Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure provider VMware today unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery, a new cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) service that provides a continuously available recovery site for VMware virtualised data centres.
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery is simple to set up, can be self-managed, and is a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional DR solutions, the vendor says, adding that the service is, however, available immediately in all five vCloud Hybrid Service data centres in the US and UK. The company is still to make the solution available in SA.
Built on vSphere, VMware vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery continuously replicates virtual machines to a virtual data centre within vCloud Hybrid Service, with a recovery point objective (RPO) of up to 15 minutes, from just $835 a month including 1TB of storage and standby cloud capacity, says VMware.
"Everyone wants enterprise-class disaster recovery, but without the complexity and cost of traditional DR," says Jerry Sanchez, VP of hosting operations at Planview.
"We know how to administer vSphere, so the simplicity and familiarity of administering vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery is just as easy, making this service a natural fit for us. Typically, DR services require expensive professional services to install and maintain. With the VMware solution, the data and applications are simply mirrored in vCloud Hybrid Service, ready to go whenever trouble strikes, and with the benefits of a cloud-based economic model."
According to VMware, business continuity is a critical priority for organisations. The low cost and simplicity of this service means enterprises can avoid the burden of owning tertiary data centres for DR, and can now continuously protect applications that were previously vulnerable because it was too expensive and complicated to include them in a DR plan, it adds.
For many businesses, VMware explains, DR involved maintaining exact duplicates of data centre hardware configurations, more than doubling costs, and the challenges of maintaining the same configuration meant DR tests were often difficult, highly manual, and infrequently performed.
It adds that VMware vCloud Hybrid Service - Disaster Recovery offers a simple, automated process for replicating and recovering critical applications and data in a warm standby environment at a fraction of the cost of duplicating infrastructure or maintaining an active tertiary data centre.
"We continue to aggressively execute our hybrid cloud vision, delivering capabilities like DR that businesses can use to extend and protect their existing IT investment to the cloud," says Bill Fathers, senior VP and GM, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit at VMware. "VMware continues to distinguish itself from other cloud providers by making disaster recovery simple and cost-effective, allowing our customers to use a hybrid cloud approach to deliver business value, without wrestling with operational complexity and incompatibility inherent to other public clouds."
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