The Challenge
Data loss and rising cost of application downtime leads to reduced productivity and revenue. The unavailability of critical data negatively impacts company reputation and results in potential loss of customers.

The Solution
StorageCraft ShadowXafe is the next generation data protection solution that brings a comprehensive, SLA-driven management for the complete data protection lifecycle.

ShadowXafe delivers powerful recovery and work-flow optimized for management simplicity. It tightly integrates with StorageCraft Cloud Services, with a single click it provides business continuity of data, network, and application recovery in StorageCraft's Cloud.

Powerful data protection is host-based and/or agent-based, complete with physical and virtual system recovery. The workflow is optimized through a unified lifecycle dashboard that includes policy-based administration, analytical reports, and seamless VMware integration. Optional disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) has orchestrated one-click failover in the cloud, easily recovering the entire infrastructure in case of a site-wide disaster.

ShadowXafe is easy to deploy and manage, ensuring secure data protection, reduced application downtime, and improved productivity.

Flexible recovery provides data recovery to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments. Reliable recovery ensures dependable recovery of entire systems from backup images including OS, applications, settings, and data. The solution provides instant boot recovery for virtual machines within milliseconds.

ShadowXafe’s architecture is designed from the ground up and is a collection of interconnected, scalable, and easily manageable microservices that deliver robust data protection and storage access. It consists of three main components: Data Protection Services, Agents, and OneSystem.

The Data Protection Services deliver storage access and data protection procedures including backup, restore, replication, and storage.

Agents are adapters for protecting physical servers and virtual machines (VMs) to deliver higher SLAs. OneSystem is the management framework that orchestrates and manages the activities within Data Protection Services. The communication protocol that ties this all together is open standard Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC).