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LightSand receives IBM certification for the extension of Metro/Global PPRC/PPRC-XD over IPPLANO, TX, October 31, 2006. LightSand® Communications, Inc., a company pioneering SAN Connectivity solutions, announced today that it is providing the solution chosen by IBM BCRS to extend Metro/Global PPRC/PPRC-XD over IP for a mission critical architecture in Portugal. The IBM BCRS Customer planned deployment of its core production systems at a new datacenter location. This reorganization required to have minimal operation downtime, and to minimize the risk of service disruption or data loss. The customer executed the migration in collaboration with IBM, and in accordance with the IBM Business Continuity Plan. This plan featured a High Availability solution guaranteeing continuous operation for the customer during the relocation, while providing alternative systems preventing any hardware problem during the relocation. The Production Center allocated IBM zSeries server and two ESS-800 storage subsystems. The fact that the customer already had in production two ESS-800 units running in a PPRC (Metro Mirror/Synchronous PPRC) for redundancy reasons facilitated the construction of the High Availability architecture. Synchronous data replication was configured and running between two ESS-800 in customer production over short distance (campus). In order to replicate the entire data information to the new data center a second copy process was implemented in asynchronous mode. Using this method there were no customer impact during the data replication to the remote facility, while establishing two levels of redundancy. The customer achieved local protection guaranteed by the PPRC Synchronous as well as remote protection by the asynchronous part. This also guaranteed availability of alternative systems for the customer to continue production, should a hardware problem have occurred with the systems relocation, and this, until such problem was resolved. To build such architecture, IBM has selected the LightSand i8100A, as it provides unique SAN routing capabilities enabling disk storage sharing within multi-vendor environments and without Fabric merge. Thanks to its WAN failover capabilities, the i8100A simplified the implementation of a fully redundant architecture enabling a high availability infrastructure between customer sites at a low cost. “This is the most recent of several certifications that we have received from IBM illustrating our capacity to connect to any standard dataflow, from any device and any network component. These certifications are particularly important and meaningful to us, because they illustrate our ability to free up customers from the constraints introduced into actual Business Continuity contingency plans by the WAN, namely distance and link reliability, said Richard Czech, CEO of LightSand. We now have demonstrated time and time again that, in the highly demanding production environments of IBM customers, LightSand solutions provide highly effective and reliable storage extension solutions over distance.” LightSand was awarded both the TotalStorage Proven and Server Proven certifications by IBM for this implementation, recognizing the successful deployment and operations of the LightSand solutions in the actual customer production environment. The full overview of LightSand Products, Solutions and Certifications is available at www.lightsand.com.
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