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TimeSpring Continuous Data Protection

Dropping transactions or losing data translates to lost orders, customers and critical management decisions. TimeData™ software ensures that you avoid these costly pitfalls by ensuring the reliability and integrity of your data, through complete, transparent protection of data from logical and physical corruption.

TimeData provides you with a moment-by-moment view of your data and transactions, and allows you to quickly and simply recover from data loss or corruption by “turning back time” to a precise moment before the corruption or loss occurred with a painless point and click. You can meet Recovery Point Objectives that are measured in transaction time, not hours or days.

Improve your productivity by analysing, reporting and testing offline using real data from any moment in time, without impacting ongoing operations or your production applications. Testing applications, patches, and upgrades using real data is also a great way to minimise planned as well as unplanned downtime.

TimeData makes it possible to avoid costly downtime and leverage your data assets by automatically capturing all changes to data in real time and maintaining an efficient repository of “time-dimensioned” data. Viewing and retrieving data from the TimeData repository is simple and fast, so your Recovery Time Objectives can be minutes, not hours.

TimeData simplifies operations and makes IT more cost-effective and efficient by taking away the drudgery, complexity, and uncertainly associated with traditional data protection. It integrates seamlessly into your standard server, storage, and network environments and leverages existing tape backup infrastructure for long term and offsite archive.

TimeData ensures business continuity by making up-to-date and historical data readily available at a remote site over standard Wide Area Networks.

TimeData Benefits:

  • Recover from logical or physical corruption to any consistent moment in time - improved Recovery Point Objective

  • Avoid costly downtime by retrieving data quickly - improved Recovery Time Objective

  • Improve robustness and availability of business applications

  • Ensure business continuity even in the event of disaster

  • Reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by simplifying and automating data protection
  • Eliminate backup windows

  • Reduce planned and unplanned downtime by making data quickly available at the level of granularity required - from a single file to an entire database

  • Simple to install and use - no special hardware or specialist skills required, emulates Internet Explorer

  • Derive more value from your data by making a complete time dimensioned repository of real data available for business intelligence, offline analysis, reporting or testing

  • Maintain a policy managed or complete history of all data changes to support data audit and retention objectives

Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is different from traditional backup in that you don't have to specify the point in time to which you would like to recover until you are ready to perform a restore. Traditional backups can only restore data to the point at which the backup was taken. With CDP, there are no backup schedules. When data is written to disk, it is also asynchronously written to a second location, usually another computer over the network, eliminating the need for nightly scheduled backups.

CDP automatically saves a copy of every change made to data, capturing every version of the data that the user saves. CDP allows the user or administrator to restore data to any point in time, saving time scheduling backups, changing or managing tapes, or checking logs to see which backups have failed. With CDP running in the background, protecting data becomes an automatic operation.

CDP happens automatically and transparently requiring no manual intervention. The only time an IT Administrator interacts with the software is when initiating a recovery. This greatly frees up administrators to work on other more pressing IT tasks and provides tremendous peace of mind.

Alternative solutions marketed as 'CDP' or' K-CDP' (Kinda-CDP) only let you restore to fixed intervals such as 1 hour ago or 24 hours ago (these approaches are "Snapshot based") and are therefore not true continuous data protection - you do not have the ability to restore to any point in time.

TimeData Product Demonstrations

Microsoft Exchange Server - www.timespring.net/CDPexchange.htm

Microsoft SQL Server - www.timespring.net/CDPdemo.html