Syncsort Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

Syncsort, Inc. has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers. Through this alliance, Syncsort and VMware customers can achieve enhanced flexibility and performance of backup and recovery, reduced hardware requirements and ease-of-use for virtual environments. The result is a rapid return on investment for customers deploying server virtualization.

Syncsort’s Backup Express (BEX) has been uniquely architected to integrate seamlessly with VMware, reducing network traffic, storage requirements and backup windows by more than 90 percent. All this is accomplished with little or no impact on the performance of applications. BEX Instant Virtualization utilizes point-in-time server snapshots to provide immediate access to data, applications and operating system, permitting business to continue nearly uninterrupted. The solution makes it simple and cost-effective to protect critical applications and vital data in VMware environments.

"Backup Express easily integrates with our existing VMware Infrastructure," said Timothy J. Patterson, Systems Administrator at Saginaw Valley State University. "Using Backup Express Zero-Impact Virtual Machine Protection, VMware Infrastructure backups are fast, application-consistent and do not impact our virtual infrastructure. In addition, BEX Instant Virtualization allows us to quickly move data and applications between virtual machines and protects us against business interruptions."

Virtualization is bringing significant benefits to companies seeking to contain storage and server costs and support IT infrastructure consolidation while reducing environmental impact. BEX maximizes the benefits of virtualization by bringing high performance data protection and recovery to critical applications running on VMware ESX hosts.

"Our customers can not only virtualize their smaller applications and test development servers but also move critical applications into production on VMware Infrastructure while still maintaining application performance and meeting the same demanding RPOs and RTOs production apps require," according to Harvey Tessler, Sr. VP of Marketing and Product Management at Syncsort. "Deploying BEX within a VMware environment accelerates companies’ return on investment in virtualization by efficiently managing infrastructure consolidation for all potential applications, thus speeding time-to-value."

Customers are using the capabilities of BEX to fully leverage their VMware investments. "BEX’s unique source-side data reduction makes our backups extremely fast while also significantly reducing the network and hardware footprint, and there is no degradation of application performance," said Ralph Casero, Unix System Administrator for insurance services company Avmed. "It is simple to back up from physical to virtual, virtual to physical, or virtual to virtual. And our disaster recovery testing was a snap."

"We are excited to welcome Syncsort as the newest member of the VMware TAP program," said Bernie Mills, Senior Director, Alliance Programs, VMware. "The VMware TAP program offers companies like Syncsort the tools and resources they need to develop high-value solutions that meet the needs of our mutual customers."