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http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=8792&pagtype=all

EMC has bought Indigo Stone, a UK firm specialising in bare metal recovery and migration of Windows and Linux servers.

Indigo Stone’s HomeBase products provides hardware-independent recovery and migration of Windows and Unix/Linux servers. The acquisition took place in March but there has been no announcement about it from either privately-held Indigo Stone or EMC.

Indigo Stone’s technology is based on a small Server Agent, loaded on each server which runs on a scheduled basis (normally just prior to a backup or replication of the data set) and captures all elements of the server stack from internal and peripheral hardware, through OS settings, to application and storage configuration settings creating a very small, encrypted profile or image down to the bare metal. The profiles are stored on a separate system and used to recover failed servers or migrate them to different hardware.

This looks very cool, and adds to the existing products and solutions under the EMC umbrella of companies, it does sound very good, it seems to create images of the box to aid the backup/restore process, anything to add value to Legato or VMWare has to be a good thing, check it out…

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