Arthur Bitts, senior systems engineer at Cummins Inc., a power company headquartered in Columbus, Ind., has tested the technology and gives it the thumbs up. "The data migration with IPStor was completely transparent to our end users, who were able to conduct business as usual," he says.
FalconStor says the migration appliance extends its customer base beyond the data center to midrange and smaller businesses that host their disaster recovery sites at managed service providers (MSPs). MediaPoint, an MSP in Boston, is testing the technology as a way to offer remote disaster recovery services to its customers.
IPStor enables replication from any storage system -- including direct-attached storage devices -- over any platform or protocol. It offers asynchronous mirroring, for extending the distance of a mirror to remote locations, as well as replication over Fibre Channel, iSCSI, and SCSI, extending the replication protocol to include local- or remote-attached SCSI or FC disks using a single IPStor for online or nearline disk-based backup and restore.
Early next month, FalconStor is set to announce version 4 of its software, which it expects to ship later this quarter. Major components of the new software, which was last updated in May 2002, include data migration and performance optimization features (see FalconStor Broadens Appeal).
FalconStor is keeping schtum on most of the details of IPStor 4 until its release, but we did glean a couple of things. Its bare-metal recovery feature, which keeps an updated image of a server running in the event of a hard disk failure, is supposed to put an end to the nightmare of recovering data from tape and reinstalling applications and operating systems after such a failure.
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