Using a rack-mountable Thin Capture appliance, Xand has expanded its offerings to hosting customers, enabling them to completely clone a production environment, preserving the entire production networking configuration, application stack and data-set.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Augmenting its managed hosting services, Xand (www.xand.com) has partnered with data center software provider Kubisys (www.kubisys.com) to offer its “Thin Capture” technology, which gives organizations the ability to quickly and easily create clones of their production environment for software testing.
According to Xand’s Thursday announcement, Xand will be using a rack-mountable Thin Capture appliance to expand its offerings to hosting customers. Thin Capture provides complete cloning of a production environment in just 15 minutes, preserving the entire production networking configuration, application stack and data-set.
“The Kubisys Thin Capture appliance will help us provide tremendous value to our customers,” Xand partner alliances director Aarti Comstock said in a statement. “Kubisys Thin Capture offers a truly innovative way for streamlining change management processes, testing, and QA, by allowing our team to quickly deploy replicas of production and run what-if-scenarios for our clients, saving them both time and money.”
Point-in-time cloning will be an addition to Xand’s comprehensive suite of managed hosting solutions for businesses, including application and server hosting, security, data storage, systems engineering, network operations, Internet connectivity, and business continuity office suites, and now.
“Kubisys is very pleased to partner with Xand to utilize our innovative production system fast cloning solution,” Kubisys chief executive officer Vasken Setrakian said in a statement. “Xand’s expertise in data center infrastructure and operations, now including Thin Capture, will allow them to expand their solution offerings. We look forward to working together to significantly improve the software testing and deployment capabilities of Xand’s many customers.”
Xand maintains a 30,000-square-foot data center at its headquarters 30 miles north of Manhattan, as well as space at several locations at the major carrier hotels, each connected by a diversely routed, privately owned and operated fiber-optic backbone.
