RecoverGuard monitors the existing disaster recovery and replication infrastructure of the organization and reports potential vulnerabilities and or coverage and configuration "gaps" that may prevent the Enterprise from being able to properly recovery from a disaster should one happen to occur.

The RecoverGuard platform supports Windows 2000/2003, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX, with support noted for "all major" DBs and cluster environments. For the storage infrastructure itself, EMC (Symmetrix, DMX, and CLARiiON as well as the SRDF and TimeFinder technologies) and NetApp (ONTAP 6.5/7.x) platforms are supported. Up to 250,000 items per server are supported when running on Windows 200x gear with an Oracle 10g DB.

RecoverGuard uses an agentless architecture to periodically gather information from the DR infrastructure. It leverages communication protocols and technologies including WMI, SSH, Telnet, SMI-S, and direct interaction with device APIs themselves; communicating with storage management software (including EMC Enterprise Control Center, StorageScope, ONTAP, etc.), devices, and server/operating systems. The product can be configured to scan for this infrastructure information automatically and periodically (several times a day) enabling it to note and report on changes soon after they occur.

The product then analyzes the resulting infrastructure map for the existence of coverage or configuration gaps that may indicate a looming failure in the customer's disaster recovery efforts. Key to this effort is the product's Gap Detection engine, which itself leverages a Gap knowledge base built and periodically updated by the vendor themselves. The Gap knowledge base includes information allowing the platform to identify such problems as replication system configuration errors, data inconsistencies, or failure to implement best practices, among others. Both the problems and potential remedies are included in the Gap knowledge base; and when problems are detected the product automatically opens a remediation ticket providing both the problem and its knowledge base information. The platform can additionally identify potential optimization possibilities in the infrastructure; such as unutilized space, unused or unneeded copies of data, or potential configuration changes.

New features in the latest release include support for VMware environments (including the ability to analyze ESX Server, CIM and VMFS configurations and their mapping to physical devices, as well as VMware-specific additions to the Gap knowledgebase); host configuration gap detection (comparing hardware, OS, and network resource specifications, including versions and application path levels, between hosts); integration with BMC Remedy and HP OpenView; and support for Hitachi Data Systems (TrueCopy, HiCommand Application Server, Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS), Workgroup Modular Storage (WMS), Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM) and Oracle Data Guard.

RecoverGuard is available now; the new version is expected to be available on June 30, 2008. Pricing is $2,000 per protected server.

Contact Continuity Software for further information.

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