Axxana emerged from “stealth mode” today at Storage Networking World with the introduction of its unique Enterprise Data Recording (EDR) technology. Axxana’s innovation is the first-ever to enable 100% disaster recovery with no data loss, over any geographical distance; all with significant cost savings. Axxana’s first EDR system combines the data-recovery certainties of synchronous replication with the distance and cost advantages of asynchronous replication. The result is a complete shift in the way enterprises will architect their data-center strategies.
TEL AVIV, Israel and DALLAS (Business Wire EON) October 13, 2008 --
Axxana
emerged from “stealth mode”
today at Storage Networking World with the introduction of its unique
Enterprise Data Recording (EDR) technology. Axxana’s
innovation is the first-ever to enable 100% disaster recovery with no
data loss, over any geographical distance; all with significant cost
savings. Axxana’s first EDR system combines
the data-recovery certainties of synchronous replication with the
distance and cost advantages of asynchronous replication. The result is
a complete shift in the way enterprises will architect their data-center
strategies.
Until today, existing data protection methods –
such as backup/restore, replication or CDP –
have been bound by same limitation: all data that required protection
had to be transported out of the primary data center prior to a
disaster. In contrast, Axxana’s technology
completely protects enterprise data inside a “disaster-proof”
EDR device, an enterprise equivalent to the indestructible “black
box” flight-data recorders used to recover
post-crash aircraft data.
“Axxana’s
announcement of ‘EDR’
as a new domain in replication-enabled Disaster Recovery is intriguing,”
noted IDC Research Manager, Noemi Greyzdorf. “This
new concept of an Enterprise Black Box may force us to totally
reevaluate how data centers ensure zero data loss and full data recovery
over traditionally long distances.”
Since its founding in 2005, Axxana has been heavily engaged in research
and development of its unique disaster recovery solution. The technology
is the first to achieve all of the following:
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Zero post-disaster data loss (RPO=0,
as with synchronous replication)
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Unlimited distance to DR data center (as with asynchronous replication)
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Quick data recovery (very short RTO)
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Significant operational-cost reductions for data protection by
enabling the use of existing data center assets, and low-cost
commodity communication lines
Innovation around enterprise data protection has historically focused on
removing data from the primary location as quickly and as completely as
possible for remote safekeeping. Axxana’s
novel approach is the first ever to view data removal alone as expensive
and inherently incomplete. Instead, enabled by an advanced collection of
highly ruggedized storage, electronics, and materials technologies,
Axxana’s EDR actually brings the data “through
the disaster,” ensuring the full
survivability of otherwise lost data within the enterprise site itself.
The result is rapid post-disaster application recovery, with no data
loss whatsoever. The technology also expands the scenarios under which
synchronous replication protects data, such as an on-site communication
link failure or regional disaster.
“Axxana is the only vendor to blend the full
data-recovery advantages of synchronous data replication with the
distance and cost advantages of asynchronous data replication,”
said Eli Efrat, Axxana’s Chief Executive
Officer. “This is a game-changing concept in
disaster recovery, and we invite storage vendors and enterprises to join
with us and explore the full potential of this technology.”
Deployment of Axxana’s EDR allows
organizations to eliminate longstanding operational shortcomings of
existing DR technologies, including:
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Recovery failure as a result of inconsistent data inherent in
asynchronous replication scenarios – all
replication is now synchronous
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Tedious and never-ending data classification between critical and
non-critical data – all data is now
protected
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Data loss due to primary-to-secondary site link failure in synchronous
replication scenario – in the event of link
failure, all data is now replicated
Axxana is already receiving a warm welcome from the Storage industry:
“Axxana is creating a new category of data
protection solutions aimed at companies that have always-on business
requirements,” remarked Jon Toigo, CEO of
Toigo Partners International. “The deltas or
data differences posed by asynchronous WAN-based data replication may
just have found their answer in Axxana’s
innovative approach. Worth a closer look.”
“It is for the first time that I see a
solution that enables a failover site at any distance with the ability
to absolutely recover all transactions.” said
Moshe Yanai, executive chairman of XIV and IBM Fellow.
“At NM Rothschild, we believe we should
protect all of our data, not just transactional but unstructured data
such as e-mail and Office documents as well as other non-transactional
information,” said Steve Pikett, Head of IT
at N M Rothschild & Sons. “Axxana’s
black box will allow us to protect all of our data in a synchronous way,
using our existing European data centers and without applying an
unreasonable level of cost to do so. We have to be certain that if we
needed to recover, the data will be there.”
Recently listed among Network Magazine’s 10
data storage companies to watch, Axxana was founded by industry
veterans who are widely-respected for their broad experience in the
security, hardware and data storage markets. The company was founded
based on innovation by CTO Dr. Alex Winokur, previously CTO of
XIV (acquired by IBM), co-founder of Sepaton and senior manager of
storage research and development activities at the IBM Haifa Research
Lab in Israel.
Axxana has partnered with leading storage vendors, and with them, plans
to make its first product available in the first quarter of 2009.
About Axxana
Axxana was co-founded by veterans of the storage industry in order to
address the number one challenge in data protection; recovering data at
any distance with zero data loss. Axxana provides a compelling solution
that is set to change the face of Disaster Recovery. Axxana has
introduced a new domain in the Data Protection arena, namely Enterprise
Data Recording (EDR). Serving enterprises around the world and developed
in close conjunction with some of the most prestigious names in the data
storage industry, Axxana has risen to the challenge by developing its
first EDR System.
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