Actifio: One-of-a-kind DR Process Supporting All Heterogeneous Technologies

There has been a massive shift from a burdensome traditional DR, which required large amounts of costly hardware and additional data center, to a more efficient and cost-effective Cloud-based DR in maintaining the state of an application using low cost resources under ordinary operating conditions. Furthermore, Cloud-based DR has been aiding big/small enterprises in lowering their costs with its flexible pay-as-you-go pricing. Although, Cloud-based DR comes with its list of benefits, customers need solutions with precisely integrated applications and support all heterogeneous technologies, i.e., VMs, databases and physical servers, with precise optimization on protection and recovery methods which excludes lengthy and complex scans.


The challenge for many analytics environments is getting the data to the analytics in a timely and cost-effective manner. Actifio’s ability to move data to any location at any time provides incredible flexibility in enabling analytics and on-demand BCP/DR


With one-of-a-kind approach to capture application data in an incremental forever manner, across all heterogeneous technologies, and guaranteeing recoverability with deep application integration, Actifio’s efficient technology solutions empower companies with powerful workflows to set specific elements of the DR processes including networking information (IP addresses, subnet masks, etc.), specific applications to include and order of bringing applications online. Untangling the DR process - performing and testing recoveries, Actifio facilitates simple push button DR and DR testing by precisely automating the DR process as a whole. Regardless of size, Actifio provides the ability to instantly recover
protected information in minutes, ensuring recoverability in no time irrespective of protected data.

In the context of creating business value with on-demand analytics, Ravi Kollipara Vice President and Country Manager at Actifio highlights, “The challenge for many analytics environments is getting the data to the analytics in a timely and cost-effective manner. Actifio’s ability to move data to any location at any time provides incredible flexibility in enabling analytics and on-demand BCP/DR.”

Accelerating the Data Recovery Time
Actifio’s unique architecture offers flexibility, reliability, recovery and agility in BCP/DR processes, it offers a concurrent solution which facilitates recovery of massive volumes of databases, VMs and physical servers at scale within minutes, with more frequent and efficient DR tests. It is in total contrast with the traditional recovery mechanisms that recover massive data movement to recover even a single data from a database. Moreover, they are continuously evolving their products to support new databases, hypervisors and clouds to further enhance reliability and protection.

Getting Data Off-site with Various Methodologies
Supporting on-premises, cloud storage and also traditional data replication between sites, Actifio provides a number of different methodologies to get data offsite for DR purposes. “Customers can configure data movement policies that incorporate one or both technologies and these policies can be applied at an application level. Thus, a customer might choose to leverage object storage for certain data sets and not for others, and similarly apply replication to certain applications,” concludes Ravi Kollipara.