Attack of the Windows strikereplicants/strike replication vendors
Windows file migration startup AutoVirt has debuted its AutoClone Windows file replication software, joining Double-Take and Neverfail in protecting Windows by copying changed data to a remote server.
AutoVirt is a Nashua, New Hampshire, start-up, founded in 2007, to provide file migration software for Windows servers. It uses an out-of-band appliance-type approach, using either a physical or virtual server, and operates via a file virtualisation approach.
The company has now extended this technology to provide file replication services as a form of continuous protection. Whereas other replication products operate at the disk write level AutoClone works at a file level and can replicate many files simutaneously.
Josh Klein, AutoVirt's CEO, says: "It dramatically increases the speed of replication via its ability to process files in parallel versus one-by-one." The company claims up to 30 files can be replicated at once with an up to 20X increase in replication speed. However no direct comparison is made with any other replication product and disk block-level-based replication technology, operating below the file level, could be said to be replicating many files at once.
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