Press Release
YottaYotta Wins
Contract with U.S. DoD
GSX
3000 to Provide Fully-Active COOP Capability
EDMONTON, AB, Nov.
8, 2005 – YottaYotta, the
High Performance Netstorage® Company, announced today that a
strategic analysis center of the United States Department of Defense
has installed, trialed, and purchased the company’s new GSX 3000
NetStorage Control Node.
The GSX 3000 offers a suite of Global Block Services that set a new
standard for high-performance, resilient global data sharing, and
fully-active business continuity, also known as continuity of
operations (COOP). The GSX 3000 opens up new approaches to managing and
implementing critical storage applications including transparent
multi-site data sharing, site-aware geographic RAID, and high-speed
data transport across multiple distributed centers. The result is
increased utilization of IT resources, local SAN performance over the
WAN, and fully-active business continuity or COOP.
“The Department of Defense represents a large enterprise customer with
significant mission critical infrastructure and COOP requirements that
exceed the feature set of traditional storage networking solutions,”
said Jack Kurtz, vice president of sales and business development for
YottaYotta. “With the introduction of the GSX 3000, DoD and federal IT
managers can now more easily and flexibly ensure vital information and
critical storage network assets are protected and continuously
available while at the same time greatly accelerating access to data on
a daily basis.”
FULLY-ACTIVE COOP
CAPABILITY
The requirement to provide its customers with uninterrupted operations
of essential mission critical needs motivated the DoD center to
re-examine its continuity of operations plan (COOP). The center
conducted technology assessment studies to develop COOP plans in
response to Presidential Directive 67 and Federal Preparedness Circular
65. Like most government agencies, it concluded at the time that no
vendor offered a true “active-active” COOP capability in a mixed-vendor
storage and server architecture environment. From these technology
assessments, the DoD center concluded that its COOP needs at that time
were best satisfied by traditional tape based methodologies that
restored essential functions based upon a complex prioritized list of
restoration timelines. A better solution was clearly needed.
COOP IN A WEEK –
TRIAL TO OPERATIONAL
To validate YottaYotta’s claim of addressing this critical operational
COOP need for continuous, high-performance protection with seamless
integration into a mixed-vendor SAN distributed file system
environment, the center procured YottaYotta’s GSX 3000 NetStorage
Control Node and established a trial environment that simulated its
production storage environment. Together with YottaYotta technical
personnel, the center encapsulated existing file systems and
demonstrated active-active COOP operations in one day. These
integration efforts included mirroring multiple heterogeneous
“production site” file systems to the COOP site. Following this
initial success, the center successfully demonstrated uninterrupted
continuity of operations via simulated catastrophic failures of both
production site storage and servers. The entire integration timeline
from start (establishment of simulated environment) to finish (site
fail-over testing) was five days.
The ability to demonstrate transparent and truly “active-active”
operations sets new standards for performance, ease of deployment, and
flexibility in COOP architectures. “By eliminating OEM dependencies,
YottaYotta enables DoD engineers to design COOP environments that
leverage the latest technology advancements in both disk and tape
technologies,” said George Bell, founder of SMS, the systems integrator
responsible for the implementation at the DoD center. “Many vendors
promise active-active continuity of operations, YottaYotta actually
delivers on that promise with transparent storage system fail-over that
can deliver a zero recovery time objective [RTO] and recovery point
objective [RPO]. Within one week, YottaYotta, and more importantly, DoD
personnel, were able to install and demonstrate a functional
active-active COOP capability independent of storage and server
architectures.”
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About YottaYotta
YottaYotta is setting the new enterprise
standard for resilient, high-performance global data sharing and
fully-active continuity of operations (COOP). The GSX 3000
NetStorage Control Node and YottaYotta’s suite of Global Block services
localize access to globally coherent data, enabling organizations to
leverage their entire storage infrastructure across multiple
distributed sites while providing a significant reduction in WAN
traffic. The result is increased utilization of IT resources, SAN
performance over the WAN, and continuity of operations despite site
failures and network disruptions. Founded in January 2000,
YottaYotta is privately funded with offices in Edmonton, AB and
Alexandria, VA. For more information go to www.YottaYotta.com.
YottaYotta,
NetStorage, NetStorager, UNITY Pilot, and YYESS are registered
trademarks of YottaYotta, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein
are the property of their respective owners.
For further information contact:
Robert Handlovsky
Director, Marketing
YottaYotta, Inc.
(780) 989-6883
rhandlovsky@yottayotta.com
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