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| PlateSpin Unveils PowerConvert 6.6 PlateSpin has announced enhancements to its PowerConvert solution that enables customers to manage and move workloads at will across a variety of virtual and physical infrastructures in the data center. This release provides new workload protection capabilities for the growing number of PlateSpin's medium and large data center customers worldwide that are unifying their approach to common operational initiatives including workload relocation, provisioning, protection and optimization. PlateSpin PowerConvert 6.6 provides a wide range of workload protection alternatives in a single product for maximum flexibility at the lowest cost. Using PowerConvert, customers can choose any combination of the following to protect workloads in the data center: flexible image backup and restore, consolidated recovery using virtual infrastructure or whole server physical workload replication. In addition to file-based replication, PowerConvert 6.6 now includes high-speed block-level replication, making it ideal for real-world, enterprise-scale workload protection scenarios and multi-site disaster recovery implementations. The addition of block-level replication enables enterprise customers to protect larger databases and so-called "stateful" applications, such as mail servers, where the continuity of transactional information, configuration settings and data must be maintained. When used in combination with PowerRecon 3.0, PlateSpin's advanced workload profiling, analysis and planning solution, customers can effectively choose the best protection strategy for each workload in the data center based on a thorough time-based workload profile and real-time resource utilization data. PlateSpin PowerConvert provides the flexibility to configure and optimize the data center by streaming servers between physical machines, blade infrastructures, virtual machines and image archives over the network. PowerConvert is the first and only solution that decouples data, applications and operating systems from the underlying server hardware and automatically streams them to any physical server or virtual machine host. PowerConvert is the workload transfer engine that powers PlateSpin's PowerSolution for Disaster Recovery, the world's first DR solution to leverage virtual infrastructures to provide a flexible and affordable solution for backing up production servers to any virtual or physical recovery environment. New Features in PowerConvert 6.6: - Block-Level Replication – In addition to file-based replication, PowerConvert now provides high-speed block-level replication to further enhance the product's data protection and disaster recovery capabilities. With block-level transfer, only the portion of a file that has changed is replicated, making it ideal for incrementally synchronizing larger database servers and enabling efficient offsite data transfers. Block-level replication is offered as an option at a premium price. - Server Sync – Customers can now perform an incremental transfer to a server workload without first having to perform a full PowerConvert server conversion. By separating full and incremental transfers, customers gain more flexibility in performing file-based transfers over the network to a remote recovery site, especially when slow-speed connections are the only options. - Wizards and Easy Job Configuration – With intuitive built-in conversion logic and an updated drag-and-drop interface, PowerConvert reduces learning curves and shortens the time to complete projects. Additionally, new purpose-built wizards for common tasks and mature job configuration capabilities have been added to make the process of configuring anywhere-to-anywhere workload movement faster, easier and more reliable. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Networking News :: home page |