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If a Hurricane Hits Your Servers, A Cloud Could Save Your Business
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Robert on 27 August, 2009 12:17:00
 
Toronto, Canada (Gawkwire.com) Hurricane season is officially underway. The
season is now entering its historical peak period of August through October,
when most storms form. Now is a good time for business owners and IT managers to
review their current disaster recovery plan, says Dave Minns of Storage
Guardian, the company that specializes in online and cloud backup solutions for
small and medium-sized businesses.
"You can minimize the business impact of a natural disaster with online data
backup to an offsite location -- and nowadays that means the cloud," says Dave
Minns, client services manager at Storage Guardian. "Companies with a
cloud-based business continuity plan can recover from a disaster in minutes. And
keep in mind that every minute you're down is a major ding in your company's
credibility with customers, partners and suppliers."
Storage Guardian's 'Jumpstart Cloud Continuity' program -- limited offer
Storage Guardian is making it easy for a business to implement cloud continuity
by providing free initial data upload via USB drive for the first 50 companies
that sign up. The USB drive, which is shipped direct to the customer, eliminates
the need to perform a time-consuming initial backup via the Internet.
Click here for more details on the Jumpstart program.
Comprehensive business continuity protection has historically been something
only large corporations could afford. The required investment in expensive,
redundant hardware (both onsite and in remote locations) seldom provided
suitable return or a 100% reliable restore of critical data. However, the advent
of 'cloud computing' has made the provision of dynamically scalable and
virtualized resources more available, including storage. Now, with Storage
Guardian Cloud Continuity, even small businesses can quickly recover their IT
infrastructure after a major disaster, ensuring their business doesn';t miss a
heartbeat.
Cloud continuity is the latest approach to business continuity
Storage Guardian Cloud Continuity drastically reduces the operational impact of
a natural disaster by restoring a single-server backup set from high
availability storage to the cloud in just minutes. Users then have full access
to all applications and data while the physical server is replaced, at which
time normal operations can be resumed.
With cloud continuity service in place, a business can:
Minimize operational downtime
Continue business-critical activities while repairing its physical environment
Gain access to restored data in the cloud from anywhere in the world
Restore the data from the data repository into the cloud at LAN speed
Storage Guardian's latest cloud continuity technology supports online backup and
disaster recovery for virtualized computing environments (Citrix XenServer,
Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESX), and no hardware investment is required.