Kelway ServiceWorks Assure Brings Cloud Disaster-Recorery-as-a-Service

Kelway (UK)
Ltd. announced ServiceWorks
Assure, a cloud based DR-as-a-Service solution.

it provides businesses with the ability to replicate
their VMware-based server workloads to the company’s ServiceWorks compute cloud
infrastructure, which is hosted in their UK-based datacentres.

Backed by Zerto Virtual Replication
technology, it provides clients with the capability to meet their businesses
workload protection requirements thanks RPOs and RTOs of less than 30 minutes.
In the event of a disaster within a client’s on-premise infrastructure,
customers can failover to the Kelway cloud infrastructure – using either a
self-service capability, or by leveraging Kelway’s Service Operations Centre.

Benefits
are:

• Simple, non-disruptive deployment

• Scalable, with the ability to support thousands of workloads

• Storage
  agnostic, enabling business with any storage
  platform to use the service

• Reliable
  and predictable, backed by yearly non-disruptive
  test failovers and compliance reports

• Optimised
  replication, reducing the need for expensive
  datacentre links

• Multi-site
  capable.

"We
are often approached by businesses looking to better-protect their operations.
Now more than ever, unnecessary downtime is costly – both in terms of revenue
and reputation," states Carl Lawton, practice lead for cloud services,
Kelway. "Our goal was to create a
solution which gives customers the confidence that they can rapidly recover
from unplanned downtime to get back on track with minimal fuss; we believe that
effective DR capability does not need to be complex or difficult to deploy.
After extensive testing, Zerto technology proved ideally suited to this goal,
and was selected to underpin Kelway ServiceWorks Assure."

"Service
Works Assure delivers on our commitment
to provide a transparent cloud service," comments Andy Eccles, CTO, Kelway.
"The service removes the costly
capital outlay typically associated with legacy DR environments and we designed
it to accommodate varying technology footprints, removing the need to re-design
applications or invest in storage replication – which is typically the case
with other providers’ solutions. Consequently, ServiceWorks Assure provides a
cloud-based answer to the question of what to do with existing applications,
which had been overlooked within the market."

In addition to using Zerto to serve clients
on-premise to cloud DR requirements, the company have also chosen to use the
technology to underpin cloud-to-cloud replication within their own datacentre
estate. The service include geographic replication as standard.

"Organisations
are increasingly recognising that the cloud is an ideal platform for IT
services, and are starting to use the cloud for protecting their most important
business applications," said Ziv Kedem, CEO, Zerto. "Zerto Virtual Replication technology is the
only solution capable of meeting both the performance and ease of use requirements
that Kelway’s customers demand. We are honoured to power both Kelway’s
cloud-based and enterprise offerings."