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PlateSpin Forge Virtualized Recovery Hardware Appliance
Where PlateSpin Fits in the Recovery Landscape
Traditional recovery infrastructures have failed to keep pace with business requirements. Until now, organizations have had to choose between costly and complex clustering and high-end replication solutions or suboptimal lower-cost alternatives like tape backups that can be slow and cumbersome to test and restore. PlateSpin Forge is the first recovery hardware appliance that leverages virtualization technology to provide a flexible and affordable solution for protecting production workloads.
Multiple physical and virtual server workloads can be consolidated onto a single PlateSpin Forge recovery appliance, allowing data centers to protect a greater percentage of their workloads while avoiding costly duplicate hardware and software investments. With PlateSpin Forge, organizations can achieve recovery time and point objectives that approach the level of protection provided by clustering for a cost that is closer to imaging and tape backup solutions. With PlateSpin Forge, it is also faster and easier to test the integrity of recovery plans.
The unique combination of simplicity, ease-of-testing and cost-effectiveness makes PlateSpin Forge ideal for augmenting and extending existing disaster recovery capabilities.
Where PlateSpin Forge Fits
| Solution |
Cost |
RPO* |
RTO* |
TTO* |
Notes |
| Tape/Manual Rebuild |
$ |
24 Hr+ |
Days |
Days
(Impractical) |
Difficult to administer and test
Slow, prone to errors |
| Image Capture |
$$$ |
24 Hr |
Hours |
- Hours
(Requires additonal hardware)
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- Limited restore flexibility
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| PlateSpin Forge |
$$$$ |
Hours |
Minutes |
Minutes
(No impact on production data, zero-risk) |
Rapid recovery/flexible restore
Easy setup and testing
25 to 1 protection ratio
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| High-end Replication |
$$$$$ |
Minutes |
Minutes |
- Minutes
(Impacts production data, adds risk)
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Complicated configuration
Duplicate hardware |
| Server clustering |
$$$$$$ |
0 |
0 |
- Near zero
(Impacts production data, adds risk)
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Duplicate hardware
Complicated
setup
Difficult to test
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* Recovery Point Objective – the time between the latest backup and the system disaster, representing the nearest historical point in time to which a system can be recovered.
* Recovery Time Objective – the length of time between a system disaster and when the system is again operational.
* Test time objective (TTO) – measures the time and effort required to test a disaster recovery plan to ensure its effectiveness. TTO, or the ease with which recovery plans can be tested, is emerging as a key disaster recovery metric.
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