While disaster recovery and business continuity planning are critical objectives for most organizations, the technical approach to implement the right strategy can vary widely depending upon the type and size of the organization, the relative importance of the data, and the geographic location of the business.
In addition, backup and recovery is a key part of the overall business continuance strategy. Protecting data becomes even more challenging with fast-growing amounts of data, new regulations for data retention, and shrinking recovery time objectives.
The Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture enables a highly efficient infrastructure to meet the widest range of data protection and recovery objectives in System z environments.
With more than 25 years of experience in ESCON and FICON remote storage networking and more than 3,000 customers around the world, Brocade can help design and deploy robust disaster recovery solutions that meet recovery objectives in the most cost-effective manner. Leveraging extension technology and unique emulation assists for System z disk and tape applications, Brocade optimizes performance over any distance, while ensuring data integrity.
By leveraging Brocades capabilities, organizations can benefit from:
- Maximum performance at any distance - local, metro, and long distance
- Support for synchronous or asynchronous data transfers
- Advanced network functionality - QoS that provides a reliable network
- Expertise in deployment, support, and ongoing management services
Moreover, Brocade backup and recovery solutions for ESCON and FICON environments help organizations with all facets of backup and recovery, from developing a more cost-effective enterprise backup and recovery strategy to looking at new disk-based alternatives that improve data availability. Leveraging unique Brocade FICON read and write tape performance acceleration techniques, tape and virtual tape resources can now be located anywhere, dramatically improving data backup and recovery time over any distance.
Brocade backup and recovery solutions include:
- Enterprise backup and recovery strategy, design, and implementation
- Enterprise backup consolidation
- Tape backup optimization
- Backup to virtual tape libraries
- Shared tape storage across multiple storage networks
- Remote tape vaulting
