Blue Turtle extends business continuity software offering through partnership with XOsoft

Blue Turtle Technologies, a leading solutions provider specialising in IT infrastructure management, has signed an agreement with XOsoft, an award-winning developer of continuous application and information availability solutions that address business continuity and disaster recovery needs, to distribute its products in southern Africa.

Blue Turtle Technologies brings best-in-class software products from premier global vendors to the South African market, covering service, system and security management. XOSoft was selected as a partner after a review of its software solutions such as WANSync and the recently launched Assured Recovery, an innovative combination of the best features of XOsoft`s products that makes it possible to regularly test disaster recovery procedures with minimum cost and disruption.

"We are pleased to partner with Blue Turtle Technologies in the emerging southern African market as we build a network of qualified partners to help deploy our solutions worldwide," says Benny Sand, VP Channel Partners for XOsoft. "We recognise the company`s storage management focus, disaster recovery knowledge and expertise in Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Oracle database environments as essential factors in our partners."

"Our clients have a need for business continuity solutions which provide the continuous application and information availability need to keep enterprises working," says Blue Turtle Technologies Marketing Director Martyn Healy.

"No information system is impervious to unexpected disaster. Whether natural misfortune, such as data corruption and hardware failure or a malicious attack, a business may find itself deprived of its critical information channels. Flawless business continuity software that facilitates frequent disaster recovery testing and should be at the core of good practice for all companies," says Healy.

"We look forward to offering the leading XOSoft products such as WANSync to our clients, providing them with a new level of continuous data availability as well as saving costs and downtime incurred to synch system differences."

All XOSoft business continuity solutions are specifically tailored for industry-standard application and database servers such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and Oracle database, and include the following products:

* WANSync Disaster Recovery - data replication / data recovery software WANSync for disaster recovery synchronises and continuously replicates files, databases and entire application servers over LAN and WAN, in real-time. In case of disaster, users may easily be diverted to standby replicas, ensuring rapid time to recovery and continuous application availability.

* WANSyncHA High Availability - automated failover and automated failback capabilities Based on XOsoft`s WANSync business continuity platform, WANSyncHA provides enhanced high availability with application-aware automatic failover. WANSyncHA maintains identical replicas of complete database and application servers through continuous real-time replication. Should a server fail or have to be shut down for maintenance, a synchronised replica, located in the same office or halfway around the globe, will automatically take its place to maintain continuous application availability.

* Assured Recovery - breakthrough technology for disaster recovery testing Assured Recovery is a transparent, non-disruptive test of disaster recovery systems that can be performed automatically. It enables a full test of the recoverability of data on a replica system by actually starting up application services and performing whatever operations are required to verify the integrity of the data, including updates to the database, without any need to perform an expensive resynchronisation or to leave the production system vulnerable for an extended period after the test.

* Enterprise Rewinder - continuous data protection technology Enterprise Rewinder is an innovative continuous data protection solution tailored specifically for industry-standard application and database servers. This technology is embedded in our current WANSync disaster recovery and WANSyncHA high availability software, or is available as a standalone product. Enterprise Rewinder works in conjunction with leading backup and snapshot-based solutions, journaling change and update events in between standard backup and snapshot cycles. The resulting disk-based journal maybe referenced to easily and quickly rewind corrupted servers. The ability to instantaneously rewind affected application resources to any previous consistent state enables fast time to recovery and ensures minimal data loss.