Ingran Africa, a local storage specialist and distributor of the Zenith Advanced Recovery and Continuity Appliance (ARCA), has announced the availability of its new near-line business continuity appliance.
ARCA is affordable and offers backup and restore options for businesses looking to independently maintain and monitor their systems.
The Zenith ARCA provides the speed and reliability of enterprise-class business continuity and recovery solutions without the enterprise-class price. It uses the same proven technology of Zenith's Backup & Disaster Recovery Platform that has been implemented into thousands of IT environments worldwide.
Ingran Africa managing director Andre Moller says ARCA is a complete standalone product, a network-attached storage device for Windows Servers that is preloaded with backup, recovery, and virtualisation software. “Available in four models, ARCA provides a business continuity solution for companies of any size looking to deploy a standalone system that can be maintained and monitored independently.”
Zenith ARCA is a perfect complement or replacement to existing tape backups because of its ability to provide near-term, near-line recovery from a single file, database or mail message, up to a full production server, in minutes.
Through its unique ARCA-to-ARCA replication feature, solution providers can virtualise failed servers remotely in a fraction of the time typically required of other restoration options. The appliance meets the RPO standards by indefinitely storing 48 hours of backups at 15-minute intervals, 14 daily backups, five weekly backups, and 30-day backups.
When compared to other backup or storage solutions, the Zenith ARCA offers a unique set of features that set it apart:
* Block level transfer for more efficient, reliable backups
* Fifteen minute incremental snapshots for more frequent recovery point objectives
* Total Windows server backup preserves OS and applications, not just data
* Restore systems in a fraction of the time of conventional backups
* Automatic and non-disruptive with no backup windows needed
* Exchange granular recovery, restore down to the message level
* Rapid failover server virtualisation, right on the ARCA
* Bare metal restore, even to dissimilar hardware
* Industry standard encryption to keep your backups safe
* Multiple replication schemes
* Integrated management and reporting
* The ARCA meets the RPO standards of higher priced continuity solutions by storing 48 hours of backups at 15-minute intervals, 14 daily backups, five weekly backups and 30-day backups forever!
“For many IT departments, these terms are often synonymous with backing up to tape or external hard drive. But in truth, that's just a backup. If you house backup data at an off-site storage facility, then you have the start of a disaster recovery plan. At this point, most companies feel that if they can put their hands on their data they have a degree of business continuity,” he explains.
But maintaining business continuity, using the data to repair or recover from a problem in a short timeframe, is often an unforeseen impossibility. The penalty for extended downtime is lost productivity and revenue.
Moller says for IT departments of all sizes, the Zenith ARCA can be a lifesaver if there is a catastrophic server failure. “But what about the day-to-day issues that have you scouring disk and tape backups for a deleted file? With the Zenith ARCA, time spent goes from days and hours to minutes and seconds.”
“For security purposes, your data is fully encrypted. We employ the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm because it has never been broken and is currently considered the gold standard of encryption techniques and renders transmitted data immune to theft,” he concludes.
For more information, contact Ingran Africa on (011) 454-6113 or e-mail sales@ingran.co.za or visit http://www.ingran.co.za.
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