DataCore Enables Distributed Disaster Discovery with New Data Recovery Solution

DataCore Software, a provider of storage virtualization solutions, reportedly announced that its new Advanced Site Recovery solution delivers a flexible and powerful approach to disaster recovery for VMware vSphere 4.

 

The company announced the ASR solution at the Microsoft (News - Alert) Tech-Ed 2009 conference in Los Angeles, Calif.

 

DataCore ASR, which builds on DataCore’s universal storage virtualization software, allows organizations to leverage readily available IT assets from a central site to one or more distributed contingency locations and back again, minimizing or eliminating business disruptions and data loss attributed to planned and unforeseen site outages.

 

While most of the other site recovery approaches are limited to just virtual machines, DataCore ASR enables both physical and virtual servers to be protected across multiple sites. This distributed disaster recovery lets organizations cost-effectively spread disaster recovery responsibilities across several smaller sites.

 

Company officials said that DataCore ASR has the ability to send the VMs and the storage to a remote site, to recover it from the remote site then bring it back to the primary site. This central site restoration capability ensures rapid restoration of the central IT site from the widely dispersed branches through ongoing bi-directional replication.

 

DataCore ASR delivers site recovery in an automatic and powerful approach. Rather than attempting to fully recreate the central datacenter at another major site, ASR can distribute responsibilities for keeping the business going among a few remote offices and branch offices based on business and operational capabilities.

 

“DataCore ASR enables users to execute site recovery operations in a way that is fundamentally different from existing solutions in the marketplace today by bringing the data center together into a single solution,” said James Price, vice president of product and channel marketing, DataCore Software, in a statement.

 

DataCore announced that it is demonstrating the power of DataCore ASR at the fourth annual summer VMware VMUG in New England.