(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed IT infrastructure services provider Terremark Worldwide (www.terremark.com) has added cloud-enabled disaster recovery services to its portfolio of virtualized services, providing fully secure, pre-provisioned computing and network capacity with advanced data replication and fully managed data center failover.
According to its Thursday announcement, Terremark’s Virtualized Disaster Recovery solution provides customers with proven solutions that leverage the company’s enterprise-class cloud computing platform and expertise to deliver reliable, cost-effective managed disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, federal agencies.
“Our cloud-based disaster recovery offering is more than just a remote-replication solution; it is a complete cloud-based site redirection service that incorporates the enterprise-class services necessary to run IT operations securely in the event of a disaster declaration,” Terremark advanced data solutions senior vice president Tom Mays said in a statement. “Terremark’s physical and information security, trusted personnel, proven solution framework and industry-leading connectivity to global networks make the service a DR/COOP solution our customers can trust when a disaster strikes.”
Based on NetApp (www.netapp.com) storage and VMware vSphere (www.vmware.com/vsphere) technologies, Terremark’s Virtualized Disaster Recovery offers a diverse set of reliable options with array-based, host-based, and application-based replication options, support for physical or virtual source servers, and is suitable for the most basic customer environments to the most sophisticated.
On-demand managed security services like intrusion detection, log aggregation, firewall services, and on-demand managed backup services protect customer applications and data at similar or higher levels of security than required in their production environments, according to NetApp solutions marketing vice president Patrick Rogers.
“[S]ervices based on proven technologies like Terremark’s cloud-based offering present an ideal solution,” Rogers said in a statement. “With NetApp’s industry-leading storage platform acting as a critical component for its offering, we believe Terremark’s cloud-enabled disaster recovery solution will quickly become a solution of choice for enterprises and Federal agencies.”
Virtualized Disaster Recovery supports a variety of operating systems, enterprise applications and databases, providing customers protection for their business-critical environments without the cost or complexity of server, networking, and facility infrastructures maintenance at a secondary site.
Energy services company, ShawCor (www.shawcor.com) is already using Virtualized Disaster Recovery to reduce risk, as well as cut overall consulting and implementation costs. In addition to on-demand scalability, Terremark’s solution lets ShawCor dynamically add capacity above its baseline requirements to meet its real-time needs.
“With operations that span seven divisions around the world, the consistent availability of our core applications are fundamentally critical to the success of our company,” ShawCor IT manager Paul Gibson said in a statement. “By utilizing the cost-effective, cloud-based disaster recovery solution Terremark offers, we were able to replace a large capital expense with an affordable and predictable recurring charge while maximizing the uptime for our mission-critical systems. Terremark’s solution provides full recovery capabilities in 15 minutes, which we have successfully tested from our Houston data center to the NAP of the Americas.”
