UK Hosting Company RapidSwitch Offers Multi-Site DR

RapidSwitch, supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, has become one of the first UK hosting companies to offer Windows Server 2012 to its customers.

The new OS, incorporating Microsoft’s Hyper-V 3, will provide customers to implement off-site DR at affordable prices.

Aimed specifically at SMEs, Hyper-V Replica is one of the key features
of Windows Server 2012 to offer a dynamic, multi-tenant infrastructure
to help scale and secure workloads and build private cloud solutions.

RapidSwitch parent company iomart Group plc
recently announced a major investment in a dedicated fibre ring
connecting its data centres, so Hyper-V Replica will be implemented in a
high-bandwidth, low-latency network environment.

Neil Christie, commercial director of RapidSwitch, says: "Many of our
customers have been eagerly awaiting both the investment in our network
infrastructure and the release of Hyper-V specifically to cater for
multi-site DR. RapidSwitch can now offer this technology to its
customers at a price they can afford."

RapidSwitch offers both Microsoft and VMware products for virtualisation.

RapidSwitch is a subsidiary of iomart Group plc which owns and operates data centres at six UK locations and is ranked as of the top 25 cloud services providers in the world.