Recently, Information2 officially released its data backup and recovery management software. After rigorous research and development, as well as iterative testing in large financial institutions, the new backup products (i2Backup, i2VP, i2CDM, etc.) have undergone a comprehensive upgrade in performance, functionality, and user experience, providing a brand-new, efficient, and secure experience for enterprise data backup.

Revolutionary Architecture Upgrade for Backup Management

The new backup products adopt a cutting-edge technical architecture, enabling unified scheduling and monitoring of all backup system tasks. With features such as cross-domain replication and unified management of multiple backup domains, enterprises can effortlessly manage backups in large data centers. Whether it’s files, objects, databases, big data, entire machines, or cloud/virtualized environments, the backup products offer comprehensive backup support. 

Extreme D2T Backup Performance for Enhanced Efficiency

In addition to excellent D2D (disk-to-disk) performance, the new backup products have achieved remarkable improvements in D2T (disk-to-tape) backup performance. By optimizing backup algorithms and transmission mechanisms, the system significantly enhances backup speed and efficiency, thereby shortening backup windows and reducing the impact on production systems. Furthermore, the system supports various backup media types, including disk storage, object storage, NAS storage, tape libraries, etc., providing enterprises with flexible and diverse backup options.

LAN-Free Backup Without Disk Mounting for Simplified Operations

The new backup products support LAN-Free backup functionality without the need for disk mounting. This feature utilizes the SAN (Storage Area Network) as the backup transmission network, eliminating the need for clients to mount disks during the backup process, thereby avoiding additional risks and complexities associated with disk mounting. Additionally, the system supports both iSCSI or FC (Fiber Channel) protocols, further enhancing backup flexibility and reliability.

NBU Policy Migration and Data Migration to Reduce Costs

To meet enterprises’ needs for migrating existing backup systems, the new backup products support NBU policy migration and data migration functionality. This means enterprises can seamlessly migrate their existing NBU backup policies and data to the Information2 backup system without reconfiguring backup rules and tasks. This feature significantly reduces the costs and risks associated with migrating backup systems while preserving the integrity of enterprises’ original backup policies and data.

Centralized Management of Backup Sets and Breakthroughs in Heterogeneous Storage Replication

The new backup products support centralized management of backup sets, with multi-condition search capabilities for backup set queries. They display the total data size as the sum of all backup set sizes and support extending backup set expiration times, immediately expiring backup sets (deletion), manual replication of backup sets, validation of backup set validity, forced cleanup of backup set records, and other operations.

Additionally, the products boast leading heterogeneous storage replication capabilities, supporting the replication of backup set data from local disks to tape libraries or from object storage to local disks.

Intelligent Data Deduplication Technology for Significant Storage Cost Reductions

The new backup products achieve significant improvements in storage efficiency through advanced intelligent data deduplication technology. This technology identifies and deletes duplicate data blocks, greatly reducing the redundancy of backup data and lowering storage costs. The products also support source-side deduplication and target-side deduplication, as well as fixed-length and dynamically variable-length block deduplication, further enhancing storage efficiency.

Data Security and Compliance (Anti-Ransomware)

The new backup products utilize kernel-level immutable storage technology combined with strict access control mechanisms and enhanced data deletion permission management to ensure that backup data has high security and immutability at the storage level. The tamper-resistant drive design is difficult to uninstall, and backup data cannot be deleted arbitrarily, effectively guarding against internal and external malicious tampering or deletion. This not only meets data compliance requirements but also ensures data security and rapid business recovery in the event of attacks such as ransomware, minimizing losses.

Autonomous and Controllable Backup Systems

In today’s increasingly complex and volatile international environment, strengthening local technological innovation capabilities and autonomy has become a core national strategy. Information2 backup products have achieved autonomous and controllable core competitiveness through continuous technological research and development and upgrades. In domestic environments, they can meet the upgrade and replacement needs of backup software for government, finance, transportation, energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and other sectors, realizing autonomous and controllable data backup.

A skyscraper starts from the ground! The data backup and recovery software is an important milestone for Information2 in “disaster recovery + backup” development strategy. Facing significant demand areas such as government and finance, with the accelerated construction of the information and innovation system, Information2‘s new backup products will leverage their outstanding performance and stability to help customers upgrade and replace their backup software.