VERITAS replicates data anywhere at anytime

As organizations continue to grow, especially in the increasingly dispersed Middle East market, the risks increase that business-critical remote office data may go unprotected. VERITAS Storage Replicator enables organizations to centralize backup of vital information without disrupting normal server operations and helps cut costs by eliminating the need to invest in remote office administrators and hardware.

Integral to the company's utility computing strategy to help ensure that data and applications are highly available, VERITAS Storage Replicator software efficiently replicates remote office data over an IP connection, either continuously or on a scheduled basis, to a central location where it can be reliably backed up and stored.

"VERITAS customers in the Middle East have revealed that a significant portion of their most important data - up to 60 percent in some cases - resides outside their main data center. Companies that maintain branch offices or remote locations around the region are in an ideal position to benefit from VERITAS Storage Replicator because it enables them to protect data outside the local network in a way that's reliable and reduces the need for additional technology and administrative resources," commented Sam Tayan, regional manager of VERITAS Middle East.

In 2003, the server-based replication market grew just under 50 percent, signaling the importance of data recovery for IT enterprises1. VERITAS Middle East anticipates that remote replication will increasingly be deployed by regional businesses to provide faster recovery of information assets in the event of a disaster. VERITAS Storage Replicator technology helps reduce the amount of data exposed to loss as well as cutting costs by negating the need for tape drives, media and backup administrators at remote locations.

Key benefits of VERITAS Storage Replicator 3.0 include:

• Ease-of-Use: Storage Replicator provides the ability to replicate and access data immediately through the same Windows-based graphical user interface (GUI) as VERITAS Backup Exec™, the leading backup and restore software for Windows environments. Storage Replicator offers centralized management, reporting capabilities and wizard-based installation, ensuring that critical data is easily protected and accessible at all times. Once replication technology is installed, there is virtually no management overhead required, reducing the complexity associated with protecting remote office data.
• Minimal Bandwidth Utilization: Primary concerns for remote office data protection include tight IT budgets and limited hardware and network capacity. Storage Replicator protects the remote office data during network outages and allows administrators to replicate only changed blocks within a file and to choose the amount of bandwidth allocated to each replication procedure, ensuring bandwidth availability for normal business operations between offices. In addition, organizations can schedule their replication jobs during off-peak hours to maximize network resources.
• Extensive Flexibility: As organizations face the inevitable growth of data, they need powerful, flexible and scalable methods to manage and protect their organization data. VERITAS Storage Replicator provides the ability to replicate vast amounts of data simultaneously from multiple locations to minimize the risk of losing that critical data. In the event that data is deleted, organizations can quickly and easily restore files over the wire.