Accelerated Disaster Recovery, Data Management & WAN Optimisation Solutions

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At Origina, we believe in developing strong relationships with our customers, and bringing to market appropriate solutions that deliver upon our three main focus areas. One area that has always been a hot topic for customers is Accelerated Disaster Recovery. Unfortunately, for most, when designing a solution that meets the required RTP/RTO defined by the business, the costs can increase dramatically into “Rolls Royce” territory.

Highlighted below are some of the newer, more advanced and cost-effective technologies that Origina has brought to market today to deliver true value-add solutions that help you to achieve strategic agility within your business, but without the traditional “Rolls Royce” cost!

Now more than ever, applications and business data must remain online and consistent on a 24x7x365 basis, irrespective of infrastructure component failures or entire site outages. There is simply no tolerance for downtime, performance degradation, or data loss. An hour of downtime for any business can mean massive revenue and productivity loss.

IT departments are now faced with the daunting challenge of ensureing  data protection and consistency for growing data landscapes. This issue is further compounded by the complexity of managing heterogeneous data sources, stored across distributed storage environments, no data loss, and no performance impact. Not to mention, many businesses now have one or more government regulatory bodies breathing down their necks on the compliance front. Needless to say, all these requirements are no IT picnic!

Origina Customer Success Story - HSE Galway University Hospital

A Dynamic SAN solution:

• Reduced ever increasing costs in relation to an organisation's storage infrastructure. These costs are usually made up of; data centre space, power and cooling, acquisition costs and the cost of storage administrators.

• GUH can now take advantage on saving on unnecessary upgrades and using the Compellent Enterprise manager resource management software, which allows an IT department view a 'green report' a powerful tool to assess energy and CO2 costs emissions.

• There is no end of life, and no foreseeable upgrades. No other model range can offer the use of the same SAN.

ICT Excellence - 'Green IT initiative of the year'

Origina won the "Green IT Initiative of the Year" at the ICT Excellence Awards in May 2009. The prestigious award was for the implementation of a cost, power and space saving storage solution at Ireland's Health Service Executive's (HSE) University College Hospital Galway.

• Reducing the amount of phyiscal servers required.
• Substantial reductions in the cost for the third party hosted DR contract
• Physical disk storage footprint reductions by using the automated tiered storage capabilities of the compellent SAN
• 50% reductions in the amount network bandwidth required to deliver services to remote locations, while increasing performance
• Substantial savings in operational expenditure by simplified administration and management.

• Unique architecture manages data inside the volume
• Scalable hardware eliminates the need for a forklift upgrade
• Powerful software optimizes utilization, automates replication and speeds data recovery
• Core system technology provides essential storage features that are traditionally considered add-ons
• Single interface manages entire solution

• Radically reduce storage costs and extend the life of your equipment
• Cut storage management time by 50 percent
• Provide continuous data availability
• Automatically reduce power and cooling costs by more than 90 percent

• Hear about our recent award wins including the Microsoft Storage Solutions Partner of the Year, the InfoWorld “Best SAN” and the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award.
• Read recent product reviews
• Let our customers tell our story
• Get the latest news on our company 
• Find out what ESG analysts say about our ease-of-use and robust features

Compellent & Riverbed - Business Continuity for the Rest of the World

Compellent and Riverbed team up to help you realize an affordable and accelerated replication solution that any administrator can manage. Riverbed extends Compellent's robust disaster recovery solution by slashing the time required to replicate data and optimising bandwidth utilisation.

Does WAN acceleration solutions make your head spin??

Sort it out with this Riverbed technology demo and see Riverbed's comprehensive solution to the entire WAN performance issue! WATCH VIDEO HERE

Right-Size Your Connection

Cut Costs, Not Availability

Lower capacity, bandwidth and management costs while increasing business continuity. Compellent's Thin Replicaton delivers multi-site replication at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Riverbed Steelhead appliances reduce bandwidth utilisation by as much as 98% to cut recurring bandwidth costs.

Increase Performance

Seize performance benefits by pairing Compellent's bandwidth simulation and shaping with Riverbed's bandwidth optimisation and disaster recovery acceleration. Make accurate bandwidth purchases by estimating requirements based on actual data. Customise transfer rates based on link speed, time of day, and replication priority.

Maximise your Bandwidth

Consume less space and free bandwidth resources by using Thin Replication to create volumes based only on written data and Thin Replication to intelligently transfer only the changes blocks of data thereafter. Improve copy time as much as 87% using Riverbed Steelhead appliances.

Maintain your Flexibility

Take control of your data center with technology-agnostic solutions from Riverbed and Compellent that give you the flexibility to grow in many directions. The Compellent SAN supports synchronous or asynchronous replication, Fibre Channel or iSCSI connections, and bi-directional, point-to-point, or even multi-point configurations.

See how data can flow with Riverbed's X- Factor estimator

Affordable, Verifiable IP Replication

Rapid Recovery

Replicate continuous snapshots, called "Replays" between local and remote sites. Unlimited recovery points and block-level management give you the ability to recover within 10 seconds.

Verify Without Missing a Beat

Confirm remote replication with just a few mouse clicks and test without impacting your production environment.

Six-Step Set Up

Establish remote replication using Compellent's intuitive interface that is simple enough for most administrators to use with no training required.

Replication Management at Your Fingertips

Manageme replication with a central view of both local and remote configrations. Easily establish replication schedules on a per-volume basis.

Key Findings

Riverbed Steelhead appliances enable Compellent customers with more than one ofice to improve copy time by as much as 87%, depending on the network link speed.

Riverbed & Compellent - Solution Benefits

Riverbed and Compellent combine to deliver accelerated disaster recovery operations and increased data protection. The joint solution offers customers the following benefits:

• Compellent customers can improve copy time by up to 87% with Riverbed's Steelhead appliances.
• Improve RTO and RPO by accelerating replication and recovery operations.
• Reduce capacity, bandwidth, and management costs while improving business continuity processes.

What Compellent & Riverbed Customers say:

"Using Riverbed with Compellent's Thin Replication has reduced our bandwidth requirements by more than 62% each month"
- PETER FITCH, IT Strategic Planning & Infrastructure Manager, Rudolph Technologies

Appleby Global, an off-shore law firm, relies on the Compellent SAN and Riverbed Steelhead appliances to replicate affordably and reliably between its offices in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, BVI and Jersey. Leveraging Compellent Thin Replication saves Appleby an estimated 50% in costs compared to traditional replication solutions. When combined with Riverbed compression rates of up to 85%, Appleby can now replicate across the world in approximately 15 minutes and manage replication from anywhere using Compellent Enterprise Manager.

Quite a few compellent customers talk about their experiences using the Compellent SAN as the storage core to their server virtualization strategies. Many have been using VMware - like Mike Dufek of Munder Capital Management, Ping Ooi of Ares Management and Roger Bearpark from the London Borough of Hillingdon. Peter Fitch of Rudolph Technologies talks about testing Microsoft Hyper-V. View video here

If you like to learn more about these technologies or how Origina can assist you please contact Jamie on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call him on 01 297 4718

Register here for our upcoming webinar happening on the 21st of October @ 2.30pm here

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