Jim McNeil, CEO of FalconStor joined Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon in theCube at VMworld 2011 to discuss the theory of why backup is broken, and what his company is doing to alleviate the problem.
McNeil started out by explaining why tape is a big part of why backup is broken. He said that tape has a very specific application, and it's no longer to provide quick recovery of data because it's not built efficiently for that. Backup traditionally has been a batch job, using spare cycles inside the environment to get its job done. Today, customers are aware that virtualization increases utilization and consumes all the excess free cycles. Therefore, you need something that lives within the fabric of your environment that can coincide and co-exist with virtualization and collect data as it's created, and not just perform a massive data move at the end of every day. McNeil stated, "To return data to active use quickly, you need to use a snapshot or replication technology."
McNeil believes there's a need for a solution that collects new data constantly, which he referred to as the "time machine for the enterprise." As always, the goal is to recover data in the shortest amount of time possible, and he believes replication and snapshot technology is the perfect way to do that. He named some examples of how it can be done, such as disk to disk, disk to disk to data center, or disk to disk to cloud, and for long term storage, archive to tape.
McNeil talked about the program FalconStor started at the end of 2010 called RUM -- their Reliability, Usability, and Manageability release -- which they used to build quality into the product and harden the core of their technology to ensure it was scalable & easily managed. Their plan was to build their vision of the time machine of the enterprise on top of it, which ultimately led to the launch of their V7 product for CDP (Continuous Data Protector), NSS (Network Storage Server), FDS (File-interface Deduplication System) and VTL (Virtual Tape Library) across the board. McNeil toted it as their highest quality, highest performance, most scalable product they've ever built, being the only product in the industry that supports 1000 snapshots of 64 terrabytes per LUN of storage space. He said, "It delivers a time machine for the enterprise." More importantly, McNeil noted that this is the basis upon which they're building the next generation of their product, which is going to deliver much more in terms of automation
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Jim McNeil, FalconStor | VMworld 2011
Jim McNeil, CEO of FalconStor joined Dave Vellante, Co-Founder of Wikibon in theCube at VMworld 2011 to discuss the theory of why backup is broken, and what his company is doing to alleviate the problem.
McNeil started out by explaining why tape is a big part of why backup is broken. He said that tape has a very specific application, and it's no longer to provide quick recovery of data because it's not built efficiently for that. Backup traditionally has been a batch job, using spare cycles inside the environment to get its job done. Today, customers are aware that virtualization increases utilization and consumes all the excess free cycles. Therefore, you need something that lives within the fabric of your environment that can coincide and co-exist with virtualization and collect data as it's created, and not just perform a massive data move at the end of every day. McNeil stated, "To return data to active use quickly, you need to use a snapshot or replication technology."
McNeil believes there's a need for a solution that collects new data constantly, which he referred to as the "time machine for the enterprise." As always, the goal is to recover data in the shortest amount of time possible, and he believes replication and snapshot technology is the perfect way to do that. He named some examples of how it can be done, such as disk to disk, disk to disk to data center, or disk to disk to cloud, and for long term storage, archive to tape.
McNeil talked about the program FalconStor started at the end of 2010 called RUM -- their Reliability, Usability, and Manageability release -- which they used to build quality into the product and harden the core of their technology to ensure it was scalable & easily managed. Their plan was to build their vision of the time machine of the enterprise on top of it, which ultimately led to the launch of their V7 product for CDP (Continuous Data Protector), NSS (Network Storage Server), FDS (File-interface Deduplication System) and VTL (Virtual Tape Library) across the board. McNeil toted it as their highest quality, highest performance, most scalable product they've ever built, being the only product in the industry that supports 1000 snapshots of 64 terrabytes per LUN of storage space. He said, "It delivers a time machine for the enterprise." More importantly, McNeil noted that this is the basis upon which they're building the next generation of their product, which is going to deliver much more in terms of automation
