Dell purchased Appassure early this year and came up with Dell AppAssure 5 as the latest version with a name change from Replay to Dell Appassure. The one thing which would make it a preferred choice among other products in the same category is “Live Recovery“.
Live recovery empowers you to access the mission critical applications and data instantly while rest of the data is being recovered. What it means is, lets suppose somehow everything on your server or data store is lost. If you have had Appassure protection, you would be able to access all your data in minutes using this DR(Disaster recovery) solution. Now, you have access to 2 TB of data but it would take some time to copy it over to a new location since all the data is compressed and stored in its own patented container format. What if you need immediate access to your project files you were working on? Well, all you have to do is to start the recovery process and AppAssure will first show you the whole directory structure almost instantly and will start copying the actual data in the background. You can then navigate your way to the folder or the files you want and copy it to another location or launch it if its an executable file. AppAssure will recover that file/folder first and keep recovering the rest of the data in the background. You can very well imagine how useful this could prove to be in a situation like that.
I was so impressed with it that I registered myself on http://license.appassure.com and downloaded a trial to try my hands on it. I will add more articles regarding installation and implementation of AppAssure in coming days.
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