PHD Virtual Provides Easy On-Ramp to Cloud DR and RaaS

PHD Virtual Technologies, a pioneer in virtual backup, infrastructure monitoring and innovator of disaster recovery assurance solutions, announced today an easy on-ramp for cloud service providers wanting to provide disaster recovery-as-a-service solutions (RaaS). Because IT organizations feel sustained pressure to support aggressive recovery time objectives (RTOs), they need assurance from their cloud service provider that their applications and business services can recover within a timeframe that meets business requirements.
“More and more companies are looking to leverage the cloud for disaster recovery and this is positively impacting growth in the RaaS space,” said Carlos Escapa, SVP and General Manager of Disaster Recovery products at PHD Virtual. “We are seeing exponential growth from cloud service providers who recognize that PHD’s ReliableDR, provides the only automated way to prove that they can recover their customers’ IT environments within agreed SLAs. ReliableDR’s powerful reporting capabilities also provide auditable compliance proof of business continuity policies.”
“The partnership with PHD Virtual provided NSIS Systems the ability to provide cost effective Disaster Recovery as a Service for the VMware Platform,” said Stephan Buys, the Managing Director of NSIS Systems, a UK Cloud Services Provider. “PHD Virtual's ReliableDR is a great product which provides the end user with an easy to use interface to manage their disaster recovery. The continuous and automated testing of the recovery virtual machines ensures that the end users will have functional recovery points to fail over to. NSIS Systems is looking forward to a long term partnership with PHD Virtual.”
Gartner estimates that the worldwide RaaS market will grow to $1.2 billion by 2017, a CAGR of 21%. By 2014, 30-percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery.

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PHD’s ReliableDR 3.1 is a disaster recovery assurance solution that dramatically reduces the cost of IT disaster recovery testing to support increasingly aggressive recovery service level agreements demanded by businesses and compliance auditors. Unlike legacy DR tests, which are typically performed once per year and can cost upwards of $30,000, ReliableDR enables disaster recovery (DR) exercises to be performed on a daily, or even hourly, basis and at a fraction of the cost. ReliableDR not only enforces Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) / Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), but actually delivers Recovery Time Actuals (RTAs) and automatically detects stale snapshots that are outside the RPO policy.
“Clouds reconfigure virtualized resources all the time so testing for disaster recovery must be done frequently,” said Escapa. “ReliableDR, fully automates the orchestration of the DR testing process and helps cloud service providers make sure that recovery procedures are current and in compliance with business continuity requirements and regulations.”
“PHD's ReliableDR enables cloud service providers to provide ironclad assurance that their customers’ systems will come up within SLAs,” said Dave Simpson, Senior Storage Analyst, The 451 Group. “This differentiates their cloud recovery services and allows them to better meet customers’ requirements.”