iland and Zerto Protect Customers

Providing companies with the technology and support they need to ensure BC, iland Internet Solutions Corporation and Zerto, Inc. announced their joint customers are executing near-zero RTOs with cloud-based DR.

The growing customer base of financial, healthcare, legal and industrial companies rely on Zerto and iland to protect their workloads and minimize downtime.

In a recent report, Forrester Research, states: “Since some downtime is inevitable, it’s important to shift your attitude from reacting to downtime toward proactive planning, good processes, and preventive efforts. You may not be able to achieve 100% uptime, but you can at least strive to make services available when your customers most need them and have rapid response measures in place to make sure services are brought back online as quickly as possible.“

“There is a great deal of marketing hype around cloud-based DR right now, and we hear the confusion around backup versus BC from companies daily,” said Lilac Schoenbeck, VP of product management and marketing, iland. “At iland, we team with other industry leaders like Zerto to cut through the clutter and work hand in hand to address the complex details that a solid DR and BC plan requires. We’ve done it for hundreds of customers since 2008, and we are committed to continuing to deliver personalized support and cutting-edge technology to ensure that our customers can satisfy their own customers.“

Many cloud-based DR solutions require companies to recover their data before they can access it, resulting in significant downtime. Addressing the issue, iland’s DR services with Zerto allow customers to access data while it is being failed over to the recovery site in iland’s cloud. Customers also have control over which of iland’s eight data centers in the US, UK and Singapore will host their workloads, addressing both geographical and data sovereignty considerations.

“We use iland’s enterprise cloud to both run and protect our production servers, and the cost, agility and reliability benefits of our move to iland’s ECS and Cloud2Cloud DR-as-a-Service are clear,” said Greg Anderson, CIO, Piab AB. “iland’s ECS portal enables us to not only see what’s going on in our cloud, but also gives us the ability to control and manage our resources and costs on a global scale. And we rest easy knowing iland’s expert support team is just a phone call away.“

iland and Zerto’s joint customers attain BC because they are able to:

Minimize downtime by replicating workloads from virtual environments to iland’s HA cloud infrastructure, including cloud-to-cloud replication across multiple iland datacenters.
Access a team of DR experts that help assess, plan, test and execute DR plans.
Ensure accurate and efficient recovery with automated failover and failback capability.
Recover any or all applications as needed on a self-service basis.
Test DR plans at will with self-service test, failover and assisted failback capabilities.
Speed up replication and reduce WAN bandwidth requirements with Integrated Network Compression.
Satisfy network requirements with range of configuration options, such as preconfigured failover networking, internal and external IP configurations and co-location of physical equipment.
Leverage redundant, high speed, low latency connectivity to Tier 1 providers and connect to hundreds of carriers.
Satisfy compliance and security requirements, as iland’s US data center locations hold SSAE 16 certifications, its EMEA locations hold ISO 9001/27001 certifications and data is encrypted using AES-256.
Meet budget requirements with iland’s reservation with burst or dedicated resource options.
Incorporate legacy and physical systems into DR plans.

“We are proud that iland, leaders in providing enterprise cloud services, chose to partner with Zerto to offer DR solutions in the cloud,” said Sean Casey, director of cloud sales, Zerto. “Zerto’s seamless integration with iland’s cloud satisfies the rigorous enterprise DR requirements of customers around the world, from a variety of industries.“

iland is ranked as a leader in Forrester Research, Inc.’s report entitled, The Forrester Wave: Disaster-Recovery-As-A-Service Providers, Q1 2014. Forrester refers to iland as ‘the dark horse champion’ in the report. In the research firm’s evaluation, it received the highest scores possible for its core DRaaS offerings, recovery objective capabilities, platform and application support, data resiliency and risk mitigation, security, value proposition and vision, as well as pricing, service levels and contract terms.

iland showcased its DR and Enterprise Cloud Services at Interop New York September 29 – October 3, 2014.

For more information on iland and Zerto’s solutions and tips for DR:
iland Cloud-based DR-as-a-Service
iland data sheet: iland DR Services with Zerto
Getting started: A Guide to DR in the Cloud
Zerto data sheet: BC and DR, cloud Ready