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Disaster Recovery
Are You Prepared for Disaster?
PRODUCTS
• Emulate data center and server failures
• Characterize recovery of storage systems from backup data Net Tool Optimizer
centers Network Emulator
• Comply with regulatory mandates

Driven by mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley, Disaster Recovery &

Business Continuity (DR/BC) has become a critical agenda item for IT
executives. As a result, DR/BC testing has risen in importance.

For many corporations, remote storage

is a key ingredient in their disaster
recovery and business continuity
planning. In addition to the business
need, in many industries, such as
banking and health care, remote storage
may soon be a regulatory requirement.
For example, qualifying financial
enterprises may have to maintain an
alternative backup site 200-300 miles
from the primary site, according to the
Federal Reserve and SEC.
Learn more about Regulatory
Requirements.

Establishing a remote storage operation creates many challenges, particularly in the case of a synchronous
remote storage solution. Depending on distance, transmission latency can have a significant impact on
applications. Errors on the network can affect response times and data integrity. These issues, if not
addressed, can result in lost data and lost business to a corporation. The bottom line: you must conduct
remote storage and disaster recovery testing of your solution before deployment.

To meet this need of validating data recovery plans in a lab environment before going live, many
corporations use network emulators from Anue Systems.

• Anue Network Emulators are perfect for stress testing networks and network devices
◦ Disaster recovery testing can be conducted using the Anue Emulator to delay Fibre
Channel, Gigabit Ethernet or SONET (OC3 to OC192) signal a user-specified amount of time
without modifying the data.
◦ This simulates the latency that occurs over WANs, MANs and interconnected SANs much
more accurately than using spools of fiber.
◦ Progressively increase the injected bit error rate and error rate or eliminate specific packets
to faciliate testing of signal fail/ degrade algorithms.

• Anue provides multi-protocol emulators

◦ Combine Anue's Fibre Channel, GigE or SONET loads on one system to cost-effectively test
many types of connections (such as iSCSI/iFCP/FCiP).

• Anue allows software application layer testing

◦ Test the effects of latency and errors on critical software applications using Anue Network
Emulators regardless of the underlying WAN protocol. For example, you can tune your
remote storage solutions to make sure critical transactions don't time out as a result of
distance latency. This can be achieved without the complicated setup of an entire network
of switches, optical fiber, protocol mappers, etc.

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