The InMage Systems architecture is based on a set of fundamental design principles that provide for efficient, highly-scalable processing in the most demanding environments. Key design principles include:

• Support for near-zero RPO and RTO requirements
• Support for heterogeneous storage infrastructure (DAS, SAN and NAS) and host operating
• Integrated and comprehensive support for Near-Line and Disaster Recovery protection policies
• Elimination of backup windows
• Extremely low impact to production environments compared to other vendors' approaches
• Optimization of secondary storage use, to provide fastest recovery without any additional compression or loss of performance
• Leveraging of existing network infrastructure
• Usage of low-cost TCP/IP-based transport for remote replication
• Scalability to handle the needs of today's distributed environment
• Centralized management of local and remote data protection policies

The suite comprises two types of components: host-agents and control servers. Host Agents include DR-Scout VX for volume-level continuous data protection and DR-Scout FX for scheduled file-level protection. Each has a small footprint on the host, and only moves byte-level differences based on data changes. DR-Scout CX is the Control and Media Server that provides for centralized management and offload of CPU-intensive operations necessary for efficient data protection. It includes a CDP/DR modeler to help IT accurately provision secondary disk storage and bandwidth. The diagram below shows a typical deployment of DR-Scout in an enterprise datacenter, providing quick operational restore via CDP for outages of even one day or more, and efficient bandwidth utilization for longer-term Disaster Recovery and Remote Replication to a secondary site.