Case Study Industry Government, Military, Financial IT Environment MIS systems: SAP/R3 ERP/EKP and others Internet portal VoIP, IT, IC card Challenges Need to protect data in the event of disaster 170,000 members in need of continuous data and business availability LAN-based backup of data was management-intensive and difficult to complete within backup window FalconStor Solution IPStor® Server w/FC support (Linux dual CPU) Active-Active Failover option Replication option DiskSafe™ Replication TimeMark® Snapshot option Snapshot Agents Compression Encryption CallHome option DynaPath® Benefits Replicates 100GB of data per day from data center to DR site Protects data throughout entire organization Centralized storage management reduces management costs and staff requirements, optimizes use of resources Consolidated heterogeneous operating system and applications management Future-proof architecture with high scalability levels > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > “The FalconStor® IPStor® platform has astonishingly improved our entire backup management system. And now that we can manage two primary centers with our small staff, it provides significant cost benefits as well.” Hee-Chul Lee, Infrastructure and Operation Team Manager, MMAA Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) The largest Korean military association uses FalconStor® IPStor® software platform to create a two-way disaster recovery (DR) system Background The Military Mutual Aid Association (MMAA) was established in 1984 to enhance Korea’s armed forces by ensuring a more stable life for soldiers and civilian employees. The MMAA offers a membership savings program and provides funding for education, healthcare, and disaster relief. In addition, MMAA participates in financial invest- ments and construction projects, and contributes to Korea’s economic development. Never complacent about its achievements, the MMAA is committed to continual improvement while maintaining a “members-first” policy as its core value. Challenge The MMAA has firmly established itself as a valuable service provider for the military, supporting 170,000 members. With thousands of lives and billions of dollars in assets at stake, the MMAA needed to set up a disaster recovery (DR) system for business continuity to protect against system failure or site-level disaster. Though many organizations use one-way DR, the MMAA wanted to set up a two- way DR system. In two-way DR, asynchronous mirroring enables replication between two sites. However, the company’s existing LAN-based system made it difficult to manage and complete backups within a narrow timeframe. FalconStor Solution MMAA deployed FalconStor IPStor software to create a two-way DR system that replicates 100GB of data per day from the data center to a remote site. With the assistance of FalconStor Professional Services, MMAA used the IPStor virtualization platform to build a SAN that supports Sun Solaris, Windows 2003, Red Hat Linux, and IBM AIX 5.3 servers. To ensure high system availability, four IPStor servers are deployed in an active-active failover configuration. MMAA leverages active-active failover capabilities of IPStor for fault tolerance. Should one IPStor appliance or path fail, the other immediately and transparently takes over the workload without impacting processes. When the primary IPStor appliance is back online, failback occurs automatically.