Quorum Delivers Backup and Recovery Suite

Quorum, Inc. announced availability of its onQ 4.0 platform offering a suite of HA, DR and hybrid cloud (DraaS) solutions.

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It offers one click recovery, allowing customers to cut DR time from hours to minutes.

Other key highlights are the ability for automated DR testing and sandboxing for production level patch and configuration testing. The part is all features available in onQ 4.0 are delivered and managed from a single management console.

Key features with onQ 4.0 platform:

• Instant recovery – one click starts a virtual clone of production servers

• UI – browser based, single view and color coded for easy problem ID

• Automated DR testing – clones are started and verified after each backup

• Sandbox environment – local subnet allows patch and configuration testing

• Migration tools – bare metal restore to same or different hardware.

• Replication – compressed and encrypted backups are sent to customer DR site or Quorum cloud (DraaS)

• Archive – policy based migration and retention

• Backup – server image, apps and data compressed and encrypted

• Deduplication – both at the source and destination

The features of the onQ 4.0 product are aimed to address clear customer and partner demand for more solution consolidation, automation and simplicity.

Based on a recent study conducted by company’s named, The State of DR Report, businesses are dealing with overwhelming complexity and cost, and are looking to simplify and consolidate solutions. Businesses are looking to migrate more DR capability to the cloud or hybrid solutions.

Some of the key findings of this study are:

• 75% of respondents are leveraging cloud based DR solutions, with 36% using a hybrid on premise and cloud model and 39% using only DraaS.

• 89% of respondents are planning on implementing more cloud based DR

• 64% of respondents are using more than 3 different DR products with 26% using between 5-10.

• 90% of respondents would be interested in consolidating their DR into one management console.

• Over 80% say that it takes over an hour to recover from a server failure, even with 72% of respondents saying that speed of backup and recovery is critical.

There are several significant trends concerning IT leaders in this study and the full report can be viewed here.

“This release is significant in that we are offering customers the only solution that provides HA, DR and DraaS in a single pane of glass.” said Simon Pearce, CEO, Quorum, “We are focused on being the fastest recovery solution in the market offering one-click recovery to any combination of infrastructure. This is an underserved market; customers are trying to get by with old technology and onQ version 4.0 represents the next generation in DR capability.“

“A product that can cut recovery time from hours to minutes, and a solution set that outdoes all of our competitors speaks for itself” said Darin Pendergraft, VP, product marketing. “The ability to perform automated self-testing and cloud sandboxing with any combination of HA, DR or DraaS, makes Quorum onQ 4.0 a highly competitive offering in this mature marketplace.“

OnQ 4.0 will be available the first week of December to customers.