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ExaGrid Grid Computing Presentation Overview
ExaGrid Systems' presentation explained how a "Grid Computing" approach is used in its Advanstor™ "Business Continuity Focused" storage solution. The solution scales by adding storage capacity and compute power for included HSM, Delta Compression and Replication functionality in a "Grid Enabled" matrix.
ExaGrid Systems Advanstor™ capability eliminates common Business Continuity Process and Storage Management issues including:
- Traditional backup/restore processes are time-consuming, costly, complex and error-prone
- Restoration of lost or deleted files takes hours
- Backups frequently fail preventing data from being restored at all
- Backup and archive tapes become lost or unreadable over time
- Site disaster recovery involves tape-based restoration processes which can create days, and even weeks of downtime, which in many cases leads to corporate collapse
- Primary storage management still requires complex, manual file system management each time a file system fills up
The solution to these problems is Advanstor™. It eliminates tape-based backups and continually-shrinking backup windows. Advanstor™ significantly reduces the time it takes to restore lost files and to recover from system and site disasters. It also greatly simplifies the operational issues around continually expanding primary storage capacity to meet user demand.
Advanstor™ provides high performance NAS storage, complete on-site and off-site incremental-only disk-based backups, and fast site disaster recovery. Its innovative grid-based architecture makes the entire system self-discovering, self-protecting and self-healing.
Advanstor™ integrates both storage and protection into one, simple to use, automated product including a remote site repository as part of the all inclusive solution.
For more information please visit the ExaGrid web site;