Moonwalk™ Inc. today announced certification of Syncsort Backup Express with its Moonwalk™ 6.0 software suite, delivering a high-performance, stable, supported and vendor-neutral archive, backup and disaster recovery solution for heterogeneous networks.

By combining the robust enterprise protection of Syncsort Backup Express with the Moonwalk™'s ability to automate and proactively manage the migration, copying and movement of data transparently through the enterprise, customers are ensured that business-critical data is safely protected through each and every stage of its lifecycle in one complete solution that offers flexibility and minimized storage expenditures by offering users their choice of hardware configuration.

"Without locking customers into a particular storage profile in an attempt to increase hardware sales as part of an overall go-to-market strategy, a heterogeneous solution, such as the one we've certified with Syncsort, allows customers to tailor their data protection needs to their own benefit," said Peter Harvey, CEO of Moonwalk™. "We think that Syncsort's highly scalable, heterogeneous and robust backup technology is a perfect complement to our data management software and we're pleased to offer a certified compatible solution to an eager marketplace."

"As a provider of data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, we have a firm belief in bringing to market end-to-end solutions that deliver the ultimate data protection for customers' mission-critical information," said Dan Regan, Senior Vice President of Syncsort. "The combination of Moonwalk™ software with the Syncsort Backup Express solution encompasses best-of-breed backup, archive and DR solutions for heterogeneous networks and provides a critically important - and needed - way for businesses to ensure the availability of data regardless of where it rests within the network.

Syncsort Backup Express is a high-value enterprise data protection solution that enables organizations to dependably meet their disaster recovery and business continuity requirements. Its unique capabilities -- including bare metal recovery in minutes; disk-to-disk backup with archiving to tape; near-instant access to SQL, Exchange, and Oracle images; and easy recovery to any one of multiple points in time -- are fully integrated with a robust enterprise data protection system. The system is easily managed from a single interface and catalog for centralized control of both disk-based and traditional tape-based data protection strategies across heterogeneous operating systems.

Moonwalk™ software delivers data management with metadata-level precision for all information on network storage, servers and clients. It proactively migrates, copies and moves data according to user-defined rules and policies based on criteria such as age, size, file type, file name, file creator and many more granular classification rules. Moonwalk™ operates across and between all major file systems, including Windows, UNIX, Linux and Netware environments, and all primary and secondary storage environments. Its stateless architecture requires no additional overhead and is completely transparent to users and applications, with no introduced points of potential failure to ensuring maximum performance and availability. With Moonwalk™, applying even one simple rule of moving all files one year or older onto secondary storage can result in an immediate halving in primary storage; applying additional rules typically results in significantly higher capacity savings in some cases in the order of 90 percent.