IPStor Advanced Open Technology
- Any-to-any connectivity (Fibre Channel, IP, iSCSI, SCSI, CIFS, NFS, etc.)
- Puts intelligence (enterprise class storage services) into the storage network
- Centralized management of entire storage network and storage services from a single easy-to-use, go-anywhere Java console
- High availability of data with no single point of failure
- Dynamic expansion of storage volumes
- Lightning-fast zero-impact backup and immediate recovery
- End-to-end security
Highlights of IPStor Advanced Open Technology
- IPStor enables the existence of a seamless, two-dialect storage farm (SAN and NAS)
- Any-to-any connectivity (Fibre Channel, IP, iSCSI, SCSI, CIFS, NFS, etc.)
- Puts intelligence (enterprise class storage services) into the storage network
- Centralized management of entire storage network and storage services from a single easy-to-use, go-anywhere Java console
- High availability of data with no single point of failure
- Dynamic expansion of storage volumes
- Lightning-fast zero-impact backup and immediate recovery
- End-to-end security
IPStor provides an open software infrastructure platform for storage networking, allowing for the consolidation of heterogeneous storage environments along with the seamless creation and provisioning of both SAN (block level) and NAS resources (for general-purpose file sharing) from the same storage pool, both of which are essential for efficient and cost-effective IT operations. This innovative architecture simplifies administrative tasks because IPStor advanced storage services all work identically for both SAN and NAS resources, eliminating the need to manage yet another box.
On this open platform, IPStor delivers the widest array of enterprise class storage services – the "killer-apps" of the 21st century – to new or existing SANs. IPStor network-based management paradigm off-loads and consolidates traditional, individual server-based storage management tasks such as backup, restore, volume management, mirroring, snapshot, and replication from the application servers, resulting in further reduction of administrative overhead. Everything, including diagnostics and reporting, is managed from a single easy-to-use Java console that can be located anywhere.
IPStor enterprise-class storage services include Active-Active Failover, Synchronous Mirroring, Remote Replication, Zero-Impact Backup Enabler, DynaPath® for dynamic multi-pathing, and TimeMark for scheduled disk-based change-journaling and instant data recovery. With IPStor zero-downtime migration capability, applications can immediately take advantage of IPStor network storage services to help protect data against hardware failures, software failures, and virus attacks.
A high performance in-band solution, IPStor lies in the middle of the data path, or stream, serving as a gateway to storage and providing true any-to-any connectivity.