Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 30 | Page 67

t cht lk TECH TALK /////////////////////////////////////////////////// ARCSERVE ENABLES SYSTEM WITH CONTINUOUS DATA PROTECTION Arcserve has announced the newest version of Arcserve Replication and High Availability (RHA), which delivers high availability combined with heartbeat-powered automatic failover, and continuous data protection for Windows and Linux applications. W ith the latest release, Arcserve RHA adds full system high availability for Linux, extends its full system support of Windows and Linux workloads to Azure, and provides a number of enhancements including performance and usability improvements and new platform certifications. According to Arcserve’s independent global study of 759 IT decision makers, 93% of respondents reported they could tolerate minimal, if any, data loss from critical business applications, with nearly 50% stating they have less than an hour to recover before it impacts revenue. To meet the demands of today’s always-on economy and Digital Transformation, companies are changing how they approach business www.intelligentcio.com continuity, moving beyond data backups and application recovery times to solutions that ensure continuous availability of critical business systems and applications. “Across many industries, large enterprises struggle to manage disparate replication tools that only work with specific applications or systems,” said Andrew Smith, Research Manager on IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure Practice. “This process can be extremely manual and inefficient. Arcserve has designed RHA to address this challenge, integrating with multiple applications, operating systems and platforms. This has the potential to ease the burden and costs of managing siloed tools and can also reduce the risk of downtime for “ THERE ARE VENDORS IN THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY SPACE THAT CLAIM TO OFFER HIGH AVAILABILITY, BUT THE TECHNOLOGY JUST ISN’T THERE. INTELLIGENTCIO 67