Recoverpoint vs Actifio

Hi,

Can you describe in more detail the problem your customer is trying to solve, and how Actifio is proposed to address it?

Is this a 3 site solution ? Is the distance between the two primary sites within VPLEX sync limits (up to 5ms roundtrip latency)?

Best,

Boaz

Hi Boaz ;

Thanks for the reply.

Actually the current situation I am competing with Actifio;

I am attaching attached solution .

Our customer currently has VNX 5300 and I am offering additional two more VNX 5200 One of them will do CDP with VNX 5300 and CRR to other VNX 5200 .

This is the first time that I compete with Actifio that's why I need to know a bit more technical weak points of Actifio.

Thanks

Hi,

While I do not see the attachment, it is worthwhile to note that RecoverPoint and Actifio address very different objectives. RecoverPoint addresses the need to minimize RPO and assumes the customer goal is to resume operations as quickly as possible. RecoverPoint provides the unique ability to go back to any point in time while utilizing a constant level of storage consumption .

RecoverPoint by design maintains a symmetrical infrastructure on the production and DR sites to enable picking up operations on the DR site with no delay, and failing back with minimal disruption.

Actifio on the other hand is designed to minimize storage consumption. It does not include the ready-for production LUNs on the DR site. Further it is not designed to provide any point in time recovery.

Some questions you may wish to probe with your customer are:

• Does Actifio support Any Point in Time recovery or only scheduled snaps with limited points in time?
• What happens during a disaster? How easy is it to resume operations on the surviving site - do you have the DR storage allocated to support the applications or do you need to somehow migrate the data onto these LUNS?
• How easy is it to fail back? Can you use the same configuration settings for bi-directional replication so that you can continue operations on the recovery site while populating the production LUNS to be ready for failback?
• What happens in Sync Replication when the network misbehaves? Can Actifio dynamically switch between the preferred Sync mode to Async mode?
• In a disaster scenario, what are the performance characteristics of the Actifio system compared to a dedicated VNX 5200 system?
• How does Actifio protect and validate the deduplicated data on their disk pool?  Do they  perform checkpoints or any kind of integrity check?  What if a block gets corrupted?
• What does their support organization look like?

Regards,

Boaz