American Land Lease, a Floridian developer, has selected D-Linkto provide a computer network backup and disaster recovery system. American Land Lease develops resort-style communities for active adults, with more than 7,500 operational home sites in more than 30 communities throughout the United States

The company said, because of recent intense hurricane seasons, there were concerns about backup, disaster recovery and business continuity as companies met Sarbanes-Oxley reporting requirements for regulators, auditors and shareholders.

“Loss of data due to power outages, hurricanes or worse is a major concern," said Steve Ames, Virtualization Performance president, a D-Link value-added reseller (VAR) that was brought in to assess options and recommend solutions. "The real challenge was determining how to find a solution that appropriately suited American Land Lease's needs and met its budget requirements."

D-Link xStack switch and two D-Link xStack Storage DSN-3200 iSCSI SANs will be used by American Land Lease in its data center and another at its disaster recovery site to manage sales, accounting, email and database systems as logically separate virtual machines in the VMware ESX environment.

D-Link’s DSN-3200 will use the company’s existing Ethernet networks avoiding Fibre channel to cut the cost. It is designed to provide a reliable network data storage solution for customers in entry-level and SMB segments. Utilizing a 10Gbit iSCSI System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solution that can handle over 80,000 I/Os per second and capable of supporting 15TB raw capacity using 1TB hard, the DSN-3200-10 Array can easily be implemented as nearline storage to supplement primary IP network storage solution or be used as a basic backup and recovery device.

"The DSN-3200 is the perfect solution for a small to medium-sized company that has some enterprise business continuity needs," said Ames. "The company can get it done at a reasonable price and still meet data availability, back-up and regulatory compliance requirements. It's the first credible platform out there that can do this. Plus, it's rather simple to set up in comparison to some of the other alternatives."

D-Link is a designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice, data and video communications solutions for the digital home, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup to Enterprise environments.