InMage Solutions for Cloud Computing

Given new developments in server and storage infrastructure, cloud computing is an emerging market that will clearly have a huge impact on how computing services are delivered to end users going forward. With their simplified model to deliver sophisticated capabilities, flexible scalability, and cost advantages, enterprises of all sizes will be taking advantage of them. And they will do so both in the form of external clouds as well as internal clouds.

Heterogeneous, asynchronous replication is a key enabling technology for cloud computing. But not all replication architectures are a good match for cloud computing. The right architectures must be able to deliver on end user requirements such as simplified and flexible deployment, low server overhead, security, and cost-effective pricing – both at the entry level and as configurations are scaled.

InMage is a leading enabler of cloud computing for both direct customers as well as service providers. InMage solutions can be used to

  • Enable a variety of disaster recovery and/or full-blown business continuity capabilities
  • Provide cost-effective remote office and backup consolidation solutions that scale easily up or down
  • Offer industry-leading data recovery capabilities that cover operational (daily) data recovery as well as remote (disaster) recovery in a single, integrated services offering
  • Automate application failover/failback from on-premise to cloud facilities

InMage-based solutions offer industry-leading data and application recovery capabilities that enable you to offer significant value for your customers. You can eliminate their backup windows and all the overhead and administrative hassles of backup, meet their most stringent recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) requirements, improve their recovery reliability, and minimize or eliminate tape handling in their environments.

Our unique combination of next generation data protection technologies, including continuous data protection (to support immediate data recovery to any previous point in time), heterogeneous asynchronous replication (to support DR requirements without any impacts to production applications), WAN optimization (to support extremely efficient replication), application failover/failback (to make application service recovery rapid and reliable), and disk-based recovery (which supports physical and/or virtual disks), offer the features needed to make maximum use of cloud infrastructure:

  • A simple, rapid deployment model that does not require on-site premises hardware and can be done remotely
  • A flexible solution that supports heterogeneous servers and storage as well as Windows, Linux, or Unix-based application environments
  • A very low overhead model that makes it perfect not only for physical servers but also for virtual server environments based around either VMware, Citrix, or Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Integrated WAN optimization technologies that keep costs down while requiring minimal WAN bandwidth, making InMage the most WAN-efficient DR solution on the market today
  • Secure, multi-tenancy management features that enable extremely large administrative spans of control while supporting the necessary tracking metrics for server and storage growth, I/O workload management, and chargeback

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Cloud Computing Presentations
InMage Solutions for Cloud Environments (Nov 09)
The Future of Cloud Computing in Ten Years, Keynote at Nth Generation Technical Symposium (Aug 09)