CenturyLink Acquires DataGardens

CenturyLink, Inc. announced the acquisition of DataGardens, Inc., a DRaaS provider based in Edmonton, Alberta.

For customers because it gives them a cost-effective and way to mirror physical or VM data to a highly available cloud environment.

The acquisition announced brings a DR offering into the CenturyLink cloud portfolio and lets CenturyLink more fully integrate this toolset into its product suite.

Listen to any CIO and you’ll hear that BC is a critical component of a healthy IT portfolio. However, only 23% of technology professionals think that they can get their IT systems backup and running after disaster. This might explain why Forrester is seeing a growing number of enterprises turn to cloud and DRaaS.

The two companies have a longstanding partnering relationship and formed a closer cloud relationship earlier this year. DataGardens’ software suite, SafeHaven, provides cloud-based DR by creating an offsite virtual data center in locations such as CenturyLink cloud. Customers can define recovery point objectives and RTOs, and quickly failover and failback with minimal disruption to mission-critical systems. In addition, SafeHaven delivers point-and-click test failover and failback functions that simplify disaster recover testing without affecting production data.

The DataGardens technology platform is for SMBs or enterprise departments that cannot tolerate unexpected downtime, but have traditionally seen DR as too expensive or complicated to set up. With this DR software suite, customers can set up a redundant cloud architecture that protects them from stress events such as unplanned outages or local hardware failures.

With DataGardens, CenturyLink acquires a platform and set of technologists. The product offers multiple deployment options, ‘protection groups’ that ensure that a pool of servers stay consistent, DR planning options, and other capabilities that demonstrate a thoughtful design and practical technology strategy.