California Bankers Association Uses QuorumLabs

QuorumLabs, Inc. announced its Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery solution, a disaster recovery solution that provides both onsite high availability of applications and data, plus instant recovery of applications and data from a SAS-70 Type II certified data center maintained by QuorumLabs.

Unlike a typical backup-only cloud storage solution, the onQ Hybrid Cloud runs servers locally or through the cloud and recovery is done with a single click. Recovery time is measured in minutes not days since there is no need to ship new hardware or to transfer data to restore applications.

The QuorumLabs Hybrid Cloud Solution adds to the company’s onQ High Availability (HA) appliance solution, part of the onQ Site Recovery System that has grown to protect thousands of servers worldwide.
 
It gives customers the flexibility of combining a local HA appliance with a monthly or annual fixed fee for cloud recovery. Customer can backup to an onsite onQ HA appliance for high availability and recovery, while adding on a cloud-based service for disaster recovery should a customer not have an offsite remote location or simply want to eliminate the hassle and expensive upfront investments. The charge for this service is per server protected, not per gigabyte.

 
CBA or California Bankers Association (Sacramento, CA) looked at several backup and recovery solutions, but found that in order to obtain the multi-functionality they needed, multiple vendors were required.

"To get high availability, automated backup and disaster recovery, we would have to sign up several different providers, which is very expensive," said Randy Mateo, IT manager, CBA. "With the QuorumLabs Hybrid Cloud solution, we get an onsite appliance for high availability, plus instant recovery via the cloud. We like that QuorumLabs operates the DR site, since it minimizes management of a DR site for us and is much more cost-effective than if we had to maintain it ourselves."
 
Small and mid-sized companies find this hybrid cloud solution attractive since it allows them to grow in a cost-efficient way without having to invest in additional hardware, IT staff or office space, resulting in a predictable cost model while minimizing business risk.

"QuorumLabs’ hybrid cloud solution blends onsite high availability with remote DR capabilities, so customers can instantly recover data and applications at any time and from anywhere, within minutes of a disaster," said Gene Loye, vice president of Innovation Network Technologies Corp. (InNet).
 
Instant Recovery
onQ is a hybrid cloud disaster recovery solution offering instant recovery. It maintains up-to-date, ready-to-run virtual machine clones of critical systems that can run right on the appliance, or in the cloud, transparently taking over for failed servers within minutes. onQ builds new recovery nodes continuously and can perform incremental backups in 15 minute windows. The Hybrid Cloud solution also allows customers to test systems at anytime, and allows scheduled, daily automatic testing to definitively prove that systems will work should a disaster occur.
 
Data and Applications are Secure
QuorumLabs maintains a secure data center that is SAS-70 Type II certified, and built to ensure a performance, safe and stable environment. Critical applications are ready-to-run (or test) at a moment’s notice. All data transferred from the HA appliance to the DR cloud solution goes through a 128-bit AES encrypted session behind a 256-bit AES VPN tunnel that is connected from the HA appliance to the DR Cloud solution. There is a dedicated virtual firewall isolating each individual custom virtual network. All connections to the DR appliance or the DR recovery nodes are via VPN to that firewall.