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Enterprise continuity management
K Aravazhi, VP of Sales at Sanovi, spoke about Panaces,
the company’s enterprise continuity management software.
K Aravazhi |
Sanovi presented its enterprise continuity manager, Panaces.
Panaces monitors RPO or RTO, automates failover or fallback, eases test drills,
and ensures test drills. It’s vendor-agnostic, so it works with a wide
range of hardware, operating systems, databases, replication technologies and
applications. It integrates well with enterprise software like Tivoli, Unicentre,
OpenView, etc.
Often, in organisations, application-level recovery is manual and there is no
control to measure continuity or recovery. Moreover, scripting is complex and
capacity is over-engineered. Measuring impact of change on recovery is not possible.
Sanovi gives one solution for all above problems—Panaces. Panaces helps
in Continuity Workflow Management, Testing or DR Drills, Continuity Monitoring,
and Audit or Compliance Reporting.
The enterprise software provides integrated continuity management
of applications and data protection or recovery systems. The various features
include integrated continuity management, central repository, testing &
verification, compliance & audit response, and heterogeneous support (databases,
OS, storage and replication software).
For testing or DR drills, Panaces has built-in, granular, non-intrusive tests;
intrusive testing at the DR site without affecting production; and pre-drill
checklist tracking.
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Panaces is vendor-agnostic, so
it works with a wide range of hardware, operating systems, databases,
replication technologies and applications
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K Aravazhi, VP of Sales at Sanovi, said that business benefits
include increased availability, lower DR deployment and compliance costs, assured
continuity, guaranteed RoI on DR assets, lower operational costs, reduction
of complex and manual operations, lower testing effort and cost, no need for
‘subject matter expert’ intervention, and reduction in change management
impact on continuity.
Continuity workflow management is implemented by Panaces with
flip-of-switch failover, fallback, switchover and switchback operations, integrated
data recovery and consistency, ecosystem failover, and built-in replication
for log shipment and application data. The recovery process configuration and
pre-architected solutions ensure continuity provisioning. “If you don’t
have Panaces it’s likely that your DR won’t work,” said Aravazhi.
| Challenge |
Sanovi Panaces Solution |
| Heterogeneous environment |
Eliminate manual scripts and customisation.
Agents for all vendor applications and data protection schemes. Inter-operability
across mainframe, Unix, Windows and Linux environments, and popular databases.
Standard approach to implementing continuity solutions. |
| Real-time visibility |
Computes real-time metrics like RPO/RTO,
site-level and application-level availability, and site-level disaster tolerance,
and presents it on a single console to help you monitor, measure and manage
your Business Continuity solution. |
| Incident management |
Provides automatic and controlled policy
responses to various events. |
| Continuity management |
Provides secure flip-of-the-switch control
to move the application between continuity states.
Eg. normal mode to failover to fallback operations. |
| Testability
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Provides different levels of non-intrusive
and intrusive testing that can be scheduled or executed and monitored on
demand. |
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