FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) Solution

The FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solution provides rapid recovery from system and data center failures caused by natural disasters, hardware failures, and user-induced events such as deletion, corruption, or viruses. Continuous real-time data journaling and periodic snapshots provide service level-oriented recovery times of five minutes for email files and databases, ten minutes for systems, and 30 minutes for entire sites via remote disaster recovery (DR). Data protection and instant recovery help drive top-line growth, improve customer service and satisfaction, and increase business productivity.

FalconStor CDP features per-write data journaling for local and remote recovery. Continuous protection mode allows organizations to recover data to the last point before a service disruption occurred. FalconStor CDP also integrates periodic mode protection via FalconStor TimeMark® technology, which provides point-in-time snapshots with transactional integrity for rapid recovery, data set duplication, backup window elimination, DR validation, and long-term retention. Snapshots are created on a pre-set schedule, such as every hour or every few hours, delivering far more recovery points than daily tape backup. FalconStor CDP also provides WANoptimized replication for remote data protection and recovery. Its resiliency features allow it to switch between continuous and periodic remote replication modes based upon the availability and capability of the WAN connecting to the DR site.

Traditional tape backups and data archiving focus on data retention rather than protection of the whole system. If a system disk is damaged or corrupted, administrators are faced with the time-consuming task of re-installing the operating system and application, and then reapplying configuration information to fully recover the entire system. This can take many hours, which is an unacceptable level of downtime for most organizations.