US Signal Expands Cloud Business With DR Service in Grand Rapids, MI

US Signal Company, LLC, an industry network and cloud hosting providen, with Cisco Managed Services Cloud Partner (MSCP), announced to have expanded its portfolio of services with Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

It will provide customers a range of DR options to ensure secure, reliable operations for US Signal’s growing customer base.

Home Computing Magazine reports that 60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster and 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster.

“We’re very pleased to add DRaaS to our existing Data Protection Suite of services,” said Matt VanderZwaag, director of product development, US Signal. “Our entire Data Protection Suite complements our existing US Signal cloud Hosting services and demonstrates our investment and commitment to providing our customers with solutions that allow them to expand and transform their business.“

US Signal DRaaS replicates VMs, applications and OSs of a primary server environment to a diverse, secure virtual data center. Best used as a proactive tool to protect businesses against possible information technology disasters, a replicated instance of the replicated environment can be deployed and managed by US Signal. DRaaS delivers consistent protection across an entire organization with the ability to support multiple sites on one or more VMs.

“Our customers trust our network and existing cloud infrastructure. Now they can trust US Signal to fully implement and test their DR plans,” continued VanderZwaag. “US Signal owns the data centers and the network between them. Customers placing workloads in our cloud can now replicate those resources and experience industry-leading latency and recovery response times meeting their lowest RPO and RTO requirements necessary to get their business up and running in the event of an unplanned happening. The overall solution we can provide is pretty special.“

US Signal will continue to develop products and solutions to meet client needs for innovative product offerings. Data protection is vital to longevity of businesses, companies that aren’t able to resume operations within ten days (of a disaster hit) are not likely to survive, according to the Strategic Research Institute.

With over 14,000 miles of lit fiber and metro rings in 23 strategic tier-one, tier-two and tier-three markets, US Signal’s infrastructure is one of the largest fully deployed networks in the Midwest. The network’s optical backbone features Cisco Systems’ carrier class architecture and supports all of US Signal’s products. Product portfolio includes a suite of colocation, DR, security and cloud hosting services to complement its network offerings.