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Development of an Unified SnapShot Solution
The Customer - Our customer (a Fortune 500 company) is a leader in services oriented storage software solutions. They develop and distribute complete storage solutions for enterprises of all sizes.
The Challenge - Typical Challenges faced in storage management are –
- Efficient Storage Provisioning and Storage Management – Simplified and unified storage provisioning to support applications and change management (grow/shrink) without application downtimes
- Protect Data from Corruptions and Attacks
- Integration between Application and Storage – Achieve End-to-End Seamless Integration between Application and Storage and Build integration between SnapShot and multiple enterprise apps.
The Solutions -
Calsoft helped them by developing a SnapShot. This is an OS Independent / Unified Snapshot Solution. This provides a unified SnapShoting mechanism for SAN / NAS arrays and has consistent SnapShot interface across Operating Systems. This supports both Volume and File Snapshots’ and provides a Generic API.
SnapShot Solution provides - SnapShot Management, Provisioning and Multi Application integration capability. In SnapShot management it maps LUNs / SnapShots to Host and Off-Host and performs SnapShot replication. In provisioning it performs management of backend storage such as:
- Backend storage Aggregation / Creation / Deletion / Growth
- Building Logical Objects (Volumes, LUNs)
- RAID configuration
Calsoft’s other major contribution are:
- Extending the support for other applications such as: Oracle Database with RAC support, SAP, VMware, Hyper-V, etc.
- Supporting Windows, UNIX and LINUX OS
We follow stringent IP protection and confidentiality practices and policies. At Calsoft, multiple customer projects run concurrently but we never had a single breach of customer confidentiality in past 12+ years.
The Benefits -
Unified SnapShot Solution
Enabled Storage ISVs to –
- Achieve faster time to market by 40%
- Reduce compatibility testing time by almost 60%
- Tightly integrate with MS-Exchange, SQL, Oracle, etc.
- Interoperate with leading OSs, Hypervisors, and leading backup applications
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"Calsoft team has made critical contribution to our development effort."
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