Novell has refreshed its PlateSpin management line so that tools used to restore workloads from physical and virtual machines in the data centre can do so up to 50% faster than previous versions.
The company said PlateSpin Protect 8.1 features improved block-based transfer technology, which in contrast to traditional file-based transfers that copy entire files, replicates only changed blocks at the disk level.
The approach is intended to dramatically reduce the amount of data transferred which for organisations replicating workloads over a WAN should mean lower bandwidth costs, shorter backup windows, and faster workload recovery times.
The inclusion of features for file-level restore from protected workload images helps reduce restore times when only a few files or folders and not the whole workload, is needed.
PlateSpin tools are used to manage virtualisation in VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server or Citrix XenServer environments. The suite includes PlateSpin Recon, PlateSpin Orchestrate, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Forge.
