InMage was a computer software company based in the US and India. It marketed a product line called Scout that used continuous data protection (CDP) for

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and replication. Scout consisted of two product lines: the host-offload line, which uses a software agent on the protected servers, and the fabric line, which uses an agent on the

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switch fabric. The software protects at the volume or block level, tracking all write changes. It allows for local or remote protection policies. The first version of the product was released in 2002.

Product details

Scout features a capacity optimized CDP repository. The continuous approach allows for near zero backup windows, any point in time restores, second level RPOs, both within the datacenter and across datacenters. The target volume is kept updated either

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ly based on the product line. The retention logs allow for any point in time recovery to the user specified retention window. Scout also features application failover support in a disaster recovery. The 6.2 release of the Scout supported on

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among others. The 6.2 release series supports both clustered and non clustered operation. Scout integrates with traditional tape backup software to enable longer term retention on tape. Scout integrates with Microsoft's VSS APIs for SQL, Exchange, Hyper-V consistent snapshots. It also integrates with Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and Postgresql consistency APIs.

Company

InMage was founded in 2001 by Dr. Murali Rajagopal and Kumar Malvalli as SV Systems. Microsoft Corporation acquired InMage in 2014.

References

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