'Back in 60 minutes' hosted disaster recovery service launched for UK SMEs

FalconStor Software has partnered with Atlanta Technology to deliver a new hosted disaster recovery service for small and medium-sized businesses. Atlanta’s hosted disaster recovery service replicates data out of a customer site and into a remote data centre and offers a ‘back in 60 minutes’ service level agreement.

Atlanta’s service employs the proven capabilities of FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) to ensure secure, reliable data replication. Integration with application-aware snapshot agents ensures that application data is replicated and backed up accurately. Use of the FalconStor CDP means that Atlanta’s solution offers the following competitive advantages:

- Time-based retention policy coupled with on-demand/event-driven bookmarks to facilitate rapid recovery
- Application-awareness to allow the user to restore the data with 100 percent transactional integrity
- Reverse journaling mechanism that provides immediate access to a recent system image
- Flexible configuration (host, switch or appliance-based) that facilitates rapid deployment
- Seamless integration with third-party backup software and VTL to ensure greatest possible return on investment.

Simon Kelson, managing director, at Atlanta Technology, said: “We felt there was a gap in the market to provide an affordable and highly effective disaster recovery solution for small and medium businesses. FalconStor Software has provided the technology to enable this service and bring fast recovery times that mean businesses can continue to operate in the face of a disaster event.”

In Atlanta’s solution, disaster protection is provided through the continuous replication of customer data via TCP/IP or FC to two tier one data centres: a primary location operated by Equinix and, from there, to a second location operated by Interxion.

Replication is at volume level, ensuring that if there is a failure then the volume can be rapidly mounted as a virtual server, with data accessible by the customer within 60 minutes of invocation via a secure connection from any internet-connected device. For customers, this constitutes a near-high availability solution at an affordable price.

www.atlantatechnology.co.uk/disasterrecovery

•Date: 11th July 2008• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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