Business Continuity Appliance From Asempra

Asempra Technologies, Inc. introduced its Business Continuity Appliance, a complete turnkey continuous availability/recovery solution for Microsoft environments that packages the company’s award-winning Business Continuity Server (BCS) into one easy to procure, rack and configure product.

Asempra’s Business Continuity Appliance builds on the success of the BCS by providing a total storage and recovery solution in a compact 2U rack-mounted package. Featuring plug-and-play installation, Asempra’s Business Continuity Appliance is a breakthrough solution for organizations looking for enterprise-class data protection without the cost and complexities of traditional approaches. The appliance is designed for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL and file server workloads in medium-sized companies or departments within larger organizations with no tolerance for the typical downtime associated with data recovery techniques, especially from tape media.

“Saving time and maximizing investments are top near-term initiatives for many companies. The introduction of Asempra’s Business Continuity Appliance is aptly timed since it aids organizations in reducing complexity while improving recovery objectives,” said Lauren Whitehouse, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Asempra’s ability to instantly serve up applications and data in a recovery event continues the efficiency theme by eliminating time penalties, data loss and the intervention of operational staff typical in tape-based recoveries.  Its new appliance is a must-have for protecting critical Microsoft application workloads.”

The Asempra Business Continuity Appliance employs automated, policy-driven protection for up to 1 TB of total production data to eliminate complex protection operations and guarantee instant data recovery. With up to 86,400 recovery points in a day (seconds in a day), the BCA eliminates the need to allocate time to perform daily or weekly backup jobs.  

Asempra’s patent-pending virtualized recovery and data protection technology (Virtual On-Demand Recovery) enables uninterrupted access to business applications and data and allows applications to restart from a storage failure in seconds without waiting for a full recovery. This virtualization process insulates the application from the recovery so that the application is fully usable, while a complete recovery of the full data set takes place transparently in the background with zero impact on production applications.

“Our customers have long appreciated Asempra’s ability to provide blazingly fast instant and simplified data recovery operations via one-click recovery. By integrating the award-winning BCS with storage into a single, all-in-one appliance, we are reducing complexity and management costs for our customers, and offering users an unbeatable product at a great cost,” said Gary Gysin, President and Chief Executive Office at Asempra. “Our new Business Continuity Appliance can be up and running in less than an hour. This is an ideal solution for companies searching for instant recovery of their mission-critical applications and data – whether that is an individual email, file, database or complete system.”

The Asempra Business Continuity Appliance is now available at a list price of $30,000 USD.