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March 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Macquarie Hosting, the managed hosting division of Australian telecommunications firm Macquarie Telecom (macquarietelecom.com) announced last week that it had introduced a new virtualized managed disaster recovery service.
Working with Sun Microsystems and AMD, the company says the new platform will be used to deliver disaster recovery services to government and business customers in Australia.
While disaster recovery and business continuity offerings have become a fairly widespread must-have element of managed hosting services in recent years, Macquarie says many business have considered them prohibitively expensive until now - ironically taking a considerable financial risk by not having sufficient backup systems in place.
According to Macquarie, more recent developments in virtualization technology have made it possible to deliver an effective disaster recovery solution at a price that customers can justify. Virtualization, says the company, is key to the delivery of its disaster recovery service.
"The virtualized approach is the smarter way forward in this hunt for zero downtime," says Aidan Tudehope, managing director of hosting at Macquarie Telecom. "With all mission critical applications replicated and running in parallel on virtualized servers, customers can ensure data recovery in minutes and independent fail-over operation for extended periods of time if necessary.”
Macquarie says virtualization eliminates the need for the customer to duplicate its existing hosting infrastructure, which was the cause of most of the expense in a non-virtualized disaster recovery environment.
The remote service will be hosted in Macquarie's facility in Melbourne, and will be linked directly to the company's hosting facility in Sydney via the company's own national IP network.
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