HotLink launches disaster recovery as a service

With more and more systems moving to cloud delivery models it's not surprising that disaster recovery services should follow suit.

California-based HotLink is joining the trend with the launch of its new HotLink Managed DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide VMware data protection and cost-effective business resiliency.

Recent research from the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council shows that 73 percent of companies are failing in terms of disaster readiness, and that 58 percent rarely or never test their DR plans because it's too difficult and expensive. HotLink's new Managed DRaaS is designed to provide IT organizations with the technology, skilled resources, cloud knowledge, hybrid IT experience, methodology and continuous service delivery needed to ensure their environments are protected -- whether the disruption is a security breach, networking failure, software issue, human error or other unexpected condition.

"HotLink Managed DRaaS provides an affordable and accessible insurance policy that ensures customers' environments can be seamlessly restored and readily managed in the event of a failure, using IT's existing VMware management tools and methodologies. This is a first in the industry," says Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of HotLink. "Companies want a 'set it and forget it' solution for DR/BC (Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity), and that's exactly what our new service provides. Most importantly, the new HotLink Managed DRaaS solution is dramatically more affordable than other fully-managed DR/BC options because HotLink leverages the public cloud economics of AWS as the DR/BC infrastructure".

Product features include continuous monitoring and testing to ensure systematic validation of the DR/BC site. This includes the status of all protected workloads by restore point so that recovery plans are deployed as expected and are fully functional.

It delivers easy-to-understand reporting on the entire DR/BC site status, as well as notification of any irregularities that need customer attention. Protected workloads, file servers and database servers can all be recovered from AWS within minutes of a failure.

A unified management platform extends customers' existing VMware infrastructure to the AWS DR/BC site in the event of a failure. It also allows recovery plans to be built using VMware vCenter-compatible tools.

Customers can select the optimal service level to meet their business needs and budgetary requirements. Options are available spanning weekly, daily and 24/7 service level delivery.

For more information and pricing you can visit the HotLink website.

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