sun instant image

Your business can't afford to slow down for a minute - and now it doesn't have to. With Sun StorEdgeTM Instant Image software, you increase the availability of your online data by taking snapshots of live data for decision support, contingency planning, and revision control. Sun StorEdge Instant Image software creates a "shadow" image of your data that you can read or write to, just like the original. So your business stays up and running while you perform backups, load data warehouses, or migrate data using a point-in-time snapshot. You can even develop and test applications using actual production data. Plus, Sun StorEdge Instant Image software tracks differences between master and shadow-making data resynchronization fast and easy.

Highlights

Instant Image - Takes instant, point-in-time snapshots of your online data
Instant Access - Enables independent access of snapshots by applications such as backups, data warehouse loading, and application development and test
Instant Update - Quickly resynchronizes the shadow with the master
Instant Restore - Easily restores the master from the shadow

With StorEdge Instant Image software for Sun servers and storage devices, you can keep your business processes online while your people use real-world data to perform a variety of secondary-but-necessary-tasks.

Backups are essential to information protection. But, the backup windows are shrinking while the amount of information needing protection is exploding. Sun StorEdge Instant Image software saves time by enabling enterprise data to be backed up while critial online transactions continue to run.

Application Test and Development Today, many enterprise systems are being reengineered to respond more efficiently to the networked business environment. Instant Image enhances these efforts by enabling business applications to be tested on real, up-to-date data accelerating new application development and enabling faster time-to-market.

Analyzing Up-to-Date Information
Keep a competitive edge by updating your data warehouses more frequently with Instant Image. Analysis will then occur on more current data, leading to faster and better business decisions.

Data Protection
Get back on track quickly by minimizing database or file system recovery time. Use Instant Image to capture frequent snapshots of online data which can then be used for restoration.

Open Storage Management Solution
JiroTM Platform
Sun StorEdge Instant Image software is planned to be one of the first intelligent storage management services to be compatible with the JiroTM Platform, a development and deployment environment for interoperable, automated management services on a network.

Lower Cost of Storage Ownership
Sun's commitment to open industry standards, combined with its strategy to deliver software written to an open network architecture, results in a lower cost of storage ownership for Sun's customers. With Sun StorEdge Instant Image software, customers dramatically lower the cost of storage management software acquisition and maintenance. And, by writing software that can reside on the server, Sun enables customers to centrally manage multiple storage resources from a single server.

Features:

Fast, flexible creation of point-in-time images
High-speed resychronization from master to point-in-time image
High-speed restoration of master from point-in-time image
Master and point-in-time image can span storage subsystems
Master can be protected by any supported RAID level
Point-in-time image can be protected by any supported RAID level and does not need to match master
Resulting image can be used for virtually ANY operation