The large majority of data loss issues are operational in nature and result from user error, logical application errors, or database corruption and the ability to recover lost data is highly dependent on the backup and recovery infrastructure in place. Furthermore, it is widely recognized that over 90% of data loss and data recovery requests occur within the first twenty-four hours, and traditional backup typically occurs on a daily basis capturing only the changes since the last backup. Clearly this approach is unacceptable for most organizations and leaves critical data and applications unprotected between backups. InMage’s DR-Scout enables real-time continuous local backup and recovery as well as remote disaster recovery all within a single solution. DR-Scout performs streamlined data replication based on block-level differences and real time data changes eliminating the risk of data loss that can occur between traditional backups/snapshots.

 

While the IT industry has embraced disk-based backup to enable faster backup and restore times, traditional backup applications still present a huge gap in the ability to deliver improved recovery-point objectives that business critical applications demand. InMage has raised the bar in enabling not just point in time restoration but also event-based restorations. DR-Scout allows organizations to tag “event” bookmarks and use them for fast recovery and failover point selection. Unlike other vendors who simply time-stamp each block to enable restoration to a given point of time, InMage actually understands the application state allowing for application consistent restorations. This critical difference allows organizations to restore back to a given event or a given point in time and be assured that the application will come up correctly. 

 

Organizations can feel confident utilizing DR-Scout for their entire backup and recovery solution or can utilize DR-Scout as an adjunct to their existing backup application; DR-Scout works well in traditional backup environments by allowing organizations to offload the production environment and create an out-of-band backup environment where the backup server is using the continuously updated data replica as the source for all backups. This results in the optimal mix of recovery point and recovery time objectives.

 

Figure 1 depicts the importance of choosing the appropriate disaster recovery technology based upon careful consideration of the desired Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO); InMage’s CDP-based DR-Scout solution allows for the optimal RPO/RTO mix.

 

The DR-Scout product suite brings business continuity to a whole new level. Organizations can feel confident knowing that their core business applications and data will have unparalleled availability with the industry leading CDP solution. Furthermore, in addition to providing one of the most flexible CDP architectures available, DR-Scout offers an extensive suite of application aware solutions to meet the broader needs of any organization such as Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP and Sharepoint. When it comes to protecting your data, DR-Scout is the only solution that provides a cost-effective easy to manage CDP solution throughout the entire data center. Continuous local backup is now the new paradigm and DR-Scout delivers.