Technical Specifications for Failover Solutions

 

CLOUD RECOVERY – Server Replication and Failover Solutions

CLOUD STORAGE ASSURANCE - Indexing & Archiving Data Solutions

 

 


 

CLOUD RECOVERY – Server Replication and Failover Solutions


Each Cloud Recovery partner may vary the available options and support

 

Cloud Recovery Includes

  • Cloud-side Operating System, Application and Replication capability.
  • Cloud Compute and Storage assigned per protected system.
  • Asynchronous block level replication of your protected servers to the Cloud.
  • The ability to run your protected applications from the data center while in failover mode.
  • Remote Access into the Cloud for your users when the primary environment has failed.
  • Audit and reporting statistics on data transfer and failover status.
  • Hybrid hosting allows the utilization of internal private clouds in addition to public clouds.
  • Up to 250 servers connected to each Geminare Controller
  • Capability to add further Controllers, virtually eliminating the restriction on the number of connected server within an environment


Supported Applications

  • Microsoft File Services 2003, 2008
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010
  • Microsoft SQL Server® 2005, 2008
  • Microsoft IIS v6, v7, v7.5
  • Microsoft SharePoint 2007 SP2
  • MS Dynamics CRM 4.0
  • Blackberry Enterprise Servers (BES) 4.1.1- 4.1.6, 5.0.0
  • Oracle 10.x, 11.x, 11g R2 (Part of Cloud Recovery ENTERPRISE)

 

Cloud Recovery ENTERPRISE, Platforms Supported

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 (R1 and R2) Standard, Enterprise Edition, Web, DataCenter Editions, MSCS Cluster (32-Bit or 64-Bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL)
    • 4.8 (support lower versions like 4.7, etc) (x86, x86_64),
    • 5.5(support lower versions like 5.4, 5.3 etc) (x86, x86_64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
    • 9 (SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4) (x86, x86_64),
    • 10 (SP1, SP2, SP3)(x86, x86_64)
    • 11 (x86, x86_64)

 

All Cloud Recovery Installations Require the Following

  • Minimum of a DSL, Cable or greater high speed internet connection (Recommended high speed connection is T1 and greater depending on amount of data)
  • Network running Microsoft Active Directory 2003, 2008
     (for Windows environments)
  • Internet router capable of supporting a VPN IPSEC Tunnel
  • Mail server redirection requires access to DNS MX records
  • Administrator access on servers to be replicated
  • Minimum of 5GB of free disk space on each server being replicated

 



 

CLOUD STORAGE ASSURANCE – Indexing & Archiving Data Solutions

 

Supported Cloud Providers

  • Amazon S3
  • Iron Mountain Archive Service
  • Mezeo
  • Nirvanix
  • AT&T Synaptic
  • Rackspace
  • PEER1
  • … and many others

 

CSA 2.0 Includes

  • Flexible Cloud Platform Support
  • Private Cloud support including local data storage
  • Complete Data Protection, Data Integrity and Authentication Assurance with Unique Key Identifiers
  • Download Audit Trail with Unique Session ID and CSA 2.0 Receipt
  • Automated Archiving
  • High-speed Intelligent Search Functionality with Dynamic Tag Clouds, Predictive Searching and Nested Search Capabilities
  • REST-based Open API Architecture for integration with external applications
  • Support for most popular file formats
  • Built-in Security Controls for Data Retrieval
  • On-the-fly encryption of data stored in the cloud
  • Ability to run in indexing-only mode with early e-discovery capabilities
  • Inclusion of eDiscovery tools
  • Cloud migration support for moving data from one Cloud to another Cloud

 

Supported Platforms

  • File Servers
    • CSA 2.0 supports virtually all major file server platforms from Microsoft Windows to Linux and UNIX. The only requirement is SAMBA support.
  • Email Servers
    • CSA 2.0 natively supports Microsoft Exchange servers through the journaling capability. CSA 2.0 also supports many other mail server platforms and versions including both hosted and on-premise installations.

 



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