The local operation of the German luxury vehicle manufacturer, BMW, has implemented VERITAS Storage Replicator for NT at its Rosslyn plant to eliminate downtime in the event of data loss on 10 key Windows NT servers.
According to Tiresh Bedesi, the move is part of a broader disaster recovery plan aimed at enabling the company to return to normal operations within a 24-hour period, should a disaster strike. "Familiarity and long experience with VERITAS products, primarily in the form of Backup Exec, are the chief reasons for selecting Storage Replicator," he says.
"We maintain a farm of disaster recovery servers at a remote location to protect our operation from inevitable hardware failure as well as and other forms of potential disaster. VERITAS Storage Replicator ensures that the more than 100GB of data residing on these application servers is mirrored elsewhere and can be brought online if one or more of the primary systems is no longer available."
According to Byron Brooker, an account manager for CHM Vuwani Computer Solutions, a preferred supplier of IT solutions to BMW SA, in looking for a suitable product, VERITAS Storage Replicator for NT was chosen above other products. "During the evaluation process we determined that it [Storage Replicator] would be most effective in eliminating downtime caused by data loss on 10 key Windows NT servers at BMW`s Rosslyn plant," he says.
VERITAS Storage Replicator for Windows NT and Windows 2000 provides real-time data replication that maximises data accuracy and availability through continuous copying of data to another server. "This guards against business interruption by keeping data and applications online and available even if an entire site is inaccessible," says Elizabeth le Roux, regional manager for sub-Saharan Africa at VERITAS.
"The product enables administrators to centralise backup without disrupting normal server operations and eliminates the need to shut down production servers for backup, enabling 24x7 operations," she continues.
Robust monitoring and notification features support centralised, enterprise-wide management of data protection while replication of entire server volumes, file systems and individual files offers protection for all types of Windows data
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