Database Archiving Software from HP

For the last couple of years, there were solutions on file archiving and retention. Lately there was a focus on data archiving using Deduplication. Now here is a solution from HP for archiving Database.

HP has upgraded its solution (Reference Information Manager for Databases) by adding XML encapsulation to promote long term archiving and retention. This XML feature has few more advantages like quick searching, de-duplication, e-discovery and ease of indexing.

There is a new GUI added in this revision. Designer provides a graphical view of database tables. This helps any end user to write queries by just drag and dropping the tables.

This Archiving software is comprised of Designer, Data movement, Archive Access, Job Engine and Management GUI Console modules. It also supports Oracle and SQL Server database primarily. Versions are as below.

• Oracle 9i Release 2 (9.2.0.6 and above)
• Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.2 and above)
• Oracle 11g
• SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (SP2 and above)

By using the Designer and run time platform, end users can build their own archiving modules. Designer is an easy interface for modeling tables and applying busing rules and company specific policies. To know more about the product please visit here.

VMWare eases Disaster Recovery woes

Yesterday VMWare announced the availability of new disaster recovery solution.

Site Recovery Manager offers non-disruptive testing and automated failover. Site Recovery Manager can manage failover from production datacenters to disaster recovery sites. It can stage failover between two sites with active workloads without any real performance issue.

Site Recovery manager offers to test the recovery plans automatically in an isolated testing environment that is independent of hardware configuration and testing can happen without affecting production systems. It is possible to test the disaster recovery plans automatically thus by avoids painful manual interventions.

Click here to learn more about VMWare Site Recovery Manager.

Site Recovery manager cannot replicate the data by itself but the end user / administrator has to rely on the storage based replication from VMWare partners.

The product will be made available in next 30 days.

HP unveils ExDs9100

HP today anounced a highly scalable storage system named ExDS9100 (Extreme Data Storage System). ExDS9100 can scale in petabytes while the minimum configuration is a cluster of four blades and 246 TB of storage. This product mainly focuses the WEB2.0 applications.

ExDS9100 will be based on HP’s C-Class Blade systems. This allows to scale the storage and power independently. The maximum configuration is ten high-availability storage blocks totaling 820 TB of raw capacity. The performance block be can easily scaled up to a maximum configuration of 16 blades with up to 12.8 cores per unit for an 3.2 GB/second of raw performance.

ExDS9100 can be managed from a single management interface. This system can handle everything from a live cluster configuration to file and storage system provisioning.

This product is expected to hit the market at fourth quarter of 2008.

To know more about ExDS9100, visit the below link.

http://www.hp.com/go/extremestorage

To read the press release, visit the below link.

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/080506xa.html