YottaYotta Wins Contract with U.S. DoD; GSX 3000 to Provide Fully-Active COOP Capability.EDMONTON, Alberta -- YottaYotta, the High Performance Netstorage(R) Company, announced today that a strategic analysis center of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Department of Defense has installed, trialed, and purchased the company's new GSX GSX Gelled Slurry Explosive GSX Ground Storm X (VMware) GSX Gran Sport Extra (Buick Skylark) GSX Gasco Energy Company GSX Gender Sexuality XYZ 3000 NetStorage Control Node. The GSX 3000 offers a suite of Global Block Services that set a new standard for high-performance, resilient global data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. , and fully-active business continuity, also known as continuity of operations The degree or state of being continuous in the conduct of functions, tasks, or duties necessary to accomplish a military action or mission in carrying out the national military strategy. (COOP). The GSX 3000 opens up new approaches to managing and implementing critical storage applications including transparent multi-site data sharing, site-aware geographic RAID, and high-speed data transport across multiple distributed centers. The result is increased utilization of IT resources, local SAN performance over the WAN, and fully-active business continuity or COOP. "The Department of Defense represents a large enterprise customer with significant mission critical infrastructure and COOP requirements that exceed the feature set of traditional storage networking solutions," said Jack Kurtz, vice president of sales and business development for YottaYotta. "With the introduction of the GSX 3000, DoD and federal IT managers can now more easily and flexibly ensure vital information and critical storage network assets are protected and continuously available while at the same time greatly accelerating access to data on a daily basis." FULLY-ACTIVE COOP CAPABILITY The requirement to provide its customers with uninterrupted operations of essential mission critical needs motivated the DoD center to re-examine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines 1. To examine again or anew; review. 2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination. its continuity of operations plan The Continuity of Operations Plan refers to the preparations and institutions maintained by the United States government, providing survival of government operations in the case of catastrophic events. (COOP). The center conducted technology assessment studies to develop COOP plans in response to Presidential Directive Noun 1. Presidential Directive - a directive issued by the President of the United States; usually addressed to all heads of departments and agencies directive - a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the boss loves to send us directives" 67 and Federal Preparedness Circular 65. Like most government agencies, it concluded at the time that no vendor offered a true "active-active" COOP capability in a mixed-vendor storage and server architecture environment. From these technology assessments, the DoD center concluded that its COOP needs at that time were best satisfied by traditional tape based methodologies that restored essential functions based upon a complex prioritized list of restoration timelines. A better solution was clearly needed. COOP IN A WEEK - TRIAL TO OPERATIONAL To validate YottaYotta's claim of addressing this critical operational COOP need for continuous, high-performance protection with seamless integration into a mixed-vendor SAN distributed file system Software that keeps track of files stored across multiple networks. When the data are requested, it converts the file names into the physical location of the file so it can be found. environment, the center procured YottaYotta's GSX 3000 NetStorage Control Node and established a trial environment that simulated its production storage environment. Together with YottaYotta technical personnel, the center encapsulated existing file systems and demonstrated active-active COOP operations in one day. These integration efforts included mirroring multiple heterogeneous "production site" file systems to the COOP site. Following this initial success, the center successfully demonstrated uninterrupted continuity of operations via simulated catastrophic failures of both production site storage and servers. The entire integration timeline from start (establishment of simulated environment) to finish (site fail-over testing) was five days. The ability to demonstrate transparent and truly "active-active" operations sets new standards for performance, ease of deployment, and flexibility in COOP architectures. "By eliminating 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 dependencies, YottaYotta enables DoD engineers to design COOP environments that leverage the latest technology advancements in both disk and tape technologies," said George Bell, founder of SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. , the systems integrator responsible for the implementation at the DoD center. "Many vendors promise active-active continuity of operations, YottaYotta actually delivers on that promise with transparent storage system fail-over that can deliver a zero recovery time objective (RTO (Recovery Time Objective) The amount of time a computer system or application can stop functioning before it is considered intolerable to the enterprise. It can be computed to be from seconds to days, depending on how critical the application is to the organization. ) and recovery point objective (RPO RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO Recovery Point Objective (disaster recovery) RPO Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra RPO Representative Poetry Online RPO Railway Post Office ). Within one week, YottaYotta, and more importantly, DoD personnel, were able to install and demonstrate a functional active-active COOP capability independent of storage and server architectures." (Editors and reporters: Please see YottaYotta's earlier release today regarding the introduction of the GSX 3000.) About YottaYotta YottaYotta is setting the new enterprise standard for resilient, high-performance global data sharing and fully-active continuity of operations (COOP). The GSX 3000 NetStorage Control Node and YottaYotta's suite of Global Block services localize lo·cal·ize v. lo·cal·ized, lo·cal·iz·ing, lo·cal·iz·es v.tr. 1. To make local: decentralize and localize political authority. 2. access to globally coherent data, enabling organizations to leverage their entire storage infrastructure across multiple distributed sites while providing a significant reduction in WAN traffic. The result is increased utilization of IT resources, SAN performance over the WAN, and continuity of operations despite site failures and network disruptions. Founded in January 2000, YottaYotta is privately funded with offices in Edmonton, AB and Alexandria, VA. For more information go to www.YottaYotta.com. YottaYotta, NetStorage, NetStorager, UNITY Pilot, and YYESS are registered trademarks of YottaYotta, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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