The Advanced Recovery & Continuity Appliance (ARCA) provides the speed and reliability of enterprise-class business continuity and recovery solutions…without the enterprise-class price. It’s the perfect choice for protecting mid-sized businesses of 100 – 1,000 employees.

The ARCA can be a lifesaver if there is a catastrophic server failure. But what about the day-to-day issues that have you scouring disk and tape backups for a deleted file? With ARCA, time spent goes from days and hours to minutes and seconds, no matter the function.

Quick Standby Server
When a disaster happens, the ARCA enables the rapid creation of a virtual server to provide recovery time objectives as short as five minutes. This quick failover allows key business functions to remain operational while diagnosing the problem and determining the next course of action in restoring a physical server.

Bare Metal Restore
Unfortunately for most companies, it is not economically prudent to have duplicate hardware on standby in case of a server failure. That’s why the ARCA is equipped to do a bare metal restore to any available hardware configuration, giving you more options in times of crisis.

File & Database Recovery
For file and database recovery, the ARCA brings simplicity, speed and reliability to an often painful task. By taking 5 minute snap shots of each server, ARCA eliminates the time-wasting tasks of tape recovery with the added protection against corrupted open files or databases that block level replication provides.

Mailbox & Message Restore
Email has become the lifeblood of the business world, and, with the ARCA, you can keep messages flowing throughout your company. With short recovery times and frequent recovery points, setbacks are fewer and employees are able to stay connected and productive, whether you’re facing the failure of an Exchange server or just a mistakenly deleted email.

Virtual Machine Testing
The ARCA also provides easy-to-use testing capabilities, so that with a few clicks of a mouse, a virtual machine can be created to prove the effectiveness of your business continuity strategy. Testing also enables companies to meet compliance requirements without the hassles of other backup solutions.

Virtual Server Migration Bridge
When you need to migrate physical servers, the ARCA allows you to virtualize the old server and then perform a bare metal restore on the new hardware. This helps eliminate service outages, end user downtime and the time spent configuring new hardware.

Keep Problems from Becoming Disasters
The ARCA is a network-attached storage device that comes preloaded with all the storage, recovery and virtualization software it needs to protect your business. It’s a perfect complement to existing tape backups because of its ability to provide near-term, near-line recovery, from a single file, database or mail message, up to a full production server, in minutes. When compared to other backup or storage solutions, the ARCA offers a unique set of features that set it apart:

Block Level Transfer for More Efficient, Reliable Backups
5 Minute Incremental Snapshots for More Frequent Recovery Point Objectives
Total Server Backup Preserves OS and Applications, not just Data
Automatic and Non-Disruptive with No Backup Windows Needed

The ARCA meets the RPO standards of higher priced continuity solutions by storing 48 hours of backups at 5-minute intervals, 14 daily backups, 5 weekly backups and monthly backups forever!.

Technology that Fits, Service that Works
While the ARCA is a powerful technology solution on its own, it is made even stronger by the services offered by the Streamline division of SSI: