Veritas: InfoScale

Veritas InfoScale is a software-defined infrastructure solution that integrates directly with applications to provide high availability and disaster recovery for critical business services, including databases, customer applications and multi-tier business services. It offers a common platform for managing high availability and disaster recovery across physical, virtual and all major public cloud platforms, and gives you the flexibility to optimize availability on any platform according to business requirements.

InfoScale is the only solution in the industry that manages application availability based on the underlying platform and the data the application needs to reach, regardless of where that data resides. It provides:

Predictability: meet all Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).

Compliance: stay aligned with business continuity mandates through audit reports and non-disruptive recovery rehearsals.

Automation: recovery playbooks that automate failover and recovery orchestration for multi-tier applications, reducing manual intervention.

Mobility: move workloads between platforms without time-consuming data conversions.

Flexibility: integrate easily with existing on-premises environments and cloud technologies, with broad support for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.

Application-aware availability

Typically, every application accessing data from a storage pool is subject to the same level of storage performance. But not all applications are born equal. Some are more mission-critical than others. InfoScale is application-aware. It allows administrators to match quality of service to the importance of the application, so they can fine-tune the infrastructure to meet important service level agreements (SLAs) while minimizing over-provisioning of resources. Administrators can enable block-level or file-level protection to meet SLAs and application performance characteristics without changing the application architecture and without requiring downtime.

InfoScale helps protect physical and virtualized IT services against unplanned downtime through application monitoring, visibility and insight. This capability rests on a unique feature called the Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF), which uses asynchronous monitoring to detect faults instantly and eliminate the CPU overhead associated with older, poll-based monitoring.

InfoScale reduces time to fault detection and can be configured for high availability across cloud availability zones and regions, minimizing the likelihood of application downtime in the event of a local or regional outage. It manages data movement between availability zones and regions with a zero-data-loss architecture and flexible configuration options that minimize resource usage.

Predictable IT service continuity at any distance

InfoScale delivers predictable recovery times for business services with one-click recovery options locally (high availability), within a metro area (through campus clusters) and globally (through wide-area disaster recovery). InfoScale clusters have built-in intelligence and the ability to fail over every service group associated with a business service. Site-based priority determines the preferred site for failover. It automates replication management and application startup at the remote site without the complex manual recovery procedures that would otherwise require storage and application administrators.

InfoScale also helps an IT organization perfect its business continuity strategy with non-disruptive recovery testing through "Fire Drill". Fire Drill lets an IT organization simulate disaster recovery operations and gauge recovery readiness without disrupting production environments.

Businesses running mission-critical enterprise applications and databases, custom applications and complex, multi-tier IT services can use InfoScale as a reliable application availability and disaster recovery solution. It provides a common availability platform that manages high availability and disaster recovery across physical, virtual, all major operating systems and all major public cloud platforms. By supporting a wide range of platforms, InfoScale gives IT administrators the flexibility to optimize availability on any platform according to business requirements.