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Solutions Disaster Recover
and Business Continuity Testing with Network Emulators
Does your business have a Disaster Recovery Plan that involves Remote
Storage of Data?
Are you looking at ways to replicate data and send it to backup sites
hundreds of miles away from your headquarters as part of your business
continuity planning?
Questions for IT Managers:
* Which things are most important to test before implementing a remote
storage plan?
* How do you validate a disaster recovery solution as easily and inexpensively
as possible?
* How do you emulate different network SLAs (in terms of error free seconds,
% throughput and bit error rate) and determine if they are sufficient
to meet your company's needs?
* How do you develop an ongoing maintenance plan to ensure that your remote
storage operation continues to function effectively?
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning are vital requirements
for any business. Driven by mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley , DR/BC has
become a critical agenda item for IT Executives.
For many corporations, remote storage is a key ingredient in their disaster
recovery and business continuity planning. In addition to the business
need, in many industries, such as banking and health care, remote storage
may soon be a regulatory requirement . For example, qualifying financial
enterprises may have to maintain an alternative backup site that is 200
- 300 miles away from the primary site, according to the Federal Reserve
and SEC. Click here to learn more about Regulatory Requirements.
Establishing a remote storage operation, however, creates many challenges,
particularly in the case of a synchronous remote storage solution. Depending
on distance, transmission latency could have a significant impact on various
applications. Errors on the network are also a concern. These issues,
if not addressed, can result in lost data and lost business to a corporation.
The bottom line is you must test your remote storage solution before deployment.
To meet this need of validating Data Center Backup solutions in a lab
environment before going live, many corporations are using Network Emulators
from Anue Systems. Anue's Network Emulators simulate real world delays
and errors that occur as data is transmitted over long distances.
Delays and errors on a storage network due to distance, congestion and
other factors create problems that need to be identified and addressed
before any remote storage or disaster recovery solution is complete. There
is no easier, more cost effective way to simulate delays and impairments
over Fibre Channel, IP and/or SONET networks than with Anue Network Emulators.
* Anue's products are perfect for stress testing networks and network
devices
o You can use the Anue Delay Emulator to delay a Fibre Channel, Gigabit
Ethernet or SONET (OC3 to OC192) signal a user-specified amount of time
without modifying the data. This simulates the latency that occurs over
WANs, MANs and interconnected SANs much more accurately than using spools
of fiber.
o The Anue Emulator can progressively increase the injected Bit Errors
and can error or eliminate specific packets to facilitate the testing
of signal fail/degrade algorithms.
* Anue provides multi-protocol Emulators
o You can combine Anue's Fibre Channel, GigE or SONET loads on one system
in order test many types of connections (such as iSCSI/iFCP/FCiP) at a
competitive price.
* Anue allows Software Application Layer Testing
o Testing the effects of latency and errors on critical software applications
can be done using Anue's Emulators regardless of the underlying WAN protocol.
For example, you can tune your remote storage solutions to make sure critical
transactions don't "time out" as a result of distance latency.
This can be done without the complicated setup of an entire network of
switches, optical fiber, protocol mappers, etc.
Since 1997, Gillaspy Associates has built
a solid reputation for developing strong relationships with our customers
by providing quality solutions and ongoing support.
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Network Emulation vs. Fiber Spools
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Case Study: Remote Storage and Disaster
Recovery
Learn how Anue Network Emulators helped a large insurance company
validate its remote storage solution. More...
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