Tintri Expands Integrated Data Protection and DR Solution With Synchronous Replication

Tintri, Inc. announced the availability of Synchronous Replication, an integral part of the firm’s Data Protection and DR (DP/DR) solution.

The solution offers integrated primary and secondary storage-including all the capabilities of virtualisation-aware storage (VAS) with compelling economics.

DP/DR solution is comprised of firm’s VMstore arrays and its highly differentiated ‘Software Suite’ – including Global Center, Synchronous Replication, ReplicateVM and SecureVM. The solution makes it to maintain operation and minimise recovery time and point objectives for mission critical applications. Native snapshot capabilities allow first line of defense data protection and recovery. The firm also integrates with backup solutions such as Veeam Software, Inc. (see) and Commvault Systems, Inc. (see) while using any secondary storage, and will soon also offer native protection of company’s snapshots from on-premises to public cloud storage through an S3 Connector.

With firm’s snapshot-based space saving features, the DP/DR solution offers compelling economics both in terms of efficiency and OpEx savings, even compared with secondary storage solutions. And the solution provides features that are not available from other providers, including full control and visibility of latency across host, network and storage for both primary and secondary storage and newly released Synchronous Replication.

“Going through the Sync Replication setup, I was pleasantly surprised to see how quickly and easily an environment could be protected with a zero RPO and near-zero-RTO SLA. This is paramount for mission critical workloads. Even better is the failover process – with a simple click of the mouse, a failover can be initiated. No longer are a team of specialists needed to coordinate this task, but rather a single generalist can do it,” said Matt Crape, manager, IT, C3 Group Inc.

Tintri Synchronous Replication
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Capabilities of DP/DR solution includes:

Snapshots as first line of defense. The company provides space-efficient snapshots that take onlys to create-storing only changed data blocks, with no performance impact. Default snapshot schedules protect every VM automatically; custom schedules allow users to meet specific data protection needs.
Fast recovery. With the firm’s solution you can restore at the VM, vDisk, folder or file level with a single click.And the company provides a test environment with local clones and replica snapshots at the secondary site without impacting production.
Flexible protection options. RPO of one minute, 15 minutes, or other desired levels can be set per-VM for asynchronous replication. And with Synchronous Replication, the solution achieves Zero RPO and near-zero RTOs with manual or planned failovers.

Tintri SecureVM
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Data security. Encryption of data at rest with AES-256 bit encryption offers real-time DP with no impact on application performance. Integration with Gemalto NV‘s Safenet KeySecure via the key management interoperability protocol lets you cryptographically lock arrays and conform to the highest security standards and regulatory requirements.

“Our enterprise customers are always looking for ways to simplify their infrastructure-DP / DR is a great example of where Tintri can help,” said Kieran Harty, CTO and co-founder, Tintri. “Tintri offers the flexibility to fully integrate VMstores as primary and secondary storage, connect to Veeam or Commvault and even backup to public cloud. And when organisations use Tintri in integrated fashion, our VM level operation ensures unmatched space savings and cost efficiencies with all the rich capabilities of primary storage.”

Resources:
DP and DR solution brief
Four minute demo to see how simple Synchronous Replication can be
ReplicateVM datasheet