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Actifio Sky-R
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Actifio Virtual Data Pipeline™ for Business Resiliency
At a Glance
Key Benefits
Copy Data Virtualization from Actifio helps companies take control of
their data, delivering greater business resilience and flexibility. As a
robust virtual appliance, Actifio Sky-R is built on Actifio’s patented Virtual
Data Pipeline™ (VDP), yet offers a new level of deployment flexibility
and range. Actifio Sky-R is ready for the demanding data protection, and
instant recovery needs of most environments.
SPEED
Actifio Sky-R is simply the fastest and easiest way to recover your
application and data when and where you need them. This virtual
appliance is an on-premise solution to protect & instantly recover
applications locally or to your remote office with the click of a button.
INSTANT
RECOVERY
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Instantly recover applications and data up to 15TB
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Orchestrate recovery of multi-tier applications instantly at your
remote DR site with Actifio Resiliency Director™: http://www.actifio.
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Save significant time by using a single tool to manage backups,
replication, vault, and DR
SIMPLICITY
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Customize Service Level Agreements and let VDP execute and
manage your copy data
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One robust backup and DR solution for all of your physical
and virtual platforms
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Easy to use management allows for efficient administration
and recoveries
SCALABILITY
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Rapidly deploy, discover, and protect all of your data and applications
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Scales to large databases and protects with an incremental forever
approach
FINANCIAL
Business Resiliency with Actifio Sky-R:
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Wide platform support allows protection of both physical
and virtual environments.
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Application centric Service Level Agreements (SLA) meet the needs
of your individual applications
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Application consistent data capture
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Incremental forever data protection even on very large data sets
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Instant recoveries of physical and virtual machines local or to a
remote office
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Flexible RPO from 4 hours to 24 hours for remote DR
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Efficient data retention up to 3 years
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Enterprise grade security with encryption in transit and at rest
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Reduce the business cost of downtime with low RTO of mission
critical applications
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Reduce storage burden by consolidating data protection silos,
deduplication, and compression
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Achieve significant cost savings by replacing multiple point tools for
backup, replication, & DR orchestration
Key Features and Capabilities
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Incremental forever data protection—Actifio Sky-R ingests
data using forever incremental approach, even for large multi TB
SQL Server and Oracle databases. This ensures lowest impact on
production applications and production storage.
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Instant data access—Directly mount or clone a virtual copy of data
for nearly instant access and recovery times.
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WAN-optimized replication protocol—Leverage a highly efficient
data movement protocol, optimizing bandwidth usage by only
transferring unique changed data to a remote Sky-R appliance. This
drives network usage down by up to 70%.
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Disaster Recovery—with Actifio Resiliency Director™, users create
remote recovery plans. Once the recovery plans are created, they
can be executed on-demand for DR, DR test, or staging.
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Eliminate Data Protection Challenges
ONE TOOL FOR MOBILITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
ELIMINATE MULTIPLE BACKUP PRODUCTS
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BACKUP #1
BACKUP #2
REPLICATION #1
REPLICATION #2
PHYSICAL
VIRTUAL
PHYSICAL
VIRTUAL
CHALLENGE: MULTIPLE POINT TOOLS
CHALLENGE: MULTIPLE POINT TOOLS
EFFECTIVELY PROTECT LARGE DATA SETS
INSTANT RECOVERY
CHALLENGE: RECURRING FULL BACKUPS
CHALLENGE: LARGE RECOVERY TIMES
Enterprise grade security and auditability—Encryption in motion,
optional encryption at rest, and isolation of recovery environment.
Role Based Access Control allows only authorized users to do
specific operations, and audit trails ensure users actions are tracked
from login to logout.
On premises and remote vaulting—Users can store multiple
backup versions both on premises and remote, enabling seamless
operational restores at either location.
On Premise System Requirements
Actifio Sky-R, is delivered and easily installed on-premise as a virtual
appliance in your existing VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Amazon EC2
environments. Local installation requires the following VM capabilities for
each Sky-R instance:
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Environment Support
A single Actifio Sky-R can protect, vault, and recover application data size
of up to 15 TB and supports the following environments:
15 TB of protected data capacity
15 TB of protected data capacity (with encryption)
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64 GB memory, 12 vCPU
64 GB memory, 14 vCPU
For Amazon—R3.4XLarge (as of March, 2015)
For data sizes between 15–30 TB, use two Actifio Sky-R instances. For
data sizes larger than 30 TB, Actifio recommends an enterprise platform.
See your Actifio representative for more details.
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Physical servers with Windows and Linux OS
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VMs on VMware platform
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VMs on Microsoft Hyper-V (non CSV)
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Application data in Amazon EC2
Try and Buy
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Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases
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Oracle database and business applications
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Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint applications
Actifio Sky-R is available from Actifio or through an Actifio
authorized reseller and can be acquired as a capital purchase
or on a subscription basis.
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Custom multi-tier apps built around Microsoft SQL Server
and Oracle databases
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Provide your contact information here to be contacted by a sales
representative: http://www.actifio.com/buy/
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For additional information, visit Actifio at www.actifio.com or contact
Actifio at [email protected] or 877.282.5373
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Support and Professional Services
About Actifio
Actifio offers the following services for Sky-R:
Actifio pioneered the industry’s first virtual storage system optimized for
managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT
infrastructure and data management applications.
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Sky-R download, installation & implementation
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Design review & validation, project management, knowledge
transfer, operational readiness (alerting, monitoring, daily
administration, capacity management), and system integration
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Add-on services—There are many optional, additional service
offerings. Please consult your Actifio representative for additional
information.
Maintenance
Variable maintenance options are available ranging from next day to
same day premium service. Consult your Actifio Sales Representative to
determine the option that best matches your requirements.
Actifio One, Actifio Sky, and Actifio CDS platforms are based on patented
Virtual Data Pipeline technology (VDP), delivering dramatically enhanced
business availability by eliminating backup and restore windows and the
creation of virtual point in time copies of data-on-demand, for use by
any business application, integrating data deduplication, network and
processor utilization optimization. Actifio provides the most efficient way
to manage data growth while solving your biggest IT challenges around
information protection and availability.
For additional information, visit Actifio at www.actifio.com
or contact Actifio at [email protected] or 877.282.5373
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