Riverbed’s Granite goes snapshooting

The latest, 2.6 Version of Riverbed Technology’s Granite branch converged infrastructure solution has added enhanced snapshot control of running production systems within branches so that recovery of not only the state of data but the operations of the production system can be achieved a good deal more quickly than before by simply restarting from the last snapshot.

Granite centralises branch data in the datacentre while delivering local performance to branch users.  Using it, businesses can restore operations in a matter of minutes vs. days, centrally protect and secure data, and significantly lower the TCO of branch and remote offices. 

The new snapshot integration capabilities in Version 2.6 provide application-consistent data protection with a greater number of datacentre storage arrays. A snapshot records the state of a storage device at a particular point in time, accelerating recovery for branch servers and data, while minimising the impact of outagesor data failures.

It provides snapshot support for  IBM Storwize V7000 arrays, and enables configuration and coordination of branch data snapshots in the datacentre. IBM customers now get seamless end-to-end data protection for applications running in branch offices and can use existing datacentre backup solutions like IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and Symantec NetBackup. It also provides a snapshot handoff framework, which introduces a script-execution interface used to orchestrate snapshot operations for storage arrays.

The new Virtual Granite Core 1500 (VGC-1500) series delivers greater capacity for Virtual Granite Core deployments, scaling to support more branches and larger datasets. The VGC-1500 series, enabled with Granite 2.6 software, includes two new model licences. The VGC-1500-L version support up to 30 branches and up to 20TBytes of data, while the  VGC-1500-M supports 30 branches and up to 35TBytes of data.

 “Organisations have an average of 55 branches for every data centre and therefore managing business data across the globe is next to impossible. Organisations need better ways to protect data in remote places, faster ways to recover branches after disasters, and lower-cost ways to manage these critical operations,” said John Martin, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Delivery at Riverbed.

“Granite is a powerful solution to this universal problem, centralising data for higher security, instant disaster recovery, and dramatically lower TCO. With our new Granite 2.6 release, we now support more branches with double the capacity and bigger data sets, resulting in even lower costs and higher security.”