Critical Issue Conner Strong & Buckelew puts a high priority on the need to protect its data and its ability to serve its customers even if a disaster should strike. But more than just being able to recover data and applications, it needs to be able to do so quickly to safeguard business continuity and to ensure customer satisfaction. Business Challenge Conner Strong & Buckelew used to protect its data using an asynchronous, hardware-based SAN-to-SAN mirroring technology, but that solution was inadequate. To restore data, an operator had to stop the replication processes, start the new server, present the LUN to the server, and normalize the data. This could take as long as four hours, which was unacceptable. Thus, one of the company’s challenges was to find a way to significa

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