VirtualSharp Doubles Customer Base in Last 12 Months

At VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2012, VirtualSharp Software Corp., provider of automated DR solutions for private and public clouds, announced momentum for ReliableDR a year after launching version 3.0 at VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2011.

DR is a mandatory part of BC Planning that needs to be tested frequently for reliability and accuracy. DR testing used to be expensive and cumbersome but virtualization and cloud have made it easy and effective. Automated recovery processes in the cloud ensure that RPO and RTO become ‘Actuals’ (RPA/RTA) and organizations can guarantee compliance with corporate BC policies.

"We make DR testing a mundane and predictable task handled by software without human intervention," said Carlos Escapa, CEO and co-founder of VirtualSharp. "SLAs are tracked and enforced automatically, auditable anytime without disruption. We’re seeing accelerating demand for our DR solutions as awareness grows regarding the ease and convenience of multi-cloud orchestration."

In the last 12 months, VirtualSharp Software has:

• Doubled the number of paying customers and quadrupled the number of VMware virtual machines licensed
• Released ReliableDR Free Edition at VMware’s VMworld that customers can use to replicate as often as needed and automate migration and recovery testing
• Launched its Recovery-as-a-Service offering for cloud services providers
• Expanded support of storage technologies to DataCore, Oracle Axiom and Nimble
• Launched its V#P Partner program and now has 54 partners spanning 23 countries
• Been named a Cool Vendor in BC Management and IT DR Management by Gartner
• Added VMware co-founder Ed Bugnion to its board of advisors

"VirtualSharp verifies that the servers and applications are operational, and reports what the recovery time actual would be," said Martin Bloem, service delivery manager at Vivium Care Group. "In case of an emergency, we can now bring back production systems with the simple push of a button."

"VirtualSharp ReliableDR is unique. It has eliminated the need for manual DR testing and guarantees that our RPO and RTO for email and other business critical IT Services can always be met and become actuals, whatever the scenario," said Diego Gonzalez, IT systems and operations manager at Santalucia.

"In the past we needed 5 people during 24 hours to recover 40% of the services, now we have raised this to 60% of the services and we only need 2 people for 6 hours," said Gonzalo Nieto, Distributed Systems Support director at Kutxa.

"VirtualSharp Software is making good on its roadmap and delivering further game-changing features that increase the resilience of data centers and the confidence in BC/DR processes," said Fernando Baus, director of IT Infrastructure at Bankia SA.