GLASGOW, Scotland, October 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Cloud computing company iomart (AIM:
IOM) has launched a disaster recovery service, providing a turn-key
solution for protecting virtual machines (VMs).
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The service, based on EMC® RecoverPoint
for Virtual Machines, resolves the traditionally complex issue of
protecting data stored in virtualized environments, enabling
synchronous and asynchronous protection and allowing any Point in
Time recovery.
Organizations are increasingly moving their digital workloads to
virtualized environments in order to achieve business efficiencies
- but protecting and restoring individual files stored on virtual
machines can be more complex than in traditional systems. As
payroll systems, accounting programs, CRM systems, stock management
and employee records transition to VMs, organizations put
themselves at great risk if they fail to protect that data.
iomart provides businesses with a turn-key solution for
protecting VM data, enabling them to continue to run business
workloads on their premises, while protecting data in the cloud.
Thus, they can benefit from security and agility, as they try to
reduce the cost and complexity of such solutions.
iomart can even offer a complete solution where businesses can
realise the benefits of virtualization through its own hosted
compute-as-a-service offering, and then protect that virtualized
data with the trusted EMC RecoverPoint-based solution.
"It's critical when planning disaster recovery that data copies
are stored remotely, so cloud solutions have a natural advantage -
especially for businesses that have only one site," explains
Bill Strain, CTO of iomart. "We
wanted to provide a disaster recovery to the cloud solution that
was simple to implement, allowed businesses to protect emerging
workloads and was proven in the marketplace. EMC RecoverPoint for
VMs allowed us to easily enhance our other cloud services with a
solution that did just that."
iomart chose RecoverPoint for VMs, because it is cost-effective,
easy to use, and can be integrated simply with iomart's offerings.
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines was an optimal solution of
choice, because of the ability to provide best in class Recovery
Point Objectives (RPO) and enable fast recovery of virtual
machines. Flexibility of architecture and the robust solution
enhance the offering. EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines was
selected as the platform of choice to deliver Disaster Recovery as
a Service.
Peter Smails, VP Data Protection
Marketing at EMC, says, "EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is a
data replication solution, based on proven RecoverPoint technology
that customers have trusted to protect their mission critical data.
The solution empowers Service Providers such as iomart to offer
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) in the cloud."
NOTES TO EDITORS
EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables replication with
Continuous Data Protection for recovery at any point in time. EMC
RecoverPoint for VMs supports single VM granularity and replicates
VMs over any distance, sync or async. It is a hypervisor-based,
software only data protection solution fully integrated with VMware
and built on the proven technology of RecoverPoint. RecoverPoint
for VMs supports orchestration and automation capabilities that
make disaster recover simple and fast.
About iomart
Award-winning cloud company iomart Group PLC (AIM: IOM)
enables businesses and organisations to operate their online data
and IT environments safely and securely. Headquartered
in Glasgow, Scotland,
iomart partners with leading vendors such as VMware, Amazon, EMC,
Microsoft, Asigra, Arbor and Dell to offer customers a centrally
managed, controlled and completely agnostic set of hybrid, private
and public cloud platforms. By owning a global network and
datacenter infrastructure, iomart can support any
customer who wishes to move seamlessly between any and all of these
platforms with a consultative level of knowledge and expertise,
delivering cloud services to meet exact business needs. For more
information visit http://www.iomart.com
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