PALO ALTO, Calif.: Veritas Software Corp. on Monday announced new and updated
storage software products that enable companies to back up and recover data that
is lost due to disasters, data corruption or other means.
The company's new FlashSnap software enables users to make up to 32
point-in-time copies - or "snapshots" - of data so that if it is lost
due to a disaster or programming error, snapshots can be used to recreate that
valuable information.
Veritas executives said the software can be used with any kind of storage
hardware and that it is an extension of existing snapshot technology, which is
also referred to as "mirroring."
The Mountain View, California-based company also announced Veritas Volume
Replicator 3.2, an update of its product that enables users to immediately post
data to more than one location so that if a data center or key office is
destroyed, the user can quickly recover information with little or no
interruption to its business operations.
"More and more companies are looking at mirroring and replication
because of what happened" at the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept.
11, John Maxwell, Veritas' vice president of product marketing, told Reuters.
It is vital for a company to use those technologies if they want to recover
lost data in minutes rather than days, Maxwell said.
"It's really come to the forefront of people's minds ... There were
sites in the World Trade Center that just vanished," said Bill North, an
analyst with industry research firm IDC. North noted that Morgan Stanley - the
Wall Street investment firm that had been the World Trade Center's largest
tenant - was up and running the following morning because it was using disaster
recovery technology.
"At the very least it will really minimize the possibility for data
corruption or data loss," North said.
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