Asempra Business Continuity Server

Mid-market companies live and breathe on continuous access to their email, database and file servers, primarily Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows file servers. Any interruption of access to these critical applications and data files drastically impacts business operations. Now there is a technology to ensure outages don’t happen.

Data migration has proven to be one of the greatest threats to continuous applications and data availability. Statistics show that 75 percent of organizations will suffer an unplanned outage this year and there is an even higher chance if they are executing a data migration operation. A data migration project whereby a company is either upgrading the physical server hardware or upgrading the application software is not the time to consider implementing a business continuity solution for the applications. This should be done prior to these changes, to ensure no data loss and that any downtime is limited to seconds, not hours or days. The avoidance of an outage, with the associated costs of downtime, can pay back the $25,000 to $35,000 average cost to have instant recovery for Microsoft Exchange or an SQL application.
 
Traditionally, data migration operations were initiated to facilitate upgrades, from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to 2007 for example, or to create a duplicate copy of a Microsoft SQL database to facilitate data mining. Today, data migration use is more pervasive. It includes server and storage consolidation, server virtualization, to employ multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, and load balancing data when new storage arrays are added, and re-locating data off of storage devices for end of life, and lease expirations.  

IT departments have sought to mitigate this business continuity threat by deploying multiple backup and Continuous Data Protection applications that only address specific pieces of the problem, require extensive manual intervention and still don’t solve the problem of the extended recovery times to get an Exchange, SQL or Windows server up and running.   

A better solution exists with the Asempra Technologies, Inc. Business Continuity Server. The BCS is an application-aware solution that recovers critical applications and data for Exchange, SQL or Windows File Servers in just seconds or minutes, well before traditional recovery technologies. With Asempra’s application availability and patent-pending Virtual On-Demand Recovery technology, applications can restart immediately, eliminating the need to wait hours or days for a complete storage recovery for the applications to be restored.  With continuous availability and instant recovery assured by the BCS, employees and customers can access the services and information they need without waiting in frustration.

Business Continuity Server components

The BCS eliminates the impact of migration-induced server failures with a real-time continuous data protection technology ensures that all data is protected.  Flexible recovery techniques allow roll-back to any point-in-time. And patented event capture and indexing techniques eliminate potential data corruption, so recovered data is 100 percent usable on the first recovery, without the need for lengthy data verification operations that further impact data and application availability.