SharePlex® Enhances Disaster Recovery

Now more than ever, companies need to protect their critical data and files immediately. A loss of data could trigger severe corporate hardships. Time is of the essence.

Fortunately, SharePlex® has been around since 1997, constantly improving on its leading technology. Fast and light on the network, SharePlex can maintain current copies of data and file systems at geographically distant locations. There are many technologies which can accomplish this and some are even “free”. The long-term network costs are where the real spend occurs. SharePlex will save your company money on the network costs.

When SharePlex is providing a disaster recovery capability to your business, the same hardware can be used to reduce downtime around planned maintenance activities. This does not compromise your DR plan, as transactions can still be sent to your remote site.

Often disaster recovery technology is in a waiting mode (i.e., it’s not actually up and running). Ensuring that the DR technology employed will be available when needed requires testing. Testing often takes the DR solution offline. This can be a costly exercise. Without regular testing, the probability of the DR solution working degrades with time. With SharePlex, your DR solution is continuously tested and always available for fail over.

For many companies, the time to recover from a disaster will seriously affect a company’s bottom line. There are various configurations available with SharePlex, including peer-to-peer where there is simultaneous access to both databases. There is no faster method available for fail over to the DR site.

The image of disaster is often interpreted to mean a site based event where the computing infrastructure is physically destroyed. Studies have shown that the vast majority of data loss is not due to these kinds of events. Instead, incidents such as a table drop, block level corruption or even the loss of a data file are some of the leading causes of data loss. SharePlex protects against all these events and more.

Used as an integral component of your overall disaster recovery plan, SharePlex can preserve your critical information from harm.