Secure network infrastructure company SonicWALL has
launched what it claims will solve
small and medium size businesses’ (SMBs’) perennial problems
with protecting business critical data, applications and
systems.
The new Continuous Data Protection (CDP) system is claimed to be
a complete, continual disk-based backup and recovery solution.
Furthermore, SonicWALL believes that the solutions will be
appreciated particularly at this time when SMBs are seeking
enhanced productivity from their existing resources with decreasing
budgets and increased regulatory requirements yet with a growing
demand for the continuous availability of data.
The new system is designed to tap into a general move away from
tape based storage. Given research from Microsoft suggesting that
human error is to blame for as much as 33 – 40% percent of all data
loss , SonicWALL argues that firms, especially SMBs, are
realising that tape-based recovery solutions are no longer suitable
in a fast moving business environment.
It says that as technology advances and tape-based storage
solutions become outdated, SMBs will look for technologies that can
offer speed of recovery, superior flexibility, and are easier to
manage with greater reliability.
The CDP Series provides a number of disaster recovery
options—such as offsite or site-to-site data backup, local
archiving, or bare metal recovery—plus automatic transparent
backups and simplified installation and management requirements. It
maintains file availability in multiple historic versions so that
servers and their applications—including Exchange, SQL and Active
Directory database—are protected with multiple-point-in-time
versions for disaster recovery.
In a move that will particularly interest
SMBs who have embarked on mobilising their business, SonicWALL
has added features intended to reduce data loss in laptops (or any
server of desktop) by protecting data and databases as they are
created or changed in real time, transparently and
non-disruptively, to ensure user productivity and server
uptime.
CDP features capacity up to 9 Tbytes at typical compression, GbE
connectivity, RAID 5, and field-replaceable components. Low-touch
administration features are designed to reduce significantly IT
backup management overhead costs hence enabling SMBs to focus on
more revenue-related IT projects.