Traveller CPR

DataCore's Traveller CPR (Continuous Data Protection and Recovery) continually and asynchronously monitors, timestamps, and logs all data changes throughout the defined storage infrastructure, towards the goal of enabling administrators to recover the full state of the data at any point in the defined protection window. According to the vendor, the product is capable of capturing a cross-server, cross-application, and cross-storage group view of the data at exactly the same time. The application is deployed as software on standard PC servers and does not require the deployment of individual agents. The vendor further states that Traveller can protect data over distant and separate failover sites.

A key feature of the platform is its "dial back the clock" restoration methodology, in which the recovery administrator can select the day, time, and minute from which to restore data. The product captures an initial baseline and then captures individual data changes across the entire defined storage continuum, allowing the user to select any point in time (down to the minute) within the capture window (from days to years). Once the restore point in time is defined, the system will combine the stored and timestamped changes to create a consistent, virtual "MakeTime" volume, which can then be used independently to restore the original data, or for other time-shifting based usages, such as offline backups or data access requirements that can be processed simultaneously and separately from the production system (i.e., the production system continues serving live data to real-time systems, while other processes can be make use of the restored, virtual, "MakeTime" volume separately from the production infrastructure). According to the vendor, the virtual MakeTime volumes can be served to target hosts and systems through the Traveller's own point and click interface, and application servers will recognize and work with the volumes as the original storage assigned (mappings and required datasets are preserved).

Traveller CPR is available now, as either a stand alone product or as an upgrade option to the vendor's SANsymphony offering. As a stand alone product, Traveller is priced at $69,000 "...for a comprehensive data protection system solution...," while the SANsymphony upgrade is priced at $30,000.

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