Axcient Business Recovery Cloud for VMware

Axcient; Inc., in cloud-based RaaS, announced the latest version of its Business Recovery Cloud, providing faster system replication and recovery for physical and virtual environments, and accelerated file and folder recovery with the addition of drag-and-drop support.

The latest version of the solution improves performance by up to 9x faster than before and allows businesses to reduce their RPO and failover systems instantly.

With this announcement, organizations can now export any physical and virtual server image replications as a VMDK file, making it easy to not only recover VMware snapshots, but also to recover and/or migrate physical server snapshots as VMs. This physical-to-virtual (P2V) process is accomplished instantly with a click via the web interface without any complex conversion processes.

In addition, the release supports drag-and-drop recovery from the local appliance via integration with Windows Explorer, allowing users to move large numbers of files and entire folders to a target device easily. With the ability to restore more than 50GB in minutes, the new interface enables organizations to quickly and easily recover critical files and folders in a pinch.

Axcient has also extended its instant failover support. It previously supported instant server failover for the most recent system snapshot, and with this announcement, enables businesses to instantly recover systems from any point-in-time snapshot. This can be done both locally and in the cloud, further eliminating data loss and business down time.

Additionally, data replication to the Axcient appliance is now 3x faster with the latest version of the replication algorithm, enabling business to achieve even shorter RPO and have replicas of the most recent data available at all times.

Axcient is re-architecting the way companies protect, access, and recover data and applications by delivering a Business Recovery Cloud that is simple. Developed in the cloud, for the cloud, the platform goes beyond backup and mirrors an organization’s entire business in the cloud, including emails, files, applications, OSs and all of the interconnected elements of a network, to ensure that core business functions are never interrupted.

This latest release is currently in beta and will be rolled out for new and existing customers at no additional cost within the coming weeks.

“Server virtualization hs gained incredible traction in the midmarket with some analysts estimating 80% to 90% of workloads running on a VM,” said Justin Moore, CEO, Axcient. “With today’s announcement, we are continuing to deliver the most powerfully simple Recovery-as-a-Service solution for physical and virtual environments without the complexity of traditional backup and server replication products. With Axcient, companies of all sizes can have the same level of protection that enterprise solutions offer at a fraction of the price.”