Consonus and Asigra launch ‘Virtual Business Continuity’ services

Asigra Inc and Consonus have announced a partnership to provide Consonus Virtual Business Continuity (VBC) services. A national data center, IT managed services and infrastructure solutions provider, Consonus now provides an enterprise-class VBC managed service that uses the Asigra Televaulting Information Recovery Management services platform as a key component of the overall solution.

The Consonus Virtual Business Continuity service is a turnkey, pay-as-you-go information recovery offering that incorporates BC and DR consulting, Tier IV data center capabilities, data protection services, recovery infrastructure (virtual or dedicated), recovery mode access, and a comprehensive methodology to ensure that data and applications are protected and available in the event of a disaster. Consonus VBC services provide proactive assurance against application downtime and data loss for continuous business operations. The initial VBC offering is focused on Microsoft Exchange with similar capabilities for other applications on the Consonus VBC roadmap.

Advantages of the Consonus Virtual Business Continuity service include:

* Hot standby alternate computing resources
- Recovery servers are allocated from an active VMware-based virtual infrastructure
- Recovery infrastructure is pre-built and operational, minimizing hardware issues

* Operating environment recovery
- Consonus improves recovery time using a proven methodology to capture and restore the operating state of production servers

* Recovery staff
- Consonus has the data center operations and engineering resources to fully execute the recovery process
- Minimizes the need to send IT staff to the recovery site, an important factor considering company IT staff may not be available in an actual disaster

"Consonus is excited to bring our VBC service to the mid-tier market. This provides mid-tier customers with a comprehensive, turn-key, cost effective business continuity solution where there had been a vacancy in this segment of the market previously,” said Geoff Sinn, vice president of managed services for Consonus Technologies. “We are using Asigra Televaulting for this offering because of the breadth of its backup and recovery features for virtual services as well as the software’s archiving and global data de-duplication capabilities.”

www.consonus.com
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•Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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