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Wednesday, February 18, 2004
Framatome ANP Standardizes on XOsoft's WANSyn for Secure Data Distribution
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XOsoft today announced that Framatome ANP, designer and constructor of nuclear power plants and research reactors, has successfully employed XOsoft’s state-of-the-art WANSync product for real-time analysis and data distribution.
WANSync, which securely synchronizes entire critical
information servers to remote replicas through continuous, real-time
replication, has been deployed to synchronize live inspection and analysis
data between NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers at nuclear sites and
replicas at multiple host locations.
Real-time delivery of massive amounts of analysis data (reaching as many as
400 gigabytes within a four-day period) is crucial for timely identification
of flaws in nuclear site steam generator tubing. Before implementing
XOsoft’s WANSync business continuity solution, Framatome ANP’s Outage
Services Division found it increasingly difficult to transport this data
over fluctuating WAN connections between nuclear sites and central host
locations.
“We were looking for a solution that would enable us to reliably and
securely transport huge amounts of data between nuclear sites and our host
locations over WAN connections in real time,” says Bill George, Senior
Network Engineer with Framatome ANP’s Outage Services Division. “No less
important was the solution’s ability to bridge the gap between Unix and
Windows, to collect data from Unix workstations and allow us to analyze them
in a Windows environment.”
After testing a number of solutions, none of which were up to Framatome
ANP’s speed and data volume requirements, Bill came across XOsoft’s WANSync.
“WANSync worked extremely well right from the start,” he says. “In a field
test at one of our nuclear sites, it effortlessly replicated hundreds of
megabytes to our host location over our WAN. WANSync even allowed us to
reconfigure and fine-tune replication scenarios on the fly, which we found
extremely appealing, as it enabled us to avoid interruptions in our
operations.” He adds, “tree-topology replication also proved to be of great
value, essentially enabling us to achieve load balancing, and reduce our
bandwidth utilization by as much as 40 percent. WANSync provides all the
speed, reliability and cost savings we require.”
“WANSync represents the most advanced WAN-based business continuity and data
distribution platform on the market,” says Leonid Shtilman, Founder and CEO
of XOsoft. “Framatome is an exceptional addition to a growing list of
satisfied WANSync customers, who have chosen our technology to achieve even
greater geographical business coverage, while minimizing costs and bandwidth
requirements.”
Framatome installed WANSync on two NAS servers at a test nuclear site and on
additional NAS servers at several host locations, where real-time data is
required for analysis purposes. WANSync now enables data to flow smoothly
and securely between both Framatome locations. WANSync is also used for load
balancing, mirroring the NAS servers at the host location to servers at two
additional host locations across the United States. WANSync’s tree-topology
replication capability enabled all three host locations to receive real-time
data, while minimizing bandwidth utilization.
The field trial conducted at Framatome’s nuclear site is the first step
towards a broader WANSync deployment to be carried out at as many as 14
different nuclear sites in the near future. Framatome is currently also
testing XOsoft’s Data Rewinder, which provides advanced protection against
data corruptions, and allows corrupted servers to simply be “rewound” to
their most recent consistent state. Once testing is completed, Data Rewinder
will be deployed at numerous Intranet portals serving Framatome’s nuclear
facilities across the U.S. |
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