Independent software vendor DataCore which specializes in storage control and storage management solutions has announced new products which links two SANmelody IP storage area networks (SAN) together for business continuity and disaster recovery.

The business continuity (BC) package from DataCore is said to provide automatic failover between two local SANmelody systems, one of which synchronously mirrors the other. Each of these can have up to 3TB of capacity.

The disaster recovery (DR) package has two separated SANmelody sites with asynchronous IP mirroring which provide long-distance replication of data. If the production site goes down then server access is switched to the DR site.

DataCore claims that the two packages fill the gap between low-end system replicators and high-end enterprise class storage array and SAN-based DR systems.