Centralized backup
Centralized backup solution is designed for all levels of computing environments from workgroup to departmental and for the whole organization. The primary objective for a backup solution is to backup data. A backup is an exact duplication of data file, data set, or complete system from a hard disk. Should the hard disk data be destroyed or corrupted, the data will be quickly and accurately restored from the backup tape. Tape drive, with its different technologies, reasonable speed and low cost per gigabyte for storage, form the simplest backup strategy. To meet the requirements of limited backup time and huge amounts of data, autoloaders or tape libraries working with storage management software can provide unattended (automated) centralized backup solutions.
Remote mirroring
Remote mirroring solution allows the customers to replicate, protect, and share data in dynamic new ways. Realtime and point-in-time copies improve both data security and mobility for a variety of critical activities, including protection, testing, disaster recovery, and data warehousing. Customers can replicate data quickly and safely within the same data center or even between different data centers. Sharing data within the enterprise can enable immediate response which is also a key component of business agility.
Remote copy automates the duplicating of current production data from a primary site to a remote site, ensuring the mission-critical data is safe, secure, and current. Through industry-standard ExSA, it provides reliable remote copy over long distances with links located up to 43 kilometers away.
Storage Area Network
Storage Area Network (SAN) is the latest storage architecture utilizing Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop technology, Fibre Channel hubs / switches, and other components to deliver the "network" for storage. It is a dedicated and high-speed network that connects servers and storage devices to improve a company's data availability. SANs separate the management of servers from the data. Managing storage separately from the servers provides new degrees of freedom in enterprise information technology management. Additionally, moving storage and storage management away from the LAN to off-load the LAN for client/server production. SANs provide cost-effective storage consolidation, enable the creation of common shared storage pools attached to multiple servers. Software will be the key to the achievement of the expected benefits from a SAN. In particular, improved software capability enable users seamlessly access to storage devices on whatever operating system.