Vision Solutions, a provider of disaster recovery offerings in the IBM Power Systems markets, has released RecoverNow V5.1, a data protection offering for the IBM i operating system that protects businesses by automatically capturing data and object changes that occur between tape saves, continuously saving them on storage devices.
The company said that the recent upgrade offers a new recovery assistant that automates and simplifies recovery operations for customers. It features built-in journal management automation and protects data by leveraging and extending the capabilities of IBM i journaling.
In the event of tape failure, the data is still protected due to its ability to complete a near-point-of-failure recovery even from an earlier tape set, the company claims.
According to Vision Solutions, the new offering includes continuous data protection (CDP) rewind capabilities to recover damaged or deleted data at any point in time. It can recover just one or many files, objects or libraries and uses current disk space to store RecoverNow backup data, including IBM i, AIX, Windows, Linux, HP/UX or other UNIX storage devices. No additional software needed.
Craig Johnson, vice president of research and development at Vision Solutions, said: RecoverNow makes protecting data fast, easy and affordable by saving information on current storage devices including those connected to Windows, Linux or UNIX environments.
“The upgraded software solution enables data and objects to be brought back to near the point of failure, or to any point in time after the last tape save, using powerful Continuous Data Protection [CDP] capabilities – dramatically reducing the amount of data a customer could potentially lose if they were only using a tape based data protection scheme.
