Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning are vital requirements for any business. Driven by mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley , DR/BC has become a critical agenda item for IT Executives.

For many corporations, remote storage is a key ingredient in their disaster recovery and business continuity planning. In addition to the business need, in many industries, such as banking and health care, remote storage may soon be a regulatory requirement . For example, qualifying financial enterprises may have to maintain an alternative backup site that is 200 - 300 miles away from the primary site, according to the Federal Reserve and SEC. Click here to learn more about Regulatory Requirements .

Establishing a remote storage operation, however, creates many challenges, particularly in the case of a synchronous remote storage solution. Depending on distance, transmission latency could have a significant impact on various applications. Errors on the network are also a concern. These issues, if not addressed, can result in lost data and lost business to a corporation. The bottom line is you must test your remote storage solution before deployment.

To meet this need of validating Data Center Backup solutions in a lab environment before going live, many corporations are using Network Emulators from Anue Systems. Anue's Network Emulators simulate real world delays and errors that occur as data is transmitted over long distances.

Delays and errors on a storage network due to distance, congestion and other factors create problems that need to be identified and addressed before any remote storage or disaster recovery solution is complete. There is no easier, more cost effective way to simulate delays and impairments over Fibre Channel, IP and/or SONET networks than with Anue Network Emulators .