AIMstor Overview

AIMstor Overview

  • Simplicity of One

    AIMstor® is a software application that provides the ability to manage and protect all data, from Laptop to Server to Remote Office to Cloud, with a single interface and a single software footprint. Being hardware agnostic, AIMstor runs on any storage platform under Windows or Linux.

    Today's solutions need to do more than simple "backup". AIMstor provides many levels of Data Protection, so you can pick and choose which tool, or combination of tools you want to use. With AIMstor's unified tools, you get benefits that would be impossible with integrated products. Some of your immediate benefits when choosing AIMstor:

    • Up to 10X to 20X LAN/WAN Bandwidth improvement over legacy data protection
    • Up to 95% Capacity Reduction over legacy data protection
    • Improve IT management efficiencies by up to 200% to 400%
    • Optimize Restore times 3X to 100X with Tag-Store-Index of all data
    AIMstor

    AIMstor can do all this, plus, enforce all policies in real-time through the AIMstor's data change awareness.

    Designed to solve many difficult tasks, AIMstor models your Business Processes with unified data management principles.

    Combining numerous operational capabilities, AIMstor provides a truly unified approach to data management of your critical corporate information.

    AIMstor can provide near instant ROI with a solution set that is unified unlike anything else in the world. AIMstor breaks the rules of data management by giving you simplicity, consistency, unified data, and active management for the life of your information.

  • Unified Data Protection and Management

    AIMstor Operations are Drag and Drop icons used in the Workflow User Interface to execute tasks for your data. Operations can be combined within a single policy, or separated into individual policies. Most importantly, they remain flexible, so they can accomadate your own business processes.

    AIMstor Data Operations
    Feature
    Benefit
    Backup
    Next-generation Unified Backup includes Multi-tier Deduplication at Source and Target.
    - Dedupe Backups are completed via schedule using the "Batch" data mover.
    - Live Dedupe Backups are real-time change aware, and utilize the "Continuous" data mover.
    CDP
    Continuous Data Protection, similar to Backup, but with a more granular Recovery Point Objective capable of capturing changes down to the second.
    Replicate
    Real-time Continuous Replication for local or remote sites, with on-demand restore and disaster recovery.
    Version
    File versioning and archive of any data classification issued within a policy.
    Track
    Determine the Who, What, When, Where and How for all data created, generation, with recorded byte-level changes, and file movements.
    Block
    File system level control and enforcement of user activity, ranging from access to file or storage type, to block of specific data classifications.

  • Classify Your Data at the Moment of Creation

    Once AIMstor is in, data gets classified. When you create a policy, AIMstor knows what data needs to be managed or protected. Data can be managed or protected by new policies within seconds.

    AIMstor Data Classifications
    Feature
    Benefit
    Path
    Classify a specific data path on a Source machine
    Storage Type
    Classify Removable Storage, Fixed Disks, or both
    OS Type
    Classify One or Several specific OS types, such as Linux, Windows 2008, Windows 2003, Vista, XP, and more.
    Documents
    Classify Document files by their extension, include or exclude types
    Multimedia
    Classify Multimedia files by their extension, include or exclude types
    Personal Email
    Classify Microsoft Outlook or Express files by extension
    Files
    List specific files to include or exclude
    Owner
    Enable policies based upon file Owner
    User
    Enable policies based upon Active Directory domain User
    Storage Type
    Enable policies based upon Active Directory domain Group
    Age
    Enable policies based upon file Age, or when modified
    Process
    List specific processes to include or exclude
  • Source and Mirror Nodes Master Node Repository Nodes
    Windows
    XP Professional SP2, SP3 (g)
    Vista SP1+ (g) (g)
    Vista SP1+ (64 bit) (g) (g)
    Windows 7 (g) (g)
    Windows 7 (64 bit) (g) (g)
    Windows 2003 R2 SP1+
    Windows 2003 R2 SP1+ (64 bit)
    Windows 2008
    Windows 2008 (64 bit) (e)
    Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit)
    Linux
    Kernel 2.6+ (f)
    Source and Mirror Nodes Master Node Repository Nodes
    Memory 512 MB+ 2 GB+ 4 GB+
    Hard Disk Space 50 MB for AIMstor,
    16 GB for cache    		 50 MB for AIMstor,
    4 GB for logs    		 50 MB for AIMstor,
    16 GB per source
    Repository space
    RAID Disk Not Required Not Required Performance Based RAID
    16 GB per source
    Repository space
    Network Interface 100+ Mb/s 100+ Mb/s 1,000+ Mb/s
    Processor 1 CPU, 1 GHz 2 CPU, 2+ GHz 4 CPU, 2+ GHz
    Suggested OS Any Windows 2003, 2008, Linux Windows 2003, 2008, Linux
    Display Resolution 1024 x 768 1024 x 768 N/A (via Master)
    Software N/A Sun Microsystems Java
    Runtime Environment or above.(a)    		 Sun Microsystems Java
    Runtime Environment or above.(a)
    1. Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 32 bit or greater can be downloaded from www.java.com.
    2. Repository configuration should plan for 16GB of hard disk space for cache per Source Node. See wiki.cofio.com for further information.
    3. When more than one configuration is applied to a single node, the higher specification is required.
    4. Recent updates and patches of OS should be maintained to minimize problems.
    5. When installing Repository on Win 2008 64-bit, we recommend using Microsoft Dynamic Cache Service called Dynacache, available for free via download at Microsoft.
    6. Linux supports all Node Types except Replication Node, which will be available in 2011.
    7. Workstation OS's such as XP and Windows 7 can be used for AIMstor Repository for demo purposes. For production purposes use server based OS's such as Windows 2003, Windows 2008 or Linux. The AIMstor Master can be installed on XP. It can also reside on Vista and Win 7 if the UAC "User Account Control" is turned off.

    When more then one configuration is applied to a single node, higher specification may be needed.