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Disaster Recovery

Are You Prepared for Disaster?

• Emulate data center and server failures
• Characterize recovery of storage systems from backup data centers
• Comply with regulatory mandates

Driven by mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley, Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity (DR/BC) has become a critical agenda item for IT executives. As a result, DR/BC testing has risen in importance.

For many corporations, remote storage is a key ingredient in their disaster recovery and business continuity planning. In addition to the business need, in many industries, such as banking and health care, remote storage may soon be a regulatory requirement. For example, qualifying financial enterprises may have to maintain an alternative backup site 200-300 miles from the primary site, according to the Federal Reserve and SEC.

Learn more about Regulatory Requirements.

Establishing a remote storage operation creates many challenges, particularly in the case of a synchronous remote storage solution. Depending on distance, transmission latency can have a significant impact on applications. Errors on the network can affect response times and data integrity. These issues, if not addressed, can result in lost data and lost business to a corporation. The bottom line: you must conduct remote storage and disaster recovery testing of your solution before deployment.

To meet this need of validating data recovery plans in a lab environment before going live, many corporations use network emulators from Anue Systems.

• Anue Network Emulators are perfect for stress testing networks and network devices

• Disaster recovery testing can be conducted using the Anue Emulator to delay Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet or SONET (OC3 to OC192) signal a user-specified amount of time without modifying the data.
• This simulates the latency that occurs over WANs, MANs and interconnected SANs much more accurately than using spools of fiber.
• Progressively increase the injected bit error rate and error rate or eliminate specific packets to faciliate testing of signal fail/ degrade algorithms.

 

• Anue provides multi-protocol emulators

• Combine Anue's Fibre Channel, GigE or SONET loads on one system to cost-effectively test many types of connections (such as iSCSI/iFCP/FCiP).

 

• Anue allows software application layer testing

• Test the effects of latency and errors on critical software applications using Anue Network Emulators regardless of the underlying WAN protocol. For example, you can tune your remote storage solutions to make sure critical transactions don't time out as a result of distance latency. This can be achieved without the complicated setup of an entire network of switches, optical fiber, protocol mappers, etc.