Asigra Opens Doors to Interoperability Lab; Begins Distributed Backup/Recovery Certification for Service Providers, Resellers, OEMs.TORONTO -- Asigra, the technology specialists in distributed backup and recovery software for network computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer. , today announced its Asigra Interoperability Assurance Lab, created to validate the company's Televaulting software solution with third-party vendors' hardware and software storage platforms. The lab is based at Asigra's corporate headquarters in Toronto. The majority of the Asigra Interoperability Assurance Lab testing will center on measuring performance and capacity scalability to identify potential bottlenecks. Lab engineers run tests with billions of directories and hundreds of millions of files in a single volume to determine disk subsystem performance and file system limitations. "Interoperability claims are often based on hypothetical assumptions or because a product worked in a similar environment or test, however, we are taking a more reliable and individual approach to demonstrating interoperability," said Eran Farajun, Asigra Executive Vice President. "The Asigra Lab allows us to test and validate our claims and ensures that a joint solution with a third-party vendor will in fact work as promised when installed at a customer's site." A key benefit to interoperability testing is increased sales for storage hardware vendors who can easily market a joint solution to its customers, as well as faster and higher levels of customer service by service providers who can be confident that Asigra's pre-tested solution provides 24/7 data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. . Interoperability assurance is also an important process for both customers of the Asigra Televaulting solution as well as users of third-party storage See online storage. technologies. For those who wish to leverage their current investment in incumbent solutions, interoperability testing will ensure that both products will work smoothly together. Tests are performed for direct-attached disk, NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular and SAN configurations. To date, Asigra has tested various vendors' storage products, including Dell, Sun, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic and NetApp. Other tests include connecting the storage sub-systems to multi-node N+1 Grid configurations of the Asigra software to simulate thousands of simultaneous connections. Asigra Televaulting is agentless multi-site backup/recovery software that combines utility service provisioning with a disk-based, WAN-optimized architecture to shatter the limitations of traditional distributed backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. . Asigra Televaulting provides grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load. Asigra eliminates many storage pain points through technology that is designed for enterprise-wide centralization cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , built from the ground up to perform on a global level. It is tested and certified compatible by leading infrastructure providers, not to take the place of to be substituted for. - Berkeley. See also: Place data center backup software, but complement it for remote sites. Business benefits that differentiate Asigra's offering from other backup solutions include true regulatory compliance, reduction in worldwide IT management expenditures, compounded reduction of hardware/software capital and enterprise-wide license costs, a pay-as-you-grow pricing model and the highest level of assurance that all company data is protected. About Asigra Founded in 1986, Asigra is the specialist in distributed data backup and recovery solutions for network computing. With Asigra's Televaulting software, enterprises can reliably protect mission-critical information across all their geographically dispersed "data islands," whether they reside on servers, desktops or laptops. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is based in Toronto, Canada. For more information, contact Asigra at 416-736-8111, ext. 101 or visit the company's website at www.asigra.com. |
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