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PowerScale SyncIQ offers powerful, efficient, and easy-to-manage data replication for disaster recovery, business continuity, remote collaboration, disk-to-disk backup, and remote disk archive.
The following figure illustrates the typical SyncIQ architecture—replicating data from a primary to a target PowerScale cluster which can be local or remote. SyncIQ can also use the primary cluster as a target in order to create local replicas.