Data Replication

BakBone's replication software, NetVault® Replicator, has been chosen by SGI as the replication technology to power SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions.

NetVault® Replicator will offer continuous, byte-level data replication across SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS product line and is available as an option for SGI Altix servers. BakBone's NetVault Replicator offers the broadest Linux capabilities including IA64 CPU support.

For the highest levels of availability, disaster recovery and business continuity, the NetVault® Replicator provides continuous, cross-platform data replication over standard IP networks. With NetVault® Replicator, customers can centrally manage both real-time and scheduled replication across multiple sites for a wide variety of server platforms and storage devices. This unique flexibility reduces deployment costs and TCO by enabling customers to create a tiered solution that matches system and network resources to the value of the data.

SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions combine high performance and scalability with appliance-like simplicity. Each shared-storage platform efficiently scales in storage capacity, file directory size, and performance by providing base platform options that can support the exponential data growth for today's business and digital media application workload. Combined with BakBone's NetVault® Replicator functionality, SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solution solves critical customer needs in areas such as:

  • High Availability - Solves stringent data availability requirements, even over long distances by offering continuous, byte-level replication
  • Research - Simplifies replication of research-critical data to secondary systems, preserving and protecting primary research data
  • Digital Content Distribution - Distributes and protects large digital media assets stored on digital media severs
  • Data Asset Consolidation/Migration - Streamlines migration of data assets from legacy storage devices to new NAS architecture solutions, or for remote data consolidation to a centralized data center
  • Test and Development - Automates replication of production data to other non-production systems for test & development environments or decision support applications