(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed services provider Simply Continuous (www.simplycontinuous.net) announced on Tuesday it has launched Data Recovery Vault and AppAlive services, the company’s new flagship disaster recovery services.
Using these services, small and medium businesses can protect and manage 1 to 100TB of data, backed by a service-level guarantee.
Data Recovery Vault, which is designed for data, and AppAlive, which is designed for applications, are components in the company’s Universal Recovery Platform.
The platform integrates deduplication technology with remote storage and recovery services in the Simply Continuous data center.
Data Recovery Vault and AppAlive are able to integrate into any existing backup infrastructure and customers can access a web portal to monitor, browse or restore their digital assets.
The Simply Continuous patent-pending Universal Recovery Platform integrates deduplication, network acceleration, secure transmission, off-site monitoring and reliable, simple recovery processes.
According to the company, the cost of the services is typically less than the combination tape backup-offsite storage that the most companies currently use.
“As company data sets grow past one terabyte there are few online options for offsite data protection and, more importantly, recovery – all of which have been more expensive than tape, until now,” says Tom Frangione, Simply Continuous co-founder and CEO. “We knew from the very beginning that we needed to architect a service that could keep pace with spiraling data growth without adding significant costs for our customers.”
Simply Continuous cites wireless communications systems provider Vocera and business process management software firm Savvion as companies who recently switched from tape backup and offsite storage to Simply Continuous’ new services.
The services automatically and continuously replicate data and virtualized application images.
Data Recovery Vault service incorporates more than 1,300 specialized sensors to monitor every point in the service infrastructure so data sets are ready to be recovered in the event of a failure.
Customers can access real-time status of their data, as well as log and monitor issues through the Simply Continuous online portal. The data can also be recovered in four different, independent modes.
AppAlive’s virtual service lets companies protect and recover their business-critical applications by capturing current images of applications, securely storing them and provides companies with a hosted recovery environment for their virtualized applications.
Simply Continuous is backed by $10 million in funding from Greylock Partners and led by an executive team comprised of BEA Systems, Comdisco/Sungard, Mendocino Software, Onaro/NetApp, StorageWay and Telephia.
