At VMworld Europe 2015, Atlantis Computing introduced its new Atlantis USX 3.1 platform with a new feature called Stretched Cluster. Atlantis states that this new platform can reduce business continuity costs by half. The new Stretched Cluster feature enables zero RPO and RTO between multiple data centers while providing organizations with a highly efficient hyper-converged solution.
At VMworld Europe 2015, Atlantis Computing introduced its new Atlantis USX 3.1 platform with a new feature called Stretched Cluster. Atlantis states that this new platform can reduce business continuity costs by half. The new Stretched Cluster feature enables zero RPO and RTO between multiple data centers while providing organizations with a highly efficient hyper-converged solution.
Atlantis’ new Stretched Cluster feature enables businesses to tolerate the failure of an entire data center and not lose data or see a disruption in application availability. The new feature allows organizations to move volumes, data and VMs between sites up to 100 miles apart with up to 8ms of round trip latency. And the Stretched Cluster feature automatically manages network failures between data centers to provide overall site protection that can be deployed as part of a hyper-converged architecture at no additional cost.
Previously a Stretched Cluster solution need two identical sites using synchronous mirroring of expensive SAN storage arrays to prevent data loss. This would require large amounts of bandwidth and the high costs that come with dedicated high-speed communications lines between sites. In order to cut bandwidth requirements, the new USX Stretched Cluster feature makes synchronous mirroring deduplication-aware. This will save costs and speed up recovery and enhance availability because Atlantis re-syncs only the incremental unique data blocks between locations.
Other features include:
- VMware Virtual Volume (VVOL) integration
- Deduplication-aware Snapshots
- Remote Replication
- Atlantis Desktop Workspace, the next-generation desktop virtualization solution for VMware Horizon Workspace Suite
Availability
Atlantis USX 3.1 with Stretched Cluster is generally available now and is no cost to existing customers with current support plans.
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