Egenera receives disaster recovery patent
Massachusetts company designs a disaster recovery solution which simplifies moving entire groups of servers, including their storage and network connections, to remote sites
We note that Marlborough, Massachusetts-based data protection company Egenerahas received a patent for its new disaster recovery system. The system is called N+1, and its purpose is to simplify moving entire groups of servers, including their storage and network connections, to remote sites. When a company’s servers fail, the N+1 system brings the company’s system back up within minutes from the remote site, the company said. Currently available recovery systems, the company said, may take hours to bring servers back to life.
The N+1 system is based on Egenera’s Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture, which reinstates clusters within minutes at the new site, without hardware configuration. A single back-up site can adopt the configuration of any number of primary sites on demand. The PAN architecture creates pools of compute, storage, and network resources which can be dynamically allocated to applications as needed. The PAN virtualizes server and network resources in the same way that a Storage Area Network (SAN) virtualizes storage resources.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent — U.S. Patent No. 7,178,059 — yesterday.
