DataGardens’ flagship product, Syntropy, extends conventional virtualization services including virtual machine migration, virtual machine provisioning, failover/fail-back, and backup/recovery, so they can be leveraged across separate data center environments and/or distributed sites. This unique capability enables DataGardens to offer solutions for remote IT provisioning, inter-site resource sharing, business continuity, and multi-site consolidated backup – all of which are administered from a single pane of glass. DataGardens products reduce the cost of IT provisioning and administration, while increasing productivity, utilization, and resiliency.

Syntropy is a software system that can be deployed either on a stand-alone hardware appliance, or as a virtual machine within a 3rd party hypervisor (i.e., a virtualization server). Syntropy does not provide native virtualization but rather bridges between conventional hypervisors (e.g., VMware) and their associated storage resources in multiple distinct sites. Syntropy is operating system and application agnostic. The solution is achieved by embedding one or more DataGardens Syntropy nodes in the network fabric at each site.

DataGardens refers to a network of Syntropy nodes as a “Wide Area Virtualized Enterprise” or WAVE. A WAVE is achieved by deploying one or more Syntropy nodes in the network fabric at each site. DataGardens refers to a network of Syntropy nodes as a “Wide Area Virtualized Enterprise” or WAVE. With a WAVE, an administrator can protect and consolidate core IT administration while having the flexibility to migrate virtual IT resources seamlessly between data center environments as required. From a single pane of glass, the administrator can enable multi-site resource sharing, business continuity, flex services, and global consolidated backup.

On the WAVE, the central administrator provisions a set of “Distributed Virtual Resources” (DVRs). The concept of a DVR is unique to DataGardens. A DVR encapsulates a conventional virtual resource (e.g., a conventional virtual volume, virtual software application, or virtual data volume) and maintains local replicas of it in multiple sites. The DVR allows only one of the replicas to be active at any given time. Other replicas are kept hidden (i.e., the encapsulated virtual resource is maintained in suspended state at those sites). The Syntropy node with the active replica automatically propagates updates to the hidden replicas.

DataGardens allows administrators of multi-site data centers to use the WAVE to extend almost any single-site data management operation across multiple sites while minimizing inter-site data exchange. For example, some applications include:

BENEFITS:

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO):
Reduce your total cost of provisioning, maintaining, and managing multi-site IT services, while increasing IT infrastructure utilization.

Multi-Site Continuous Resource Protection (MCRP):
In addition to providing disaster recovery and business continuity for your data volumes via Continuous Data Protection (CDP), ensures protection and resiliency for your production virtualized resources (e.g., virtual servers, desktops, applications).

Flex Services:
Move beyond traditional disaster recovery (i.e., an active production data center peered with a passive data center housing idle resources) to a flexible IT services model.

Multi-site Resource Sharing:
Enable new models of sharing software and applications across your multi-site infrastructure.

Multi-site Consolidated Backup:
Simplify the challenges of backup/recovery by creating globally consistent, multi-site Point-in-Time (PiT) copies of data and virtual resources at the central data center. Leverage a globally consistent data image at the central site as a source volume for backup operations – eliminating multiple single-site backup operations and enabling simplified consolidated multi-site backup.