Restore,
they have a lot of portability in the restore. They have a single step
restore, they support a backup to disk, migrate to tape and then
recover directly from tape when the recovery need arises. Can restore
from virtual to virtual environment, for example from VMware to Hype-V.
Also they can restore from virtual to physical or physical to virtual.
Finally they have tuning parameters that allow fine grained control
over how much performance they will extract from the virtual
infrastructure.
APTARE is a private, profitable
company. They are primarily a portal for managing and reporting on your
storage in the enterprise. Over the past few quarters they have
released modules that include backup manager, capacity manager,
virtualization manager and replication manager. They announced 7.1 at
the show and it will be available on September 25th. The tools focus on
VMware handling virtualization specific problems like lack of planning,
limited enterprise view and VM sprawl.
While all of the modules
were upgraded, specific enhancements in APTARE's Virtualization Manager
focused on reporting on VM Density, detailed reporting on performance
metrics from VMware vCenter including IO/sec and latency, VM to
physical LUN mapping and reporting, IO Stats and latency from VM
through to the LUN.
EvoStor, a
VMware only, first that I have seen, storage solution. This is more
than focus, this is exclusive support of a single environment. The
downside, today you couldn't use it for stand-alone server
applications. The upside is that for VMware environments it has
possibly the tightest integration of storage into that infrastructure
that I've seen. The system is basically a storage grid similar to other
scale-out models like LeftHand or Isilon but again, focused on VMware.
Vizioncore,
where we spoke about the new version of vRanger Pro for VMware backups.
It can do incremental backups of virtual machines, reducing backup
windows and lowering the costs of backup infrastructure. It also can
now do direct to target backups, which further reduces resources. In a
time where customers are looking to reduce costs, vRanger Pro can
reduce much of the backup infrastructure investment.
