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| FilesX Announces Availability of Xpress Restore Version 3.5 FilesX has announced the general availability of Xpress Restore version 3.5, its flagship disk-based, block-level data protection and disaster recovery platform. Staying true to its commitment to continually meet the growing and changing needs of its customers, the new release of Xpress Restore features the addition of dissimilar hardware support for Bare Metal Recovery, integrated protection for the backup server, simplified installation and other enhancements that enrich FilesX' data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. Xpress Restore's support for almost any Microsoft Windows server hardware platform allows near-instant failover between physical servers, virtual servers or both. This new functionality provides for extremely cost-effective business continuity and resiliency by eliminating the need for maintaining a one-to-one, exact duplicate set of hardware. The dissimilar hardware BMR support in Xpress Restore 3.5 also serves as an excellent tool for application testing environments and for migrating from legacy to next-generation server platforms. As part of the HP Developer and Solution Partner Program, FilesX Xpress Restore is supported on HP servers and storage. With the broad portfolio of HP StorageWorks SAN and NAS solutions, FilesX can provide the scalability and flexibility for a complete information lifecycle management solution. Xpress Restore 3.5 provides the ability to install a backup client on the same server as the backup repository. This capability is ideal for multifunction storage server systems such as the HP StorageWorks AiO that require both on-board and disaster recovery protection. This also has particular appeal to small office environments where there is only one server and adding a separate backup server is not warranted. Xpress Restore 3.5 offers wizard-based installation for the application server, the backup server, and the centralized DR server. These new wizards greatly improve the speed and accuracy of installing the various Xpress Restore components throughout the environment, based on best-in-class practices observed in hundreds of FilesX client installations. Instant restore capabilities for individual files and entire volumes for x64 and IA64 platforms have been added in Xpress Restore Version 3.5. Policy-based alerts will trigger an alert e-mail when Xpress Restore detects problems in the backup and DR processes. Alerts can be customized to meet the specific needs of administrators and system managers. Additionally, FilesX has incorporated a wide range of performance and robustness enhancements to the Xpress Restore-DR module, enabling far more data to be selectively replicated between remote offices, data centers and disaster recovery sites using existing WAN bandwidth. These improvements include: - Multi-threading of the WAN pipeline to enable 100 percent bandwidth utilization; - Parallel processing of local and remote DR jobs to ensure continual protection; - Bundling of small files to dramatically reduce WAN latency; - Policy-based retention of DR data sets enhances storage resource utilization. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |