Array Networks intros ABC licences

Array Networks has unveiled the Array Business Continuity (ABC) pre-paid licence, according to CIO.

The ABC licences are included in Array's desktop remote access solution, DesktopDirect, which allows office users to continue to work remotely as if they were at their desktop.

With these pre-paid licences, small and medium enterprises can now be fully prepared for potential business disruptions, at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional business continuity licences.

The Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), the investment arm of the government of Abu Dhabi, has completed the set-up of a business continuity site through the installation of a redundant data centre, reports Eye of Dubai.

The implementation of the site was completed by a team of specialists from Alpha Data, a United Arab Emirates multi-disciplined systems integrator.

The council, responsible for investing part of the government's surplus financial resources, requires fully functional operations 100% of the time.

IBM has released enhancements to its XIV enterprise storage system: asynchronous mirroring and instant space reclamation, states eWeek.

Analyst David Hill says the addition of asynchronous mirroring opens up new remote disaster recovery capabilities and allows IBM to play in the disaster recovery market

Snapshot-based asynchronous mirroring enables the copying of data between sites at virtually unlimited distances.