Cost limits use of disaster recovery

The number of companies using outside service providers for business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) are not expected to rise above the current low levels in the coming year, reports ITWales.

Three-quarters of respondents to a recent survey said the high cost is the main deterrent.

Data security issues are also limiting investment-levels in many businesses. Only 13% of respondents said their company uses remote replication and data mirroring from outside-companies, although nearly half use some outside source for DR.

Silver Peak Systems and Double-Take Software have partnered to ensure secure real-time replication, backup and recovery in high capacity WAN environments, reports MarketWire.

The companies are pursuing joint sales, marketing and interoperability testing efforts to help enterprises improve business continuity and disaster recovery across geographic locations.

Data protection products can be affected by inherent WAN limitations, including bandwidth, high latency and packet loss. To combat these restrictions, Silver Peak's NX Series of WAN acceleration appliances uses disk-based data reduction to eliminate over 90% of traffic traversing the WAN, as well as various TCP acceleration, loss mitigation, and quality of service techniques to accelerate WAN performance.

Nexsan Technologies has upgraded its SATABeast and SATABoy storage products, which provide wire-speed iSCSI performance and enhanced security, flexibility and simplicity, according to BusinessWire.

This firmware upgrade boosts performance to 100Mbps for Nexsan RAID storage, using a single iSCSI port, and 180Mbps using dual ports. Dual-controller performance doubles these numbers.

The upgrade will be standard for all SATABeast and SATABoy systems, and is available as a free firmware update for existing customers.