EMC has announced EMC ControlCenter Replication Manager software (ECC Replication Manager), delivering an entirely new level of automation, simplification and speed for complex data replication tasks, greatly simplifying complex replication procedures such as information recovery, re-purposing and lifecycle data management.
"Customers are creating more and more disk-based replications for business needs such as fast recovery and re-purposing of information. As disk media costs continue to decline and replication technologies advance, the final component required is the ability to make the entire replication process simple and automated. ECC Replication Manager meets this need, doing for disk-based replication what MS Windows did for MS DOS - making it simple and easy for customers to exploit all the underlying capabilities across their entire environment," says Alex Robertson, country Systems Engineer and Professional Services Manager at EMC SA.
An integral part of EMC`s Automated Information Storage (AutoIS) strategy, ECC Replication Manager consolidates into a single point of control the knowledge gained through thousands of EMC replication software deployments. Operating in combination with replication technologies - such as EMC TimeFinder and EMC CLARiiON SnapView as well as non-EMC solutions in the future - ECC Replication Manager automates virtually every procedure related to data replication. The result is dramatically simplified scheduling, splitting, synchronising and mounting of replicas to alternate hosts; automated discovery of devices that need access to replications; and restore from disk of file systems and databases.
"Customers are struggling to do more with disk replications without having to write complex custom code. With ECC Replication Manager, what used to require custom development now can be done automatically. Previously manual processes can now be completed with the push of a button. This carries tremendous value for customers as they strive to get the most efficient use of their technical talent, time and money," he adds.
Mike Kahn, of technology acquisition consulting firm The Clipper Group, Says: "As organisations increasingly rely on disk-based replication for backup and recovery, they will need solutions that will enable them to deploy this approach more extensively while improving administrator productivity through simplification and automation. Productivity-improving software products like ECC Replication Manager will accelerate the adoption of disk-based recovery."
The benefits of disk-based backup and recovery can be outweighed by a host of management challenges associated with complex replication operations across multiple storage domains, applications and environments. The more complex and labour-intensive the procedure, the more staff is required with specialised storage, replication or database knowledge to implement it. ECC Replication Manager eliminates many of these complex and labor-intensive activities, and replaces them with a point-and-click GUI. Customers can now re-deploy expertise for storage or replication technology on more strategic initiatives.
ECC Replication Manager is available immediately and leverages EMC WideSky storage management middleware to ensure both breadth and depth of support for multi-vendor storage systems, networks and host storage resources. It works with all leading backup applications and, through its Java-based management console, can be operated from a local terminal or securely over the Internet.
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