Interoute has launched a self-service disaster recovery and backup service as part of its Virtual Data Center offeringEuropean web hosting provider Interoute announced on Wednesday it has launched a self-service disaster recovery and backup service as part of its Virtual Data Centre offering, built into its pan European network and data center platform.
The move comes a few months after Interoute launched Virtual Data Centre, its infrastructure as a service offering for enterprises.
Disaster recovery is one of the most critical value-added services a hosting company can offer their customers, as it simplifies the process to speed recovery time of a customer’s infrastructure by running it in the cloud.
The disaster recovery and local backup capabilities are available to organizations that provision their on-demand computing needs via Interoute’s VDC and are looking to build a resilient architecture across multiple geographically separated locations.
Though disaster recovery used to be too expensive, the cloud has changed this and now web hosting companies can offer disaster recovery and backup service to help customers build affordable data and application recovery strategies without the need to invest in a separate physical data center.
Contrary to current solutions, enterprises won’t even need to pay for transporting data between Interoute’s VDC zones, which expensive data traffic costs when moving content from one VDC zone to another.
The pay-as-you-grow pricing model ensures that organizations only pay for the storage they use, providing the cost effective advantages of a public cloud while maintaining the security of a private cloud.
Interoute’s Cloud Storage tiers are available via its online application marketplace, Interoute CloudStore, which allows organizations to instantly replicate data volume enabling automatic back-up and securing of data.
Once selected, every file or document saved in the office is then automatically backed up locally or a replication is sent to another data center ensuring complete separation.
The service is currently available in London, Amsterdam and Geneva, with plans to expand across its pan-European network in the future including Berlin in H2 2012.
“Back up of data in the cloud is becoming increasingly widespread as organizations recognize the benefits,” said Matthew Finnie, CTO at Interoute. “It’s not about taking risks with your data, it’s about using a solution that’s appropriate for your company and picking the right level of back up. Interoute’s Virtual Data Centre provides a disaster recovery service with the security of the private cloud but with the cost effectiveness of a public cloud.”
Interoute Communications currently operates Europe’s largest cloud services platform, which encompasses over 37,282 miles of lit fiber, 8 data centers and 32 colocation centers, with connections to 140 additional third-party data centers across Europe.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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