September 28, 2005
ASEMPRA TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES BUSINESS CONTINUITY SERVER
Company launches IT industry's most robust recovery management solution. BCS
offers real-time data protection and instant application recovery.
Sunnyvale, Calif. and New York, New York (Storage Decisions) September 28, 2005
- Asempra Technologies, a pioneer in enterprise-level business continuance and real-time
recovery management solutions, today announced the Asempra Business Continuity Server™
(BCS). The Asempra BCS is the first and only recovery management solution that provides the
combination of real-time data protection and instant application recovery. Asempra's Business
Continuity Server enables companies to: eliminate the risk of data loss and inconsistent data
recovery; dramatically reduce the complexity of the backup and recovery process; and lower
costs associated with data protection and disaster recovery infrastructure.
Backing up and restoring corporate data has increasingly become a slow, difficult, and often
unreliable process. A recent report from META Group determined that the average cost of
downtime is $1 million per hour. Using traditional back-up and recovery tools, companies are
typically successful in recovering only 50-to-80 percent of corporate data and often cannot verify
the integrity of the data. In addition, the time required to recover the data, via tape, is generally
measured in days.
The complexity and reliability surrounding backup, recovery, and disaster recovery is
compounded by the vast amount of data that businesses must protect. Everything from emails
to satellite images needs to be saved on disks or tape. Analysts at International Data
Corporation estimate that in 2005, 35 billion emails will be sent throughout the world each day.
IDC estimates that emails alone account for up to 40 percent of the cost of storing data.
"Today's approaches to protecting and restoring data are based on architectures that
no longer efficiently keep up with IT business demands and relentless data growth" said
Dan Fraisl, CEO and co-founder of Asempra. "Our Business Continuity Server is designed
to protect transactions in real-time and integrate intelligent recovery management into an
enterprise-class solution. Asempra helps IT to reduce risk and dramatically lower the costs
of delivering advanced data protection and disaster recovery to their users. CIOs who are
charged with protecting corporate assets and complying with regulations can now
cost-effectively simplify their IT business continuity infrastructure."
The Asempra BCS works with existing storage arrays to provide transaction-aware, continuous
data protection for structured and unstructured data types. Asempra supports Microsoft
Exchange, Windows file servers, and SQL database applications, such as Microsoft Sharepoint
Portal Server and custom applications for real-time industries like healthcare, transportation,
and financial services. Data protection and recovery is supported over existing Internet Protocol
(IP) LAN or WAN networks, providing a remote disaster recovery solution. Integration with
existing tape libraries is provided through a standard interface for tape archival products
including Veritas NetBackup, Legato NetWorker, and Tivoli Storage Manager to fully utilize
existing software to store data to tape.
"The complexity and cost associated with backup, disaster recovery and business continuance
places a heavy burden on corporations," said Steve Duplessie, senior analyst and co-founder
of Enterprise Strategies Group. "The Asempra Business Continuity Server simplifies the process
by providing real-time backup, with instant recovery and guaranteed data integrity. The BCS
eliminates the possibility of data loss inherent with point-in-time backup strategies, and
dramatically reduces recovery time of your mission-critical data. The BCS not only makes
recovery operations work - it does it at a price point that everyone can afford. That's the most
compelling part of the equation."
For more information about the Asempra Business Continuity Server, please visit
www.asempra.com.
About Asempra Technologies, Inc.
Asempra Technologies is a leading provider of recovery management solution that can recover any Windows-based
application data in minutes, from any location, at any point-in-time. The Asempra Business Continuity Server™
leverages existing IT infrastructures and reduces the management complexity and tools required for today‘s
data protection, and disaster recovery needs. Asempra is headquartered at 640 West California Avenue, Suite 110,
Sunnyvale, California 94086. For more information, please call 408.215.5800 or visit www.asempra.com
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