Business critical environments require continuous 24x7x365 availability to their data. BNMC offers professional design and implementation of high availability and real-time data replication technologies and tools. BNMC's high availability solution offer these benefits:
- Dedicated Project and Engineering team
- Savings of time and money over a self-implementation
- Fixed price quote for a fixed scope of work
- 45-days of post project support
- Customized technical documentation of software, hardware and systems management procedures.
High Availability Data Replication
Data replication technology guarantees immediate availability of data in the event of an entire server, NAS, or SAN failure. BNMC's solution replicates data byte by byte as it is written and modified on the primary system. BNMC implements best of breed solutions focusing on the two primary mechanisms of replication.
Synchronous Replication
Occurs real-time and ensures that changed data can be protected nearly immediately and that an up to date replica can be made available in an instant if necessary. In most configurations, the data is actually written on the geographically remote system before it is written on the primary system; thus insuring data integrity on the remote system.
Asynchronous Replication
This form of replication works like a scheduled file copy. Less sensitive to lower bandwidth connections, this system provides a reliable alternative to real-time replication solutions. BNMC offers DataCore's SANMelody to convert your existing Windows Server into a disk server which can use the SANmelody Asynchronous IP Mirror to replicate the data over a conventional IP LAN or WAN to a similar Windows Server.
Failover or Business Recovery
After implementing and configuring the replication solution, we work with our clients to deploy a failover mechanism for the protected critical system. Workstations and client machines are able to automatically locate the alternate resources, even if they are located cross-country or on the other side of the world. BNMC can also implement advance client systems such as Citrix Metaframe XP to fully protect server and workstation side systems against a catastrophic failure, often without the users even knowing that there was a problem.
Data Volume Management/Storage Virtualization
For real-time management of data volumes, BNMC can implement solutions such as VMWare VMotion, Symantec Storage Foundation and Volume Replicator. These best of breed solutions are for organizations that require uninterrupted and consistent access to mission-critical data. Storage Foundation and Volume Replicator is an easy-to-use, online storage management tool for heterogeneous enterprise environments, which reduces planned and unplanned downtime. The Symantec solutions ensures high availability of data and optimized I/O performance and offers freedom of choice in storage hardware investments.
Clustering
Clustering technologies implements two (or more) servers together so one can take over for the other in the event of a hardware or software failure. BNMC offers top hardware and software cluster solutions from industry leaders like Microsoft, HP and Symantec Cluster Server.