Iomart Delivers Secure DR to Cloud Using EMC RecoverPoint for VMs

iomart Group Plc has launched a DR service, providing a solution for protecting VMs.

The service, based on EMC Corporation‘s RecoverPoint for VMs, resolves the traditionally complex issue of protecting data stored in virtualized environments, enabling synchronous and asynchronous protection and allowing any point in time recovery.

Organizations are increasingly moving their digital workloads to virtualized environments in order to achieve business efficiencies – but protecting and restoring individual files stored on VMs can be more complex than in traditional systems. As payroll systems, accounting programs, CRM systems, stock management and employee records transition to VMs, organizations put themselves at great risk if they fail to protect that data.

The company provides businesses with a solution for protecting VM data, enabling them to continue to run business workloads on their premises, while protecting data in the cloud. Thus, they can benefit from security and agility, as they try to reduce the cost and complexity of such solutions.

The company can even offer a solution where businesses can realize the benefits of virtualization through its own hosted compute-as-a-service offering, and then protect that virtualized data with the RecoverPoint-based solution.

“It’s critical when planning DR that data copies are stored remotely, so cloud solutions have a natural advantage – especially for businesses that have only one site,” explains Bill Strain, CTO, iomart. “We wanted to provide a DR to the cloud solution that was simple to implement, allowed businesses to protect emerging workloads and was proven in the marketplace. EMC RecoverPoint for VMs allowed us to easily enhance our other cloud services with a solution that did just that.“

The company chose RecoverPoint for VMs, because it is cost-effective, easy to use, and can be integrated simply with iomart’s offerings. It was a solution of choice, because of the ability to provide RPO and enable fast recovery of VMs. Flexibility of architecture and the solution enhance the offering. RecoverPoint for VMs was selected as the platform of choice to deliver DR as a Service.

Peter Smails, VP marketing, data protection, EMC, says: “EMC RecoverPoint for VMs is a data replication solution, based on proven RecoverPoint technology that customers have trusted to protect their mission critical data. The solution empowers Service Providers such as iomart to offer DR as a Service in the cloud.“