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SteelEye Solutions for Linux Data Replication

Continuous Linux data replication is available today!

If data is the lifeblood of your organization, then you know protecting that asset is the key to your continued success. No matter how fault tolerant your servers and storage subsystems may be, if you only have a single copy of the most current data, you are at risk of data loss. Catastrophic failures of your storage subsystem due to hardware failure or natural disasters are only a single cause of data loss. Corruption due to hardware malfunction or user error is a more likely cause of data loss.

Backup tapes can only take you so far and native Linux data replication tools are generally application specific, limited in scope and are hard to manage. SteelEye Data Replication overcomes these limitations by providing the 3 R's of data protection: Replicate, Rewind and Recover.

Linux Data Replication Challenges

  • Ensuring your data is available 24x7x365 regardless of the type of failure: storage subsystem, user error, or site loss
  • Exceeding Service level agreements while staying within budget
  • Overcoming bandwidth and latency limitations associated with WAN replication
  • Replicating transactional email and database data
  • Protecting data using your existing hardware and infrastructure
  • Identifying compatible solutions for multiple server and storage vendor environments
  • Protection for all data - not just specific applications
  • Choosing the correct type of replication for your requirements: asynchronous vs. synchronous
  • Minimizing the risk of data loss due to corruption or failure
  • Protection of data across Virtual, Physical, or Mixed environments
  • Completing backups within shrinking backup windows

Steeleye data replication

Advantages of SteelEye Linux Data Replication

  • Replication over any distance
  • Provides continuous real-time host-based block-level replication of data insuring multiple copies of your data is available at all times
  • Incremental synchronization of large database and email repositories
  • Choose between synchronous or asynchronous replication, depending upon your data protection requirements
  • SteelEye's Data Rewind feature provides continuous data protection (CDP)
    • Recover data to any point in time
    • Eliminates chance of data loss due to corruption
  • One to One, One to Many, Many to One replication
  • Cost-effective
    • Does not require the introduction of a new file system - utilizes standard Linux Files Systems
    • Leverage existing IP networks
    • Storage Independent Replication
      • Does not require new or matching storage subsystems
      • Utilize existing storage
      • Replicate from SAN to SAN, Local Attached to Local Attached, SAN to Local Attached, etc.
      • Make use of virtualization technology such as VMWare, Citrix XenServer, etc.
    • Fraction of the cost of Array Based replication
    • Does not require the use of hardware based WAN accelerators
  • Provides protection for all data, regardless of the application.
  • Optimized for WAN replication
    • 9 Levels of Compression
    • WAN acceleration provides maximum throughput for high speed networks
    • Bandwidth Throttling
  • Advanced Virtual Machine support for VMWare, MS Virtual Server, Citrix XenServer, and other virtualization technologies
    • Replicate data while running within guest virtual machines
    • Consolidate backups on target systems with no impact to primary production servers
  • Add 100% automated local failover or disaster recovery using SteelEye LifeKeeper for Windows High Availability