PlateSpin unveils new packaging options

PlateSpin have unveiled new packaging options for PlateSpin Forge that make the disaster recovery hardware appliance more cost-effective for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which need to protect ten or more server workloads, reports CNN Money.

PlateSpin Forge is a purpose-built consolidated recovery solution that includes pre-packaged and preconfigured hardware, software and VMware virtualisation technology to accelerate deployment, simplify configuration and reduce total cost of ownership.

SMEs can now buy PlateSpin Forge in either a 10 or 25 workload protection model to more cost-effectively match their recovery investment with the size of their data centre and the number of physical or virtual server workloads they need to protect in the event of downtime or a disaster.

UltraLevel's "Green Servers and SAN" Disaster Recovery event will held on 25 June at Maggiano's Restaurant in Detroit, Michigan, where attendees will learn about the benefits of the latest virtualisation and disaster recovery technologies available from VMware, Data Domain, and Dell EqualLogic , states Newswire.

The simulated catastrophe will illustrate the seamless continuity of operations enabled by the strategic assembly and integration of cost-effective, energy-efficient, multivendor solutions.

Attendees will see how IT services can be rapidly restored and made available to end-users from a secondary disaster recovery and business continuity data centre when a disaster renders a primary data centre totally inoperable.

According to Financial Times, there is no such thing as a risk-free operating environment. Ernst & Young's 2008 IT Internal Audit survey found that executives listed business continuity threats as the third most important risk facing their organisations.

These threats posed to day-to-day operations by disasters have become all the more real, as organisations rely on sophisticated IT and telecommunications, often coupled with outsourced business processes.

"As things become more automated, CIOs are concerned that a small component of an application or of connectivity could be lost," says Richard Brown, a partner in the firm's technology, security and risk services business. "A small incident can easily escalate."