Fujitsu achieves intercontinental data mirroring

Stan Beer
Thursday, 06 April 2006 18:11

Business IT - Technology

Fujitsu Computer Systems will demonstrate storage based technology that enables the company to replicate data between Colorado Springs, US, and Tokyo, Japan, using storage networking vendor McDATA's SAN Routers.
The demonstration will take place this week during Storage Networking World and is the first time data has been mirrored between two Fujitsu storage arrays on separate continents.

"This ability to mirror data between continents addresses the needs of our customers to mirror data centres that are 10,000 or 10 miles apart," said Richard McCormack, senior vice president of marketing, Fujitsu. "We chose McDATA SAN routers for this ground breaking project because of the company's industry leadership and experience using routers and SAN extension products to replicate data over long distances."

"McDATA's leadership role in the data networking marketplace put us in a unique position to be a part of Fujitsu's innovative breakthrough," said Todd Oseth, COO, McDATA. "McDATA's SAN router technology allows customers to cost-effectively mirror data over thousands of miles and demonstrates how we mobilise the world's data."

Fujitsu built the data mirroring solution by leveraging the McDATA routers' broad multi-protocol interoperability spanning both Fibre Channel and IP networks. The entire trip spans more than 20,000 circuit miles, with a claimed 200-millisecond delay, creating fast replication of data.

McDATA's SAN routers also provide data compression to lower WAN bandwidth requirements and Fast Write technology to maximise throughput across long distances.