NTT America Partners With Geminare

Geminare, Inc.www.geminare.com announced a partnership with NTT America, an IT infrastructure services provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the no. 1 telecommunications company in the world.

Through the partnership, NTT America will expand its Recovery as a Service (RaaS) portfolio with Geminare’s Cloud Recovery solution powered by Geminare’s Cloud On-Ramp Enablement Platform (CORE).

NTT Communications’ cloud vision is designed to ensure that businesses throughout the world can utilize their information and communication technology strategically, and expand globally via NTT Com’s global and cloud services. The addition of Cloud Recovery to NTTA’s RaaS portfolio, and the availability of cloud services strategic resources, represents an advancement in the delivery of the NTT Cloud Vision. NTT Com now has a capability for data protection through the cloud, delivered on a scale well beyond any other company in the market today.

"Business solutions become globally pervasive when leading providers whole heartedly embrace their capabilities, and present them as the de facto standard. This is what NTT America has done today with the expansion of its Recovery as a Service portfolio. It is a clear and decisive win for NTT America’s customers and the RaaS industry as a whole," stated Geminare’s president and CEO, Joshua Geist.

Geist added: "NTT America, together with its parent, NTT Communications, is a massive, successful organization with reach into customers of all sizes and in all markets. By embracing Recovery as a Service, NTT America sets a new benchmark, and forms the foundation for what the leading analysts have predicted: exponential, global growth in the RaaS market. Geminare is thrilled to be an NTT America provider, one that will help enable this global leader deliver, to the benefit of their significant customer base, the disruptive services and related value that the cloud offers."

The first client to embrace NTT America’s Cloud Recovery solution is a global IT consultancy who is using NTT America’s Cloud Recovery to deliver and manage its BC/DR offering for one of its global insurance sector customers.

NTT America’s VP, Data Center Services, Doug McMaster, stated in the NTT America press release: "The NTT America solution, enabled by Geminare, delivers the BC/DR management and monitoring tools that satisfy the recovery time objectives of our client’s customer, and does so in a very economical way. NTT America’s Cloud Recovery requires no capital investment to deploy, and delivers operational cost savings that made the decision to adopt this managed solution an easy one for our client."

Steve Wagner, Geminare’s VP of Global Channels and Alliances, commented: "Not only is NTT America providing a world-class service that solves its customers’ business continuity pain points, the company has introduced a value differentiator within the DR/BC industry that sets it apart from the competition. NTT America customers now have a strategic Cloud component that introduces the ability to immediately failover into the Cloud and turn up additional compute resources as needed. The doors are now wide open for enterprise accounts, some of whom have been reluctant to embrace the Cloud, to fully leverage the value inherent in cloud computing."

Geminare personnel were available in the NTT America booth at VMworld Aug 27-30th 2012 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.