Built on HP hardware and available in early November 2011, Cloud Continuity is offered as a pay-as-you-grow service.
Data
backup, business continuity and disaster recovery service provider Axcient
announced the launch of Cloud Continuity, a service aimed at small to
medium-size businesses that enables companies to launch all of their servers in
Axcient's cloud. When local servers fail, users can run a virtual office on
Axcient's cloud platform, enabling employees to continue working on their data
and applications, and from any Internet-enabled device at any location.
The
company said Cloud Continuity can be set up in minutes and doesn't require
users to make any changes to their network environment, install any software or
make any upfront investments-the platform is offered as a monthly service.
Built on HP hardware and available through resellers in early November 2011,
Cloud Continuity is offered as a pay-as-you-grow service.
"Traditional
backup systems just don't offer the level of service that Axcient does. We were
using both Acronis and Symantec, but had problems getting them to do what we
wanted," said Shane Linde, a network engineer at The Computer Center.
"The appeal of Axcient is that, with one device and one vendor, we provide
customers with ultimate continuity. For financial, legal and health care
practices with strict recovery time objectives and compliance requirements, or
any business that can't afford a day of downtime, the additional protection of
having data and applications live and accessible in the cloud gives them a
backup plan for their backup plans."
Research
by Contingency Planning, Strategic Research Corp. and
DTI/PricewaterhouseCoopers found that the effect of downtime and data and
application loss on small to medium enterprises caused 70 percent of small
firms to go out of business within a year of the event. While many midmarket
businesses have some type of backup solution in place, Axcient said few have
considered the cost of downtime between the point of data loss and the time
their systems are fully restored and operational.
"For
SMBs, losing access to their data and applications can mean losing their entire
business," said Meaghan Kelly, vice president of channel sales development
and strategies for HP. "Until now, companies have been forced to rely on
antiquated data protection methods, such as tape, to protect their valuable
assets. Axcient Cloud Continuity enables SMBs a complete backup and continuity
solution that protects not only their data, but also their applications, so
SMBs can focus on doing what they do best, running their business."
Justin
Moore, CEO of Axcient, said the majority of vendors that are focused on the
data protection market have built partial solutions that require an SMB to work
with multiple vendors, and most of those solutions only protect the data. "With
Cloud Continuity, we can ensure that businesses continuously have access to
both their data and their applications no matter what happens. We're going to
make downtime a thing of the past for SMBs," he said. "By leveraging
the scalability and cost savings of the cloud, we are able to provide SMBs with
enterprise-class service and technology at SMB price-points and SMB ease of
use."
Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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