EMC, LEGATO, Nortel Networks Announce Business Continuity Solution
EMC, LEGATO, Nortel Networks Announce Business Continuity Solution
Industry Leaders Combine Technologies for Highest Levels of Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery over Distance
EMC Corporation, LEGATO Systems, Inc. and Nortel Networks has announced a highly available enterprise business continuity solution that enables multiple data centers to act as one to help keep businesses running.
In the event of a disaster, transactions are automatically routed to an alternate site with no need for manual restore or restart procedures, greatly reducing time to recovery and lowering costs. As environments become increasingly complex, customers require diverse data centre solutions that can be linked across substantial distances.
This business continuity solution provides a geographically dispersed, high-availability architecture for application, server, storage and transport.
The solution includes EMC Symmetrix(r) and CLARiiON(r) networked storage systems, EMC SRDF? (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) remote replication software, LEGATO Automated Availability Manager? (AAM) for EMC SRDF and Nortel Networks OPTera* Metro 5200 Multiservice Platform.
The solution also provides application availability, backup and recovery, proactive management of planned downtime and optimisation of resources and environments over geographically dispersed distances. Heterogeneous platform support includes Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000, and IBM AIX.
Integrated through the EMC Developers Program?, LEGATO AAM for EMC SRDF combines functions of AAM with EMC SRDF software for full site protection of system resources, data and applications; planned or unplanned downtime; site failure or disaster; and automatic (or manual) site-to-site failover and fail-back. EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON networked storage systems support LEGATO high availability clusters managed over distance through a single LEGATO AAM console.
Customers are benefited by leveraging the support of LEGATO AAM with the remote replication functionality of EMC SRDF while running protocols across Nortel Networks DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing) links at distances of up to 200 kilometers. The bandwidth of Nortel Networks DWDM-based OPTera Metro 5200 platform gives this solution massive scalability.
Related Article: