Frequently Asked Questions

How Is InMage unique and why does that matter to me?

InMage is the only block-based data and application recovery solution on the market that supports CDP, asynchronous replication over IP, automated application failover/failback, and WAN optimization. These technologies are combined in a single platform that is the most WAN-efficient DR solution on the market today.

This matters because as data continues to grow at explosive rates, limited network bandwidth is becoming more of an issue for enterprises of all sizes. Bandwidth limitations have been a key inhibitor to deploying DR solutions cost effectively, and InMage overcomes this barrier, enabling the deployment of DR solutions less expensively, making it a viable option for smaller companies and many smaller projects at larger companies where it could not be previously justified. This also matters because your recovery requirements must cover more than just your data, they must provide options to recover applications in situations where that is required. Manual recovery operations take longer, are very dependent upon the skill set of the administrator, and are potentially fraught with risk. By automating full application recovery, InMage can meet more stringent RTO requirements more reliably and without concern for the skill of the administrator, giving you better recovery operations with less administrative overhead.

Application Recovery Program: The Faster, Easier Way to Deploy & Recover

Sometimes you need to recover just data, and sometimes you need to recover an entire application. The world's best replication and backup solutions just recover data, requiring separate products, tools, and activities to recover applications. Application recovery is defined as the process necessary to recover an application service, like Exchange or Oracle, when that service has failed (due to hardware, software, or network issues). Administrators will generally either do application recovery manually, which is a time-consuming, risky proposition that is very dependent upon the skill set of the administrator, or they will deploy some form of clustering technology. Clustering technologies can shorten recovery times and improve recovery reliability, but because they require the introduction of a separate product, they add to configuration complexity and cost. InMage is a high availability application suite that effectively manages requirements for any application recovery.

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High Availablity Solution – Customized Automated Application Recovery

Among products that support data recovery, InMage stands out as a high availability solution that supports automated application recovery capabilities that are tailored to specific application environments. When you buy InMage, you are getting a local CDP engine, combined with an asynchronous replication engine, which can manage application failover and failback either remotely or locally. This consolidated recovery platform can replace multiple existing products, synergistically combining related recovery operations, shortening application recovery times, improving application recovery reliability, and lowering costs. Our engineering group has taken a common recovery template and implemented the specific recovery processes that are required for key enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint as well as Oracle, MySQL, Blackberry Server, and SAP. These recovery steps will create a selected recovery image, start the application and associated services, mount the selected recovery point, and update AD and DNS entries so that users can transparently access the recovered application service without realizing that it is being supported on a different server. These application recovery capabilities are tested by InMage for reliability, and are fully supported and documented. The recovery template can be used to automate application recovery operations for any crash-tolerant application, allowing InMage to manage high availability requirements for any application.