Novell Releases PlateSpin Protect 8.1

Novell has announced the availability of PlateSpin Protect 8.1. With PlateSpin Protect 8.1, customers can protect and restore whole workloads, from both physical servers and virtual machines, shrinking back-up windows and reducing the time needed to restore systems after an outage.

PlateSpin Protect provides a solution for protecting physical and virtual workloads in the data centre and private cloud. Offering a range of protection alternatives in a single product, PlateSpin Protect provides better RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) than tape at a fraction of the cost of traditional clustering or replication solutions. PlateSpin Protect features:

* Consolidated recovery using warm-standby virtual machines as both the back-up media and recovery environment. If a protected physical server goes down, the virtual machine copy of the workload can be running again in minutes using failover functionality not available in traditional back-up tools. When the original physical server is replaced, customers can use PlateSpin Protect to failback from the virtual environment to the new physical server, even if the replacement server is a different model or brand. If the original server can be repaired, PlateSpin’s Server Sync technology makes the failback process even faster by intelligently copying back only the changes that occurred after the failover, instead of the entire workload.

* Incremental back-ups to PlateSpin Flexible Images. Image back-ups are easily transportable for remote or archival purposes and can quickly be restored either to a virtual machine on any supported virtualization platform, or to almost any physical server.

PlateSpin Protect 8.1 features an enhanced block-based transfer technology. In contrast to file-based transfers that copy entire files, block-based transfer technology replicates only changed blocks at the disk level, reducing the amount of data transferred.

Availability

PlateSpin Protect 8.1 is available now.