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Aster Data

San Carlos, Calif. – September 22, 2009 – Aster Data, a proven leader dedicated to providing the best data analytics and management platform for ‘Big Data’ applications, today announced that Aster nCluster and nCluster Cloud Edition leverages its ”Always Parallel” architecture to deliver high performance online backup and restore capabilities without system or application downtime. Aster nCluster Online Backup, included as a key feature in all editions of the nCluster database, is available today.

Aster nCluster Online Backup is based on a unique architecture that uses a distributed compute cluster of dedicated backup servers, called a Backup Cluster. The Backup Cluster architecture uses massive parallelization for providing backup and restore speeds required at the petabyte scale while the system stays online to process queries and load fresh data. For disaster recovery, a Backup Cluster can reside in a location that is geographically separated from the primary nCluster database, or in the cloud through services like Amazon EC2 or AppNexus.

“With Aster nCluster’s Online Backup we can take our entire cluster full and incremental back-ups while the nCluster is running, data being loaded, queries being executed and the best part, it is also highly scalable for optimal backup performance,” said Lenin Gali, Director of Business Intelligence, ShareThis.“We can back up 7TB data, and we can do it under 4 hours with distributed backup cluster on AWS.  The process took less than half the time we had expected.”

An interesting article talking about Aster Data’s solution within the online backup world, something I’ve been talking about with colleagues with regards to would an enterprise ever buy-in a backup and restore solution article that I’m writing, in the meantime, I’m off to read up more on Aster’s offerings.

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