AppAssure Offers Cloud Backup and Recovery Service

To further serve the needs of its customer base, AppAssure Software Inc. announced the availability of Cloud Recovery Service, an affordable offsite backup and recovery service, giving companies of all sizes added protection against data loss in the event of a physical server failure or total data center site disaster and eliminating the need for dedicated disaster recovery hardware and software..

“Until now, offsite disaster recovery was too expensive and complex for most organizations,” said Najaf Husain, AppAssure’s CEO. “Combined with our award-winning Replay 4 software, AppAssure’s Cloud Recovery Service gives organizations of all sizes the ability to easily and affordably ensure continuous data protection and business continuity in the face of any outage from a single server failure to a total catastrophe.”

Companies seeking an easy and affordable way to leverage cloud computing for business continuity can point Replay’s continuous backup snapshots to their private cloud storage through AppAssure’s Cloud Recovery Service. In the event of a disaster, customers can restore remotely from their offsite backup image, or if bandwidth is limited, AppAssure will express ship a disk containing the backup data to the customer.

AppAssure’s Cloud Recovery Service uses state of the art offsite replication technology, combined with AppAssure’s Replay 4 software.

Key features include:

• SAS 70 compliant data center
• Redundant service providers delivering 10GBbps connectivity
• Secure facility with high availability via UPS and diesel generator failover power
• Customer is provided with a complete Virtual Replay Core Server, which is fully managed and maintained. No additional Windows Server license is required.
• Backups are maintained online and accessible during the entire retention period.
• Price is inclusive – no hidden bandwidth or processing charges apply