248% Growth in 1H16 for iland

In the face of cyber-attacks, infrastructure failures, human error and other threats, companies are now prioritizing BC initiatives that have traditionally been an afterthought.

As part of these efforts, teams increasingly focus on the security and compliance of cloud-based DR and backup.

iland Internet Solutions Corporation, a cloud provider, announced this strategic shift towards ensuring secure, fast and compliant IT resilience has fueled its growth across the United States, EMEA and Singapore markets.

iland Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) and Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings have achieved a 248% revenue growth rate in the first half of 2016. The company also more than doubled its number of new DRaaS and BaaS customers across diverse industries ranging from healthcare to financial services to oil and gas.

Gartner Inc. recently named iland a Leader in the 2016 Magic Quadrant for DR as a Service for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. According to the report, “Gartner estimates the DRaaS market will nearly triple in the next three years to a revenue point of $3.4 billion by 2019.”

“IT teams and the C-suite now see BC not just as insurance against rare natural disasters but as a thorough line of defense in the fight against malicious attack, ransomware and the ever-present risk of human error,” said Justin Giardina, CTO, iland. “But while executives accept IT resilience as an imperative, they also recognize it is yet another priority on IT’s exhausting to-do list. We alleviate that burden, partnering with industry leaders like Veeam and Zerto to give customers the fastest access to exceptional technology and a secure, reliable, compliant target location in the iland cloud.“

As business threats plague IT leadership, iland’s DRaaS and BaaS offerings play a vital role in protecting business and evolving overall IT strategies.

The rapid adoption rates directly correspond to key trends and best practices:

• Companies adopt BaaS as the first step to geographic diversification, sending secondary copies to a secure location with less than five minutes of setup time. For little expense, companies can protect themselves from the crippling costs of data loss, compliance fines and malicious threats like ransomware. These efficiencies spark rapid adoption, making BaaS the largest contributor to iland’s expanding customer base.
• DRaaS has become the standard when every second counts, enabling companies to minimize IT downtime that is often measured in the thousands of dollars per minute. Going beyond other DRaaS offerings, iland’s technology and expert support team ensure every step of DR planning, implementation and execution is seamless. Through the cloud console, customers can trigger failovers and failover tests to iland’s cloud on demand.
• Security requirements now lead the discussion, with customers rightly requiring their cloud targets to incorporate security and compliance features. iland has responded to this trend with integrated antivirus and malware protection, vulnerability scanning, storage and VM encryption, intrusion detection and prevention, file integrity monitoring and the on-demand reporting required for compliance audits.
• Backup and DR prove to be stepping stones to broader cloud migration, as the process of implementing and testing these services exposes customers to the ease of use, cost model, and be,its of cloud. iland helps customers identify their IT risk, technology requirements, and budgetary goals to deliver a complete BC plan, with accommodation for physical servers, co-location and complex networking. As a result, customers increasingly fail over to the iland cloud as part of a DR effort and choose to remain there, rather than failing back.
• In a disaster, companies report phone support is critical, as it provides the last piece of assurance a failover will succeed. iland support ensures on-barding is smooth and failover tests are successful but also closely monitors any failovers triggered to the iland cloud to proactively verify success for each customer.

iland has been recognized as Veeam’s Service Provider of the Year and Zerto’s Cloud Service Provider Partner of the Year, as well as VMware’s Service Provider Partner of the Year, Global and Americas. It is also part of the Cisco Cloud MSP Program for IaaS and DRaaS and partners with firms including Trend Micro, Hytrust and Nimble Storage.