Solstice BackupTM 6.1 software provides the latest data protection solution for large enterprise through workgroup installations. Support is now provided for Sun Fibre Channel tape drives and tape libraries and the latest Sun SAN storage. This product provides an excellent data protection solution when sold with Sun data storage and tape library products. Solstice Backup is an integrated product that addresses the backup, recovery, and archival needs of heterogeneous computing environments in large enterprises or departmental workgroups. It supports SolarisTM Operating Environment (OE) servers, as well as LAN-, WAN-, and SAN-attached, multi-vendor UNIXR, Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Novell NetWare platforms. Modules are available for Oracle, Sybase, Informix, SAP, Lotus Notes/Domino Server, IBM DB2, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft SQL server environments. Solstice Backup also supports an impressive variety of tape drives, automated tape libraries, and tape silos, making it a complement for every L9, L20, L180 and L700 Sun StorEdgeTM Tape Library purchase, along with the Sun disk array product line.

Solstice Backup 6.1 is available in three different editions to match the IT requirements of each customer. There are various options to extend coverage, capability, and throughput. Options can be purchased at any time after installation and can be easily added to a site without interrupting ongoing operations. This allows a customer to scale and grow their data protection solution as their storage needs increase.

New Features

• Fibre Channel Tape Drive support

Solstice Backup 6.1 software offers support for the new Fibre Channel tape option for Sun StorEdge L700 and L180 tape libraries. Solstice Backup software offers support of Sun Fibre Channel driver module and tape drives to enable the latest capability in high speed distributed data movement for both backup and restore.

• Dynamic Drive Sharing

Solstice Backup 6.1 software builds on the Solstice Backup 6.0 Software's Library sharing by adding the capability of dynamically allocating a tape drive to a Solstice Backup server and/or Storage Nodes or NDMP-enabled NAS storage devices. Tape drives on centralized libraries can now be allocated to a Solstice Backup Server and/or multiple Storage Nodes as needed for backups and restores. This allows for better utilization of tape drives and improved scalability of tape libraries. Dynamic Drive Sharing leverages the capability of Sun Fibre Channel tape drives and libraries to provide a high level of efficiency in physical resource management.

• SAN Storage Nodes

The SAN Storage Nodes for UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows is introduced onto the Sun Price List with the release of Solstice Backup 6.1. The SAN Storage Node provides a cost-effective method to achieve LAN-free backup utilizing a SAN infrastructure. It delivers the same advanced features and functions as a traditional Storage Node and is used when a node does not need to backup remote Solstice Backup Client hosts. Both the SAN Storage Node and traditional Storage Node fully support SAN technologies for LAN-free backup. The SAN Storage Node is priced to provide a low-cost method to upgrade Solstice Backup Client hosts (LAN backup) to use Storage Node technology for LAN-free backup.

• Continued Expansion of NDMP Support

Solstice Backup 6.1 software extends its support for NDMP-based data backups and restores with the addition of EMC Celerra and Auspex NS2000 onto Sun Solaris OE servers. Additionally, Solstice Backup NDMP is now available on Linux (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Turbo Linux on Intel x86) as well. Direct and third-party backups/restores to directly attached libraries are supported on Linux (Intel x86) for fast, safe data protection for the large numbers of files typically stored on NAS devices.

• Other Features

Also, Solstice Backup 6.1 Software introduces support for Direct Access Restore (DAR). DAR enables faster NDMP data restores by rapidly positioning the tape media to the file to be restored rather than having to scan the entire tape to search for the file.

Library Sharing is now standard Solstice Backup 6.1 Software. Customers no longer are required to purchase an option to use this important functionality.

Cluster Client Licenses for Linux are now offered by Sun. These options enhance data protection by providing capability to backup Linux Clients in cluster configurations. [...read more...]

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