EMC updates server recovery software

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 23 December 2009, 19:04 IST
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Bangalore: Last week, EMC upgraded its retrospect backup and recovery software for small and mid-size businesses with support for VMware consolidated backup, Windows 7 and an emergency recovery CD for disaster recovery of Windows servers and PCs, reports Computer World. Retrospect 7.7 also supports wake-on-LAN technology and has support for 64-bit processors and operating systems. A multi-server version of Retrospect 7.7 is available for $1,409; upgrades from 7.6 cost $299. According to Computer World, Virtual Instruments also announced a service for enterprise businesses that diagnoses and troubleshoots Fibre Channel SAN availability and performance emergencies. This service is based on the use of Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom monitoring and analysis software and hardware. The new SOS-4-SANs service remotely assesses the customers problem with the SAN and if necessary installs SAN instrumentation software for data collection and analysis. The service works with EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, HP, 3PAR, Dell, Sun, Brocade, Cisco, Qlogic and Emulex SAN products.