Remote Data Replication Consulting Services by Abtech Systems

One of the least understood and most expensive parts of disaster preparedness is data mirroring and replication. Abtech Systems, in cooperation with our business partners, have developed a sound, end-to-end solution practice based around replication.

Replication requires more than just a phone call. It is an intensive view of your data – data retention requirements, network capabilities, commonality of data paths and processing speeds. Every facet of your data center, storage and networking must be individually analyzed to find the weakest link to ensure that there are no bottlenecks in the chain.

Replication can be at the file level which is very common with windows environments, block level in fibre channel environments and some combination of the two in mixed environments where there is both file data on directly attached storage and database or block level data in the same fabric. Sorting all of that out can be a challenge and Abtech has qualified sales engineers and vendor specialist who can help define and implement a replication plan.

Abtech’s replication business partners are experts in snapshot, block level replication that is prevalent in today’s enterprise data center. The goal is to take centrally managed storage and recover it in minutes rather than hours or days to shorten the RTO – Return To Operations in a disaster scenario. This concept isn’t new. Companies have been doing it for years. Unfortunately, for the users, the only way to replicate a million dollar storage array was to use another million dollar storage array at the DR site. Abtech has solutions that eliminate this requirement.

Everyone wants to have a DR site or at least a DR plan that includes replication for data. The DR site may never get turned on so the cost of replicating becomes a major barrier for business continuity. By utilizing the Abtech methodology, lower cost secondary storage arrays can be utilized at the DR site mitigating the high cost of replication.

To get a better understanding of Remote Data Replication ask your Abtech sales consultant to schedule a briefing.