IP-Converge intros business continuity centre

IP Converge Data Centre, the IT and telecoms division of IPVG, has released an addition to its roster of solutions and services called IPC Business Continuity Centre, reports Philstar.

This latest service offering from the Makati-based Internet data centre operator aims to address the business continuity and disaster recovery requirements of new and existing clients.

The IPC Business Continuity Centre leverages on IP-Converge's existing data centre infrastructure and redundant IP network which guarantees continuous power, cooling and Internet connectivity even in the event of a disaster.

Start-up Exagrid has introduced a 10TB deduplication appliance, configurable in a 10-node deduplication grid or cluster, with global reduplication across the nodes and data domain-beating performance, states Channel Register.

Exagrid provides disc-to-disc backup deduplication appliances that connect in a grid architecture for the mid-market.

The company says its users can scale its grid to grow capacity and avoid replacing one dedupe box with a bigger one.

VMware has updated a disaster recovery mechanism for the virtualised portion of the data centre, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, according to InformationWeek.

Site Recovery Manager 4 includes compatibility with vSphere 4, support for network file system-based storage replication as well as fibre channel and iSCSI-based replication, and simplified failover using shared recovery sites.

This is the second version of VMware's disaster recovery solution, but it's been given the number four to indicate support for VMware's vSphere 4 infrastructure, as well as its predecessor, vSphere 3.