Sonasoft Announces Intelligent Standby Capability for Microsoft SQL Server
SonaSafe® Backup and Recovery software provides an affordable easy to use replication solution for Microsoft SQL Server
San Jose, California - September 27, 2005
Sonasoft Corp. announces the availability of an intelligent standby capability for Microsoft SQL server. Sonasoft is introducing the product at the PASS Community Summit being held in Grapevine (Dallas), Texas. The new offering is a unique replication solution for enabling disaster recovery protection for SQL Servers.
The Sonasoft Standby Solution bridges the gap between a highly expensive Failover Clustering solution and time-consuming native SQL Server Backups. Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. This procedure completely automates log shipping practices and ensures data integrity, enabling the standby system to take over instantly in the event of primary system failure. The standby system can be located on-site or at a remote site for protection against natural and man-made disasters.
Sonasoft provides a high-availability solution, protecting data from hardware/software failures and human errors. Sonasoft's software is designed for disk-to-disk backup, it is application specific, and is a focused solution for Microsoft servers. Sonasoft's SonaSafe application automates the entire backup through configurable templates. When a crash occurs, due to system malfunction, user error, or due to any other reason, one can recover to the point-of-failure, with just point and click. SonaSafe application also maintains a redundant, standby server by continually updating the data with that retrieved from the primary system. The standby system can take over instantly in the event of primary system failure. The standby system can be on-site, or located at a remote site for protection against natural or man-made disasters.
The standby capability supports one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many standby scenarios. In the one to one standby scenario, for each primary server there is a standby server at the remote site. For example, our customer Marketron has 25 servers in the San Francisco and 25 standby servers in Salt Lake City, Utah which is about 700 miles away. The standby updates are happening without any hitch every 15 minutes. The customer would have paid more than $250K for a similar solution. Using Sonasoft, they could deploy it at one fifth of the cost.
In the many to one standby scenario, multiple databases from different primary servers can be replicated to a single standby server at a remote site. By doing this one can reduce both hardware and software costs significantly. Instead of creating standby for all databases on all servers, one can select the key databases from different servers and create standby for them on a single server at the remote site.
One-to-many standby scenario allows one-to-many live replication of a single database, instance or entire SQL Server. For example one may want to create a local standby at the same location as primary server and a standby at a remote location. The local standby can be used for reporting purposes and the remote standby for disaster recovery purposes.
"The automated replication capability solved all our headaches and will for every DBA. The value we get out of the solution is excellent" commented Michael Bruttig, Senior Systems Engineer at Marketron.
Key Benefits to Customers:
- Affordable, easy-to-use solution for Microsoft SQL Server
- Achieve rapid recovery of entire server, instances or databases
- Automates complex log shipping tasks
- When disaster strikes, role switching is one click away
- Support for one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many standby scenarios
- Bridges the gap between expensive Clustered and Mirrored systems and native SQL Server backups
- Allows use of read-only Standby Server for reporting purposes
- Improve productivity through "Point-Click" recovery
- Manage backup and recovery remotely on multiple servers
About Sonasoft®
Sonasoft, Inc. automates the disk-to-disk backup and recovery process for Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Windows Servers with its groundbreaking SonaSafe® Point-Click Recovery® solutions. Designed to simplify, automate, and eliminate human error in the backup and recovery process, SonaSafe solutions also centralize the management of multiple servers and provide a cost-effective turnkey disaster recovery strategy for companies of all sizes.
For more information, please visit www.sonasoft.com.
