2010 News Releases

InMage’s New vContinuum Software Offers SMBs Simplified Backup and Replication for VMware Virtual Environments

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 27, 2010 – InMage® (www.inmage.com) today announced vContinuum, a new software product designed for disk backup and disaster recovery of VMware ESX/vSphere virtual machine (VM) environments. Based on continuous data protection technology, InMage vContinuum offers small and medium-sized businesses a single, cost-effective solution for backup and replication in virtual environments. Highlights of vContinuum include: elimination of backup windows (data is backed up to disk real-time 24x7); application consistency (on Windows and Linux); long-term data retention on disk; file-level recovery within seconds; and optimized utilization of target storage capacity (target VMs are thin provisioned).

“We were initially looking to perform array-based replication and SRM, but compatibility was a big issue given our mixed storage environment,” said John Etheridge, IT Director, Niemann Capital Management. “InMage vContinuum is platform-agnostic, performing exceptionally well in heterogeneous IT infrastructures with mixed platforms and storage. It was affordable and quick to implement, which made it even more attractive for our needs. We are currently using InMage vContinuum to replicate about 35 virtual machines and plan to expand our use in the future.”

vContinuum’s wizard-based graphical user interface (GUI) offers a convenient way to perform application-aware protection and recovery at the VM level. It automates VM discovery, creation of protection policies, operational recovery scenarios and performs true push-button failover and failback operations. Additionally, vContinuum’s unique host-offload architecture greatly minimizes impact on production VMs. This model can scale very easily to accommodate increased production VMs or storage capacities by pointing them to an existing vContinuum server or provisioning additional ones as required. vContinuum can also accommodate any underlying hardware, storage architecture (DAS, SAN, NAS) and storage technology (SCSI, iSCSI, FC). This provides businesses with maximum flexibility in planning and provisioning a cost-effective secondary infrastructure for backup or replication.

“Small and medium-sized businesses are rapidly moving towards virtualizing their physical servers using VMware,” said Jerome Wendt, analyst, DCIG. “As they do, they're also looking to minimize the cost, complexity and overhead that backup of VMware servers introduces while increasing their ability to recover their newly virtualized applications. InMage’s new vContinuum software addresses these needs by providing zero impact backups with near real-time recoveries.”

InMage vContinuum addresses the common problem of backup windows encroaching into business hours on production VMs. Since data changes are tracked and transmitted in real-time to the server, there are absolutely no backup windows on production VMs and zero IO overhead. vContinuum simply requires a server, management console and a master target VM on the secondary ESX/vSphere host to implement. The master target VM serves as a replication target for multiple production VMs. The solution can scale very easily by adding servers and master targets as needed. By extending backup and DR solutions to physical servers through a seamless upgrade to InMage Scout, vContinuum offers a consistent approach to protect, manage and recover both virtual and physical environments.

About InMage

InMage is the leading independent software vendor of disk-based, business application recovery solutions for both physical and virtualized environments. The company’s integrated recovery software supports both local and remote backup and disaster recovery, performing exceptionally well in heterogeneous IT infrastructures with mixed platforms and storage. Customers can address stringent disaster recovery requirements, backup problems and application availability with one product, where multiple products were once required. InMage is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with additional offices in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit www.inmage.com.

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