Expand Network Solutions

High Business Availability

Business demands 100% application availability, despite the complexities of application management under the best of conditions. While the cost of lost business due to unavailable applications can be extremely high, the cost of lost data can be astronomical.

Redundant infrastructures ensure that the productivity of the business is not affected by unplanned and uncontrollable outages. Disaster recovery infrastructures ensure that the business is always available and ready.

The Challenge: The Cost of Redundancy

Disaster recovery projects could as much as double network traffic, which can prove quite expensive if upgrades are needed. However, even with sufficient bandwidth, congestion can dramatically slow down backups and synchronizations, or worse, slow down the other critical applications running the business. Is the cost of a separate disaster recovery network in the budget?

Even without congestion, large file transfers (for example, large database backups) may not be able to run at line speed due to TCP slow down. This means that transfers could take an astonishingly long time and the risk of time out is high. With the likely need for network upgrades, the probability of additional congestion degrading performance and efficiency, and the risk that backups time out, the cost of redundancy can be extraordinarily high.

Expand's Disaster Recovery Solution

Expand’s solution enables a cost effective business continuity solution, greatly improving the capacity and efficiency of the network. The result is high business availability without sacrificing productivity.

WAN Optimization

Supplying additional bandwidth is the first way that Expand enables disaster recovery. As the pioneer in WAN compression, Expand’s low latency compression reliably delivers between 100% and 400% bandwidth improvement on average with peaks of 1,000%. Additionally, Expand’s QoS can eliminate the need for a separate business continuity network, as application congestion is managed according to business priority, allowing the coexistence of traffic running business applications, and traffic protecting the business (synchronization and backups) on the same network. Eliminating the need to upgrade the network, while enabling traffic to coexist on that network, keeps the costs manageable for disaster recovery projects.

Acceleration

Even with ample network bandwidth and no congestion, large file transfers across long networks can take too long, often causing time outs and failed transfers. This is not due to failures in the network equipment, but is caused by the network TCP protocol that was not designed for large file transfers over long (high latency) networks. Expand’s Protocol Acceleration optimizes TCP flows, “filling the pipe,” to ensure backups and large synchronizations complete quickly and avoid time outs.

Let Premier Technologies show you a complete end-to-end solution for disaster recovery, including your network bandwidth. Contact us today.

Premier Technologies Inc.
Penn Center West, Bldg 4, Ste 230, Penn Center Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15276
Phone: 412.788.8080 | Fax: 412.788.1778 | E-mail: info@premweb.com