This solution brief, jointly published by Dell and Certeon, discusses the approaches and benefits of a multi-vendor approach when seeking to accelerate business continuity through virtualization.

The Lay of the Land

Backup and recovery as part of an organizations business continuity planning is a mission critical operation. Organizations must plan for and run their backup and recovery efforts as they would any production 24/7 business application. Delays in the speed and efficiency of backup and recovery operations are not acceptable. Backup and data replication between remote sites at LAN-like speed over the wide area network (WAN) is the expectation.

The Problem

Organizations that need to deploy business continuity capabilities over a WAN can run into a number of challenges that can interfere with the ability to meet and beat recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) goals. These challenges can include, but are not limited to: low bandwidth, high latency, network congestion, chatty protocols, and redundant data transmission.

The Solution

aCelera Sync is a backup and data replication acceleration virtual appliance. aCelera runs in a virtual machine (VM) infrastructure and enables faster and more efficient data replication and backup over the WAN.

Dell EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI storage technology can virtualize the entire storage area network (SAN), simplifying deployment, maintenance, and management. A virtualized EqualLogic PS Series SAN automatically applies storage resources where and when they are needed without administrator intervention or manual tuning.

Developer in partnership, Dell EqualLogic and aCelera Sync provide fast virtualized backup and replication, reduce chatty protocols, virtualize storage, and improve performance to accelerate return on investment (ROI).

The Results

By combining aCelera Sync and Dell EqualLogic PS Series arrays within a virtual infrastructure, organizations will significantly optimize backup and replication performance across the WAN.

A current user states, “Our existing network optimization environment was not transmitting data between our data center and recovery site fast enough. We required more and more bandwidth to get the job done. With aCelera Sync and Dell EqualLogic SANs we gained an up to 90% reduction in network bandwidth consumption and data backup time.”

To read more about this jointly developed solution, download the solution brief here.