Value-Based DR Article by Jim Kandrac of VAULT400

Jim Kandrac, President of VAULT400 recently published  Value-Based DR Lies in the Space Between Tape and HA for Small and Midsize Organizations

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Product News: UCG and Maximum Availability Offer Tailored DR Capabilities

United Computer Group, Inc. (UCG) and Maximum Availability Limited announce an agreement enabling UCG to incorporate Maximum Availability's *noMAX replication software technology as part of UCG's tiered recovery offering to clients who use Vault400, UCG's data vaulting solution. This agreement enables UCG to provide a fully managed "hot backup" high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) solution utilizing the *noMAX suite alongside Vault400. Customers who need to satisfy a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one hour or less can deploy *noMAX realtime replication, whereas those who are content with a 12- or 24-hour RTO can use Vault400's shared or dedicated hardware RTO offerings. In both cases, data is replicated directly to highly secured and fully managed data centers. For more information, visit ucgrp.com.

VAULT400 has teamed up with Maximum Availability on a new Managed-Service HA Solution

Companies can be back running in less than an hour with no hardware investment. VAULT400 has teamed up with Maximum Availability on a new managed-service high availability solution that stores data offsite and allows users to pay by the month. What VAULT400 is calling Managed Service High Availability guarantees to restore full service to a customer in one hour or less of notification that its system has gone down. The customer will roll over to the VAULT400 server running the client's pre-installed applications and *noMAX replicated data, and continue operations via a virtual private network. The service is expected to appeal to 20 percent or more of System i (AS/400) users who need a near-term recovery point objective (RPO) and a short recovery time objective (RTO). While the guaranteed one hour is an outside limit of how long it will take VAULT400 to get the customer's system back online, Maximum Availability notes that its software can execute a role swap in only four minutes. VAULT400 announced earlier that it was planning to offer a managed high availability solution, but it didn't say how it was going to accomplish this or what vendor it would team up with to make it happen. "We find the people at Maximum Availability easy to work with, and they clearly see this type of service as complementary to their high availability offerings," said Jim Kandrac, president of United Computer Group, parent of VAULT400.

Updated Web Site

I just visited the new design of the VAULT400 web site...it looks great! I also noted some new offerings from VAULT400. I was particularly curious about the new Option for Hardware Disaster Recovery. In this day of budget challenges, this a great answer for DR site capabilities on a budget you can afford. Here is a quick recap from the their site.

VAULT40 Receives Another Reader's Choice Nomination

VAULT400 was nominated by Scott Mahoney of Roofing Resources. He said, "We have been using the VAULT400 system since last year. We have been very pleased with. Expecially the support fomr personnel. We have accidently deleted a few files and within minutes we have recoverd them."

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VAULT400 Selected as Reader's Choice Favorite Product for System i

VALUT400 was nominated by Dave Caudle, MIS Manage at Lorraine Home Fashions. " I heard through the grapeine that you were interested in feedback about products and/or services that have really helped out. One such product/service that i've found very useful is VAULT400 from United Computer Group."

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AIX VAULT400 Agent 6.0

United Computer Group, Inc.; Cleveland, Ohio

AT A GLANCE: United Computer Group introduces Vault400 Agent 6.0 to improve performance, security, ease of use and integration.

DETAILS: VAULT400 Agent 6.0 helps improve backup and restore performance with faster seeding, restore and backup of small object workflows. Bandwidth throttling is designed to minimize disruptions to daily business operations during backups. DeltaPro recreation technology provides faster backups by regenerating missing or corrupt delta file indexes. This version offers support for AES-256 encryption and a backup job creation utility for optimal configuration of backup jobs for new customers. Support for LocalRecovery and UltraRecovery helps ensure that backups from operating-system agents integrate seamlessly with replication capabilities of the Director operating-system support.

OS SUPPORT: OS/400* V5R1 and above, Windows*, AIX* 5.2 and 5.3 PRICE: Variable PHONE: (440) 717-7655 E-MAIL: info@vault400.com URL: http://www.vault400.com/