A diagram of the architecture behind FORTRUST's new AppSafe virtualized disaster recovery solution, taken from the company's website.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator and colocation provider FORTRUST Data Center (www.fortrustdatacenter.com) announced on Thursday that it had introduced its new AppSafe, a virtualized disaster recovery product.
FORTRUST says virtualization – as in most use cases – speeds the disaster recovery process, while minimizing cost and time investments associated with space and hardware sourcing.
The company says the new service is a managed disaster recovery service, and provides a “safe, affordable and flexible” solution for ensuring rapid recovery of critical applications in the event of outages or disasters.
According to FORTRUST, the service is designed in part to provide disaster recovery at a price point that will make it accessible to small and medium-sized businesses.
“With this new service, businesses will have the option to remotely execute a full server recovery or achieve immediate failover using a high-availability solution,” says Rob McClary, vice president of FORTRUST, quoted in the company’s press release. “The key benefit for SMBs is affordable disaster recovery with no previous hardware investment.”
The release describes AppSafe as “leveraging the latest virtualization technologies,” though it doesn’t name the specific components. Through the service, applications and data are replicated to a virtual environment, to which end users are re-routed in the event of an outage.
A downloadable PDF of information on the AppSafe product is downloadable from a landing page on the company’s website. According to the material, the product is available in three bundles, starting at $250 per month.
FORTRUST announced in June that it had launched a remote backup service in partnership with Incentra.
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