Heterogeneous Replication with RELsnapTM leverages customers’ existing storage infrastructure

RELDATA, the leading provider of consolidated storage solutions that deliver Unified iSCSI SAN, NAS and WAN replication from a single virtualized storage platform, today announced a cost effective disaster recovery solution.

“Enterprises can now easily replicate critical data from any standard storage array in their primary datacenter to a cost effective RELDATA Unified iSCSI SAN at their remote disaster recovery site,” stated David Hubbard, CEO, RELDATA. “RELDATA’s approach to simplified WAN data replication allows customers to fully leverage their existing storage infrastructure investments at their primary datacenter, deploy cost effective storage at their disaster recovery site, and easily manage the process with RELDATA’s Adaptive Storage Wizards, RELbot task automation and an integrated management console.”

With RELDATA, enterprises can replicate data over hundreds of miles, with no application slowdown, and be confident that the disaster recovery site will be outside the impacted area.

“Disaster Recovery still represents a critical business need for small and medium enterprises, even in this tough economy,” says David Hill, principal, Mesabi Group. “In contrast to other solutions that may be just too cost prohibitive, RELDATA’s approach delivers a flexible and cost effective approach for disaster recovery.”

RELDATA’s patent-pending RELsnap snapshot approach enables ongoing application availability of the primary data volume, while providing incremental updates of the data to the remote site.

“RELDATA’s 9240 with its open backend connectivity allows my customers to fully leverage their existing storage assets; they do not need to do a forklift upgrade to solve their data protection requirements,” says Fernando Sabio of Concentus, a value added integrator. “In addition, RELDATA’s RELsnap tools allow our customers the ability to cost effectively expand their SAN storage infrastructure at the primary sites, and replicate to heterogeneous storage at their remote sites - further increasing ROI. Dell EqualLogic and HP/LeftHand just cannot integrate into a customer’s existing storage infrastructure with this level of flexibility and cost effectiveness.”

MSRP pricing for a disaster recovery solution that replicates heterogeneous storage at a primary site to a storage pool at a secondary disaster recovery site starts at $65,000 including 12TB of new storage. Heterogeneous replication to a remote RELDATA iSCSI SAN with 48TB of new storage is under $110,000. Optional licenses are available for non-disruptive data migration, connectivity to Fibre Channel SAN environments and integrated NAS.