Axcient integrates DR, backup service

Axcient is offering a service that allows automated backup onsite, as well as business continuity or disaster recovery schemes to be set up for managed service providers and IT administrators, reports Computerworld.

Axcient's ServerAlive claims that an administrator can restore a failed server, including the operating system and all applications, in about 15 minutes by launching a virtual instance of the failed server through a Web browser.

The server image then runs on the appliance until an administrator can repair the server or install a new one, at which time the server image can be migrated from the appliance.

Most firms do not have enough pennies to effectively invest in data storage and disaster recovery protection, warns a survey, writes Computer Business Review.

Four in 10 of the 400 businesses surveyed said they lacked the budget to protect their data effectively, particularly in the face of ever-escalating demands for data backup. More than half (57%) of respondents, all from companies with at least 1 000 employees, said their data stores were expanding by at least 20% a year.

Despite the growth in storage requirements, three-quarters of respondents said their data protection budget would remain flat or fall in 2010.

The OnQ, aimed at small to medium size enterprises, is similar to an onsite backup appliance, but with the inclusion of hypervisor-based virtual machines, states ITWire.

As it backs up file servers, whether real or virtualised, it creates ready-to-run, up-to-date virtual machine clones of all critical systems can be brought online immediately in case the original system fails.

The OnQ 2.0, released last week, performs deduplication of redundant data, and the company claims it requires as little as a tenth as much storage and bandwidth as total backup. The new version also enables plug-and-play protection, says QuorumLabs.