RELDATA replication technology is an integral part of the RELDATA 9240i platform. With the RELDATA 9240i replication, users can achieve superior data management and protection while reducing overhead and administration costs. Combined with its price advantage over proprietary Fibre Channel SAN or NAS products, the RELDATA 9240i offers businesses an attractive solution for meeting the needs of their IT organizations.

Fast and Reliable Data Replication

With RELDATA’s advanced replication services, (data) objects are truly closer than they appear. Through a use of the iSCSI protocol, RELDATA overcomes many of the traditional challenges facing timely data replication. This is done by forwarding incremental changes as disk instructions directly to the remote iSCSI drive, so you can maintain aggressive RPOs (Recovery Point Objective), even for remote locations.

The technology benefits of this approach include incremental, snap-assisted asynchronous updates coupled with the native buffering and error correction provided by the SCSI and TCP/IP protocols. As an added bonus, your replication traffic can traverse your existing Ethernet network, including VPNs.

The diagram shows RELDATA’s multi-site replication, a capability critical to delivering a world-class disaster recovery solution. At any give time, RELDATA is making sure that your data - block or file - is available in multiple locations for failover.

RELDATA’s snapshot technology deployed at the remote site(s) is an important component in keeping your RTO (Recovery Time Objective) as low as possible. Specifically, RELDATA can create writeable snapshots that are immediately usable without transformation or restoration; this means that you can rollback to any point in time at any location and start using your replicated data immediately. This is also true for volumes defined as part of a consistency group for which RELDATA will automatically present a synchronized multi-volume set - critical to restoring operations for complex multi resource applications.

Finally, when you see a RELDATA solution in-band, it means that both the block and file data for ALL of the physical systems and virtual machines behind it can be fully protected - without any licensed drivers or agents on the connected hosts.