers and storage. This approach eliminates backup windows and surpasses RPO and RTOs offered by traditional methods It also provides the ability to recover to any point in time, at the level of granularity required, such as mails or mailboxes, files and folders, volumes, full server or even the entire site.

Enterprise features include:

• Flash accelerated hybrid storage pools that leverage enterprise SAS drives in redundant 1+0 configurations for non-disruptive rebuilds

• Thin provisioning, zero overhead copy on write, pipelined IO, dynamic striping and variable block size

• Native capacity optimization features, in-line compressions and de-dupe

• Low latency, high throughput 10GbE interfaces for storage access that eliminate the need to purchase external storage networking switches

• Individual e-mail recovery for Exchange

• ‘No-down-time’ bare-metal-recovery for Windows and Linux

• Data lifecycle management with sparse retention

• ROI over ‘one-way’ dedupe appliances

• Enables secondary workloads like reporting, test and development

“We are always looking to provide market-leading solutions to our corporate customers that will complement their existing IT infrastructure,” said at Max Migel, MD, DataCorp. “When it comes to heterogeneous backup and recovery, partnering with InMage on their new 4000 Series was an easy decision because its technology is easy to use and affordable.”

It starts at $8,000 MSRP and is shipping.