DataCore unveils SAN disaster recovery bundle

Small and mid-size organizations take note: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based storage software vendor DataCore has today announced a new disaster recovery solution for the small business SAN user. The company used the occasion of the Storage Networking World Europe in Frankfurt to unveil the DR Starter Bundle as part of DataCore’s Virtual Infrastructure Foundation (VIF) acceleration bundle range. The software offers a number of features for deploying thin provisioning storage pools, caching, coupled with specific disaster recovery and multi-site high-availability features including SAN auto failover and failback recovery. “All of our new SMB solution bundles include thin provisioning, high-speed caching, SANmotion data migration capabilities, ISCSI support and hardware independent storage virtualisation,” said George Teixeria, chief executive of DataCore. “These solutions are aimed at users considering high performance shared storage for virtual server deployments, iSCSI SAN infrastructures and disaster recovery solutions.”

Note that the company also announced a new virtual machine SAN technology that will be integrated into its SANmelody, SANsymphony and Traveller CP products. These products can now be deployed hardware agnostic as virtual instances in conjunction with major virtualisation products such as VMware and Virtual Iron.

MORE: The need for small and medium enterprises to make provisions for disaster recovery and business continuity has been highlighted by recent disasters and incidents, the U.K. Federation of Small Businesses has said. Spokesman Simon Briault named foot-and-mouth, bluetongue, and the summer floods as events this year which have made businesses think more about how to deal with emergencies should they arise. These may include ensuring the IT systems of a company are still running by measures such as having a remote system available and backing up data. Briault said: “There’s more awareness now than ever before about the need to make sure that you’ve got continuity plans and that you can survive if there’s a flood or a fire or whatever.” A telephone survey of company directors by Populus a year ago found that most businesses were underprepared for emergencies. Nearly three-quarters had no plans for dealing with terrorist incidents, close to half had no plans for floods and about a third did not have measures to deal with the consequences of storms.