Software Quality Research Library

The first decade of the third millennium is witnessing technological innovation and advancement at unprecedented rates. In the realm of information management, the following technology trends have rapidly emerged:

--Information has become extremely time-sensitive.

--Applications demand nearly continuous availability.

--Hardware and software release and redesign cycles are increasingly frequent.

--Data volumes are growing exponentially.

--Business and data resources have become more geographically dispersed.

--Regulatory and contractual requirements are increasingly stringent.

--Open system environments have put both applications and servers at greater risk.

To avoid being left behind, every organization -- small, medium, or large -- must position its sites, systems, servers, applications, databases, files, and data for protection not only now, but well into the future. Deploying a scalable enterprise-wide approach assures a company that they'll surface from any information disaster -- folder level, server level, or site level -- with no negative impact on operations. This paper describes a single, fifth generation data protection model that assures 24 x 7 uninterrupted business continuity for your organization's mission-critical applications in all information-related disaster scenarios.