Bypass Failures (HA)
Recover Remotely (DR)
Point-in-Time Restore
Circumvent Outages
Minimize Data Loss
Avoid Downtimes
Organizations face constant threats to data availability: hardware failures, system outages, cyberattacks, human error, and unexpected environmental events. Any disruption can lead to downtime, data loss, and operational impact if data is not continuously accessible and recoverable.
To maintain business operations without interruption, you need a resilient business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) strategy that works reliably across diverse infrastructure. DataCore enables you to strengthen availability, minimize data loss, and recover rapidly by applying proven BC/DR principles consistently across your storage environment.
- How do you keep data accessible when components fail?
- How do you prevent outages from disrupting operations?
- How do you protect against data loss or corruption?
- How do you recover if your primary systems go down?
- How do you restore data to a known good state?
- How do you refresh storage hardware without downtime?
Three Lines of Defense to Avoid Downtime and Data Loss
DataCore applies three proven principles to help organizations prevent downtime and maintain continuous access to critical data. These lines of defense work together to address a wide range of disruption scenarios from minor component failures to full-scale outages and unwanted data changes. By combining local redundancy and failover, remote recovery, and point-in-time restore, you can strengthen resiliency across your storage environment without redesigning existing infrastructure.
This layered model forms a flexible BC/DR framework that adapts to different operational requirements. You can implement any one of the lines of defense individually, expand to additional layers as needs evolve, or leverage all three together for maximum protection and continuity. The result is simplified planning, streamlined recovery processes, and the right level of resilience without unnecessary complexity.
Bypass Failures (HA)
Addresses smaller problems such as when one system or some of its components fail. Replicating data within a site or metro cluster in real time along with automatic fail over to the second copy ensures continuous data access without data loss.
Recover Remotely (DR)
Addresses larger outages (e.g., flood, fire, or power outages) that impact an entire region. Creating replicas in a remote/DR site can help quickly restore access and minimize the loss of in-flight data from that remote location.
Fall Back to Last Known Good State
Enables recovery from unwanted changes, such as accidental data deletion, logic errors (bugs) or external attacks. Point-in-time backups and snapshots ensure that when such unforeseen events occur, data can be restored from a trusted copy.
Key Benefits
- Continuous business operations despite equipment or system failures
- Fast recovery from major outages and disruptive events
- Minimal data loss through layered protection and recovery options
- Works seamlessly with existing storage and infrastructure
- Consistent data protection across diverse platforms and environments
- Non-disruptive technology refreshes, migrations, and expansion
- Simplified BC/DR planning and operational efficiency
Two DataCore Platforms for Comprehensive BC/DR Coverage
SANsymphony for Data Center Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
SANsymphony is a software-defined storage platform that provides the resilience foundation for data center environments. It virtualizes and centralizes storage resources across diverse systems so that protection, availability, and recovery can be managed consistently, regardless of underlying block storage hardware (SAN, HCI, DAS, JBOD, etc.).
By orchestrating how data is mirrored, replicated, and preserved across fault domains and sites, SANsymphony shields applications from the effects of hardware failures, outages, and unwanted data changes. It gives organizations a unified way to enforce BC/DR policies, maintain dependable access to critical information, and streamline the operational effort required to keep storage continuously protected as infrastructure evolves.
- Real-time synchronous mirroring across independent fault domains
- Supports both 2-way and 3-way mirroring for higher redundancy
- Automated failover and failback with zero-touch operation
- Continuous access during component, device, or node failures
- Transparent resynchronization after system repair
- Active-active data paths for resilient performance
- Eliminates application downtime during storage failures
- Zero RPO and zero RTO for local failures
- Supports metro/stretch configurations for site-level availability within short distances
- Asynchronous replication to remote or secondary sites
- Automated DR failover, failback, and resynchronization
- Maintains off-site copies for regional outage protection
- Supports recovery workflows for planned or unplanned events
- Supports controlled site switchover for maintenance or outages
- WAN-optimized replication for long-distance DR scenarios
- Low RPO based on replication interval and WAN latency
- RTO dependent on application restart time at DR site
- Snapshots for quick restoration to earlier data states
- Supports configuring snapshots as immutable for tamperproof protection
- Backup integration with leading tools (Veeam, Commvault , etc.)
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) enables rollback to precise points in time — often seconds apart
- RPO depends on snapshot/CDP granularity; RTO varies by media and data size
- Protection against accidental deletion, corruption, and logic errors
- Rapid recovery from ransomware or malicious changes
- Multiple restore-point options based on retention needs
- Continuous assessment and resiliency rating of storage protection posture
- Real-time evaluation of redundancy, replication, and configuration health
- Highlights degradation in protection levels instantly
- Helps prioritize fixes before issues cause downtime
- Provides clear visibility into readiness for failure scenarios
- Tracks improvement as protection layers evolve
- Abstracts and unifies diverse SAN and HCI storage
- Works across unlike storage arrays, hypervisors, and platforms
- Extends life of existing hardware and avoids vendor lock-in
- Supports mixed generations and models of storage
- Supports multiple protocols for data access, including iSCSI, Fiber Channel, and NVMe-oF
- Centralized storage control plane for consistent data services
- Simplifies BC/DR architecture in heterogeneous environments
- Non-disruptive hardware refresh and data migration
- Seamless capacity expansion without downtime
- Automated management workflows reduce admin overhead
- Consistent data services delivered across all storage tiers
- Consolidates multiple protection mechanisms under one platform
- Standardizes BC/DR operations across distributed environments
“SANsymphony works extremely well from a high availability standpoint and allows for proactive and reactive failures – while still providing high performance. If one site goes down, the city can still function, and end-users don’t even know there is a problem. With DataCore, we can always stay up.”
StarWind for Highly Available HCI at the Edge, ROBO & SMB Sites
StarWind delivers a compact, highly available hyperconverged infrastructure platform ideal for edge locations, remote/branch offices, and smaller IT environments. It combines compute and storage in a simple, resilient configuration that keeps critical workloads running without requiring shared SAN hardware or large operational overhead. Its simple deployment model, built-in redundancy, and automated failover provide reliable protection where IT resources are limited, making StarWind a powerful business continuity solution for distributed sites.
- True 2-node HA clustering with synchronous replication
- No external witness required for standard 2-node deployments
- Optional witness/quorum for enhanced split-brain protection across sites
- Supports 3-way mirroring for higher redundancy where needed
- Automated failover and failback to maintain workload uptime
- Self-healing rebuild process restores redundancy after a failure
- Continuous access during node, disk, or component failures
- Converges compute, storage, and virtualization into a small-footprint cluster
- Ideal for space- and power-constrained locations
- Delivers consistent performance without requiring specialized storage expertise
- Integrated management interface for streamlined operations
- Easily deployed as a turnkey appliance or software-only virtual SAN
- Eliminates the need for external shared SAN/NAS hardware
- Minimal hardware requirements and low entry cost
- Designed for environments with limited or no on-site IT staff
- Remote management for centralized oversight of distributed deployments
- Predictable, easy-to-operate platform for local critical applications
- Supports multiple hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Proxmox VE
- Multi-protocol storage access options, including iSCSI and NVMe-oF
- Scales up or out as site requirements grow
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“DataCore is definitely one of the main reasons our mission-critical apps run faster; the SANsymphony caching and performance acceleration capabilities play a vital role.”
Lamar Nicholson
Storage & Virtual Environment Architect