ANALYSTS

Axxana's Phoenix System is one of the more interesting innovations to emerge in disaster recovery in recent years. The company has taken a realistic approach to attaining zero RPO, while taking into consideration the fundamental limitations of the speed of light and the high cost of traditional synchronous mirroring implementations.

Henry Balthazar, Storage Analyst, The 451 Group

Axxana's announcement of "EDR" as a new domain in Replication enabled Disaster Recovery is intriguing. This new concept of an Enterprise Black Box may force us to totally reevaluate how data centers ensure zero data loss and full data recovery over traditionally long distances.

Noemi Greyzdorf, IDC

People in our user community often joke that ‘speed of light is a tricky problem. We have our best people working on it.' With its Black Box, Axxana has found a way around this challenge with a cost-effective solution that enables zero data loss at asynchronous distances. It's simply brilliant.

David Vellante, co-founder of ITCentrix Inc. , Barometrix, and The Wikibon Project

At NM Rothschild, we believe we should protect all of our data, not just transactional but unstructured data such as e-mail and Office documents as well as other non-transactional information. Axxana's Black Box will allow us to protect all of our data in a synchronous way, using our existing European data centers and without applying an unreasonable level of cost to do so. We have to be certain that, if we needed to recover, the data will be there.

Steve Pikett , Head of IT N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd

From decades of experience both as a buyer of technology at State Street Bank and as an advisor to startups at market research firm, IDC, I have seen companies and technologies come and go. A startup's success depends upon the leadership, upon partnerships, and the ability of the technology to solve a significant problem. Axxana's Black Box, designed by Dr. Winokur and his engineering team, is a solid solution to an aching pain. Through the company's partnerships with leading storage vendors, both the company and the technology have real staying power.

John McArthur, President, Walden Technology Partners

Zero RPO means data lossless systems, and is the holy grail of disaster recovery systems. Systems that don't lose data are much simpler and faster to recover. The only way that companies could attempt to achieve zero RPO was with expensive three data center solutions. Axxana's revolutionary technology allows storage vendors to offer Zero RPO solutions with two data centers and much lower price points. All storage vendors with remote replication should and will race to enhance their products using this brilliant technology.

David Floyer, CTO & Co-Founder, the Wikibon Project

 Axxana is creating a new category of data protection solutions aimed at companies that have always-on business requirements. The deltas or data differences posed by asynchronous WAN-based data replication may just have found their answer in Axxana's innovative approach. Worth a closer look.

Jon Toigo, CEO Toigo Partners International in Tampa Bay, FL And author of six books on Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning.

A company has figured out how to enable long distance synchronous replication... I asked all the hard questions, and they had good answers for all of them. They have something real.

Robin Harris, Editor, StorageMojo

In my consulting work with global organizations, I frequently meet with IT leaders who are looking at new data centre strategies, with requirements to move their disaster recovery operations further away from primary sites. The need to maintain large distances between data centers is a reality today and not just because of regulation. Axxana's EDR is a key enabler in making this happen, allowing data to be protected with zero loss and at very long distances, as required by these organizations.

Chris M Evans, Consultant with Langton Blue Ltd and blogger at www.thestoragearchitect.com

Brilliant! I am impressed with Axxana's approach to preserving those last transactions, those last Gigabytes of information that are un-replicated in disaster scenarios and their ability to recover to consistency. The company's ‘enterprise data recorder' technology is truly a different, but detailed approach to protecting 100% of the transactions just before the building comes down. Axxana has thought about and executed every last detail.

Deni Connor, Principal Analyst, Storage Strategies NOW