Mendocino Builds on Application Recovery Base with InfiniView.Architecture Scales to Support Simultaneous Creation and Use of Multiple Views in Heterogeneous Environments Using hardware and system software from different vendors. Organizations often use computers, operating systems and databases from a variety of vendors. Contrast with homogeneous environment. FREMONT, Calif. -- Mendocino Software today announced the release of InfiniView(TM), a new product architecture, based on its core continuous data protection (CDP CDP (cytidine diphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Certificate in Data Processing) An earlier award for the successful completion of an examination in hardware, software, systems analysis, programming, management and accounting, ) technology, that enables end-users to create and use multiple "virtual views" of production data for a variety of functions, including rapid application recovery, testing and development, data analytics, reporting, disk staging Disk staging is using disks as an additional, temporary stage of backup process before finally storing backup to tape. Backups stay on disk typically for a day or a week, before being copied to tape in a background process and deleted afterwards. , or any off-host processing task that has been done previously using conventional backup or snapshot technologies. "InfiniView is a natural evolution of our companyeIUs continuous data protection technology," said Steve Colman Steve Colman is a poet, writer, performer, and director. He co-wrote and co-starred in Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Def Poetry won a Tony Award in 2003 in the Best Special Theatrical Event category. , MendocinoeIUs president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "InfiniVieweIUs scalable architecture and modular application-specific filters allow users to quickly and easily manipulate and leverage MendocinoeIUs virtual view functionality to optimize many administrative tasks for which conventional copy technologies performed poorly." The power of InfiniView lies with its efficiency and flexibility. Unlike conventional snapshot or point-in-time technologies, InfiniVieweIUs virtual views do not require additional storage space; are not tied to particular file systems, volume managers, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , storage arrays, or applications; and can be instantly and simultaneously created and accessed by multiple servers or applications. InfiniView builds on the companyeIUs prior success with its RecoveryONE solutioneI|including its ability to continuously and transparently capture all changes to enterprise application environments and instantly make available copies of production data from any previous point in time. InfiniView is the industryeIUs first comprehensive secondary data management solution, providing both continuous data protection and optimized application management. "While most CDP vendors are still focusing just on 'recovery,' Mendocino has found an additional use for its technology eI one that should increase its value proposition in enterprise environments," said Arun Taneja, senior analyst and founder of The Taneja Group. "With InfiniView, Mendocino is introducing a new product architecture that has been specifically designed to accommodate the separate scaling of data capture and data view presentation. Such an approach can enable many applications that the industry is just beginning to fathom fath·om n. Abbr. fth. or fm. A unit of length equal to 6 feet (1.83 meters), used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths. tr.v. ." In addition to rapid, reliable application recovery, uses for InfiniVieweIUs virtual views include: * Test Environments eI Current virtual views of production data, including application binaries and data, are used to perform patch validation prior to release into production. * Development Environments eI Development teams can develop and test their own code in progress against actual views of current production data. * Data Analytics and Reporting eI InfiniVieweIUs zero impact view creation enables an increased frequency of data warehouse refreshes, improving the quality of query results, while multiple views of the same or different points can be used to optimize the productivity of reporting operations. * Audit Operations and Compliance eI Multiple views of the same time period, such as month-end financial data taken at a certain time, can be created, recreated and retained for audit or compliance reporting activities, where needed. * Data Staging eI Off-host backup activities are able to run in the background without disrupting production applications and can be managed automatically via InfiniView policies, which first create the latest view of production data and then initiate third-party software to run specific backup jobs or routines against that view. "HP's broad set of ILM offerings, including HP StorageWorks HP StorageWorks is an HP Portfolio of storage products, including online storage, nearline storage, storage networking , archiving, and storage software. The product line up includes: Disk arrays prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. its business value," said Frank Harbist, vice president and general manager, Information Lifecycle Management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. and Storage Software, StorageWorks Division, HP. "Working with partners like Mendocino is a key part of our overall ILM strategy." Unlike other continuous data capture or CDP-based solutions, InfiniVieweIUs architecture is designed to scale to meet data capture and view presentation loads independently. InfiniVieweIUs dual-engine architecture can potentially place the front-end data capture function and the back-end view presentation function onto two different engines. Users have the option to either maintain both engines on a single appliance or to seamlessly scale up, as needed as needed prn. See prn order. , on either the number of front-end or back-end appliances necessary to meet more frequent needs for either data capture or data viewing and presentation. Major InfiniView features and benefits include: * Simultaneous view usage across multiple, heterogeneous servers. Multiple views of the same data point in time, or multiple views of different data points, can be used concurrently to access recent copies of production data on servers running across heterogeneous operating systems, while there is no limit to the number of views that can be created and stored. * Scalable, continuous and transparent data capture across multiple heterogeneous servers. InfiniVieweIUs out-of-band architecture offers a high data capture rate, zero data loss and no impact on production applications. * Dual-mode view usage for application data recovery. InfiniView supports application-level data recovery in one of two ways: 1) running the production application directly from a selected disk-based view of the production data or 2) using the Production Volume Restore (PVR See DVR. ) option to alter initial production storage data, block-for-block, to reflect a selected image. * Block-based data capture for comprehensive application coverage. Unlike file-level, or file system-level data capture solutions, InfiniView captures rapid data views from any application at the block-level. Application-specific filters, available as optional modules, can enable the viewing and recovery of application objects (e.g., mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). and message level recovery in MS Exchange environments, etc.). Pricing and Availability InfiniView solutions are available from Mendocino immediately, with entry-level pricing starting around $50,000. InfiniView-based solutions will also be available to customers via MendocinoeIUs OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and distribution partners in 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) and Sun channels. About Mendocino Software Mendocino Software develops and markets optimized application recovery, administration and maintenance solutions. The basic capabilities of our technology include transparent, continuous data capture and an ability to present one or more "virtual views" as readable, writable, recoverable disk-based snapshots of any selected previous points in time. Views can be used to optimize recovery or to decouple a variety of secondary data management tasks in the areas of test, development, data analytics, reporting, audit and compliance, data migration, data staging or others from production environments. Value propositions to the enterprise for InfiniView solutions include rapid, reliable application recovery and optimized administration and maintenance for mission-critical applications. 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 funded by Mayfield, Accel Partners, Advent International Advent International - a long-established and leading global private equity investor Background Advent was founded in 1984 by Peter Brooke and Clint Harris to focus on international private equity investing. , Foundation Capital and a strategic corporate investor Noun 1. corporate investor - a company that invests in (acquires control of) other companies company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" . Mendocino is headquartered in Fremont, Calif. For more information on the company, please visit www.mendocinosoft.com. |
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