March 18, 2008
ASEMPRA BUSINESS CONTINUITY SERVER™ DELIVERS EXCHANGE CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY FOR TELENAV
Santa Clara, Calif. (March 18, 2008) –
Asempra Technologies, the leading provider of continuous availability solutions for Windows applications
and data, announced today that TeleNav, Inc. has implemented Asempra’s Business Continuity Server
(BCS) to provide continuous availability for its mission critical Exchange environment. Asempra’s
BCS is providing continuously availability and complete data protection for TeleNav’s Microsoft®
Exchange deployment of 250 users and over 250 gigabytes (GB) of data, delivering an Exchange recovery
service level agreement (SLA) measured in seconds.
TeleNav had previously been using traditional tape backup products to protect their Exchange application
and data. Their backup infrastructure was unable to meet TeleNav’s Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and
Recovery Point Objectives (RPO). With TeleNav’s Exchange server essential for e-mail services to
employees in Europe, Asia, and North America, daily tape backups could have impacted Exchange performance.
TeleNav estimated that an Exchange storage failure would have resulted in recovery times exceeding a day.
“As you can imagine, any length of downtime can be challenging for employees” said Simon Ma,
director of IT for TeleNav. Additionally, Ma was very concerned about potentially losing data in between
backups and wanted the capability of recovering to any point in time quickly and easily, something tape
products could not provide.
Ma worked very closely with Asempra to identify the Exchange SLA that would meet TeleNav’s business
goals and objectives. After examining several other alternatives – a new tape system, disk-based snapshot,
virtual tape library products, and an e-mail archiving product, Ma selected the BCS for its rapid recovery
times, capability of recovering to any point in time, continuous data protection capability, and ease of use.
“No other technology or solution we looked at was as compelling as the Business Continuity Server,”
said Ma. “With the BCS continuously protecting our Exchange server, we no longer worry about data loss,
achieving our recovery objectives, or exceeding our IT budget for backup. The BCS’s ability to recover
to any point in time has already helped us recover from an Exchange corruption event in almost no time and
with no interruption to Exchange services.”
Asempra’s BCS solution protects Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and Windows File Server applications and
data through a patented approach that captures and indexes all data events, creating a virtualized data store
that allows instantaneous recovery to any point-in-time. Using Asempra’s virtualized recovery and data
protection technology (Virtual On-Demand Recovery™), Exchange and SQL can be available as fast as 30
seconds after a storage failure. The BCS allows IT administrators to “roll back the clock” so that
applications and their data are immediately available at any point-in-time just as they were before outages
caused by storage failures, human error, virus outbreaks, or even a datacenter fire. The BCS delivers
complete, uncorrupted data at all times, eliminating the need for multiple, costly manual recoveries that
are frequently required when relying on traditional backup and restore technologies.
The BCS combines next-generation storage technologies into an all-in-one solution tailored to mid-market needs.
Real-time continuous data protection, application availability, snapshot, replication, disk-based backup, and
seamless tape backup technologies ensure business data is always available, 24x7. Bringing together multiple
technologies in an easy-to-use solution is dramatically more cost-effective, and easier to manage for mid-size
companies with limited IT resources.
“Asempra is very pleased to be the solution that provides 24x7 availability and data protection for
TeleNav’s essential Exchange e-mail,” said Michael Hughes, vice president of sales at Asempra.
“Small and mid-market companies, like TeleNav, recognize the value of a cost-effective, all-in-one
solution that ensures continuous availability and near-zero data loss for their Windows environment.”
About Asempra Technologies, Inc.
Asempra Technologies is a leading provider of continuous availability solutions for Windows applications and
data. Named as a “Best of Connections 2007” Finalist in October 2007, and “Outstanding Choice”
by ByteandSwitch in September 2007, Asempra’s Business Continuity Server™ enables application availability
and data recovery in seconds or minutes, from any location, at any point-in-time. The BCS solves many critical
concerns of small to medium sized businesses, providing continuous availability, data protection, disaster recovery,
business continuity, and recovery management in one easy to use solution. Tightly integrated with Microsoft Exchange,
SQL and Windows File Server platforms, the BCS allows companies to leverage existing infrastructure and reduce
management complexity while providing near zero data loss. Asempra is headquartered at 3200 Patrick Henry Drive,
Santa Clara, California 95054. For more information, please call 408.215.5800 or visit
www.asempra.com
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About TeleNav Inc.
TeleNav, Inc., a privately-held company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, was the first to launch a cell
phone GPS system in the United States. Deployed by 15 carriers in 21 countries, TeleNav is a global leader in wireless
location-based services (LBS). Currently, the company’s solutions are available in four continents, including
North and South America, Asia and Europe.
TeleNav’s solutions include GPS navigation, Mobile Resource Management (MRM), asset GPS tracking (AVL), social
networking and local search. The company’s flagship product, TeleNav GPS Navigator™, is comparable to in-car
systems found in luxury vehicles, offering a superior experience with functionality, such as automatically-updated
maps and business locations, full color 3D moving maps, traffic alerts and one-click rerouting, location-sharing,
business reviews, speech recognition, Wi-Fi hotspot finder, lowest-price fuel finder and more. TeleNav’s
enterprise application, TeleNav Track, incorporates GPS-enabled tracking, time sheets, wireless forms and navigation.
TeleNav Track is a widely adopted service with over 8,000 customer organizations using it today.
TeleNav products are available on more than 200 wireless devices and run on all major mobile platforms currently
available. TeleNav’s partners include Sprint Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile USA, Alltel, Boost Mobile, Qwest,
SouthernLINC Wireless, Rogers, Bell Mobility, T-Mobile UK, T-Mobile Austria, China Mobile, Vivo Brazil, NII
Holdings, Research In Motion (RIM), Motorola, Samsung, Sanyo, LG, Palm, HTC, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, NAVTEQ,
Tele Atlas, deCarta, INRIX, Qualcomm and SiRF Technology Holdings.
“TeleNav” and the TeleNav logo are registered and unregistered trademarks and/or service marks of
TeleNav, Inc. Unless otherwise noted, all other trademarks, service marks, and logos used in this press release
are the trademarks, service marks or logos of their respective owners.
Contact Information
Julie Parayno and Corey Oiesen
Dovetail Public Relations
Phone: (408) 395-3600
Email: asempra@dovetailpr.com
Michelle Johnson Cobb
Vice President of Outbound Marketing
Phone: (408) 215-5833
Email: mcobb@asempra.com
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