In brief: InMage adds to disaster recovery software

InMage Systems is adding business-event-based recovery and automated information tiering features to its DR-Scout suite of disaster-recovery software, according to an executive of the company. InMage is expected to announce this month that two large storage-equipment manufacturers will bundle InMage's software with their products, says Kumar Malavalli, CEO and co-founder. With the business-event-based recovery feature, users will be able to bookmark a predefined business event, Malavalli says. In the event of a disaster, the system automatically starts the recovery from the selected business event, he says. The feature is scheduled to start shipping in DR-Scout in the first quarter. By the end of next year, InMage plans to introduce a feature that uses a policy engine to enable data to be moved automatically from primary to secondary or tertiary storage, depending on the priority, importance and age of the data, Malavalli says. This would enable users to save on storage costs by allocating only critical data to more expensive and sophisticated storage. DR-Scout is targeted at the midtier market. The average price of an installation that protects about five servers with about 10T bytes of storage attached is $50,000.

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InMage Systems is adding business-event-based recovery and automated information tiering features to its DR-Scout suite of disaster-recovery software, according to an executive of the company. InMage is expected to announce this month that two large storage-equipment manufacturers will bundle InMage's software with their products, says Kumar Malavalli, CEO and co-founder. With the business-event-based recovery feature, users will be able to bookmark a predefined business event, Malavalli says. In the event of a disaster, the system automatically starts the recovery from the selected business event, he says. The feature is scheduled to start shipping in DR-Scout in the first quarter. By the end of next year, InMage plans to introduce a feature that uses a policy engine to enable data to be moved automatically from primary to secondary or tertiary storage, depending on the priority, importance and age of the data, Malavalli says. This would enable users to save on storage costs by allocating only critical data to more expensive and sophisticated storage. DR-Scout is targeted at the midtier market. The average price of an installation that protects about five servers with about 10T bytes of storage attached is $50,000.

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