Capelle aan den IJssel, 29 juli 2009 - Novell heeft een nieuwe versie van PlateSpin Protect gelanceerd. Met PlateSpin Protect 8.1 kan iedereen tot 50% sneller dan voorheen volledige workloads beschermen en herstellen binnen een fysieke of virtuele infrastructuur.
PlateSpin Protect voorziet in de beveiliging van volledige workloads door deze in het geheel te repliceren. Dit maakt flexibele image back-up en hardwareonafhankelijke reconstructie mogelijk alsook geconsolideerde recovery. Hierbij wordt gebruik gemaakt van virtualisatie als recovery platform voor zowel fysieke als virtuele workloads.
PlateSpin Protect 8.1 bevat een verbeterde Block-based transfer technologie. In tegenstelling tot traditionele transfer methodes, die volledige documenten kopiëren, wordt met Block-based transfer alleen de laatste wijziging gekopieerd. Wat duidelijk minder capaciteit van de disk en het netwerk vergt. Deze verbeterde Block-based transfer technologie is tot vijftig procent sneller dan voorheen.
PlateSpin Protect is een integraal onderdeel van Novell’s PlateSpin Virtualisatie en Workload Management oplossingen, waaronder ook PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Orchestrate en PlateSpin Forge vallen. Met Novell's PlateSpin Workload Management kunnen managers van datacentra workloads analyseren, configureren, migreren en de volledige lifecycle ervan beheren. Zij kunnen bovendien de verdeling van workloads optimaliseren, zodat gebruikers en applicaties op zowel fysieke als virtuele machines beschikken over de best mogelijke performance. In combinatie met het op policies gebaseerd aan- en afschakelen van virtuele machines biedt de oplossing organisaties optimale controle en voorspelbaarheid en een zeer hoge mate van continuïteit.
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PRESS RELEASE
Novell Releases PlateSpin Protect 8.1
Protects and restores workloads up to 50 % faster than previous versions
WALTHAM, Mass. -- July 29, 2009 -- Novell today announced the availability of PlateSpin Protect 8.1. With PlateSpin Protect 8.1 customers can protect and restore whole workloads, from both physical servers and virtual machines, up to 50 percent faster than before, shrinking backup windows and reducing the time needed to restore systems after an outage.
PlateSpin Protect provides the most flexible, reliable and cost-effective solution for protecting physical and virtual workloads in the data center and private cloud. Offering a range of protection alternatives in a single product, PlateSpin Protect provides better RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) than tape at a fraction of the cost of traditional clustering or replication solutions. PlateSpin Protect features:
- Consolidated recovery using warm-standby virtual machines as both the backup media and recovery environment. If a protected physical server goes down, the virtual machine copy of the workload can be running again in minutes using failover functionality not available in traditional backup tools. When the original physical server is replaced, customers can use PlateSpin Protect to failback from the virtual environment to the new physical server, even if the replacement server is a different model or brand. If the original server can be repaired, PlateSpin*s unique Server Sync technology makes the failback process even faster by intelligently copying back only the changes that occurred after the failover, instead of the entire workload.
- Incremental backups to PlateSpin Flexible Images. Image backups are easily transportable for remote or archival purposes and can quickly be restored either to a virtual machine on any supported virtualization platform, or to almost any physical server.
PlateSpin Protect 8.1 features an enhanced and highly robust block-based transfer technology. In contrast to traditional file-based transfers that copy entire files, block-based transfer technology replicates only changed blocks at the disk level, dramatically reducing the amount of data transferred. The enhanced block-based transfer technology in PlateSpin Protect 8.1 is up to 50 percent faster than previous versions, especially over slower high-latency WAN links. For customers replicating workloads over a WAN, faster replications mean lower bandwidth costs, shorter backup windows, and faster workload recovery times.
Other key new features in PlateSpin Protect 8.1 include:
- Server Sync block-based transfers significantly accelerate incremental replications;
- Support for virtual-to-physical Server Sync for failback scenarios and significantly lower restore time to an original repaired server after an outage;
- Support for vSphere 4, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista;
- File-level restore from protected workload images, reducing restore time when only a few files or folders, not the whole workload, is needed.
PlateSpin Protect is an integral component of Novell*s PlateSpin Virtualization and Workload Management solutions, which also include PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Orchestrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge. PlateSpin Virtualization and Workload Management solutions enable customers to profile, migrate, manage and protect server workloads and are part of the Novell Service-Driven Data Center which provides solutions to build, manage and measure the next generation data center. Only PlateSpin Virtualization and Workload Management supports the Solaris OS, 32-and 64-bit Windows and Linux servers, as well as all leading hypervisors including VMware vSphere, ESX and ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Virtual Iron, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server with integrated Xen. With PlateSpin Workload Management solutions, customers can consolidate and migrate servers across multiple data center locations, balance workloads between physical servers and virtual machines, and protect a larger number of servers with faster recovery using virtualization.
Availability
PlateSpin Protect 8.1 is available now. For more information, visit
www.platespin.com/products/protect About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology to work as one. For more information, visit
www.novell.com.