HotLink
Corporation, the market leader in transformation solutions for
hybrid IT, today announced its new HotLink Managed DRaaS (disaster
recovery as a service) utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide
holistic VMware data protection and cost-effective business resiliency.
The new offering combines the award-winning HotLink disaster recovery
(DR) and business continuity (BC) technology with fully-managed services
for a turnkey solution -- at unprecedented prices so it is affordable by
all.
Recent research from the Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council shows
that 73 percent of companies are failing in terms of disaster readiness,
and 58 percent rarely or never test their DR plans because it is overly
difficult, manual and expensive. The new HotLink Managed DRaaS is
specifically designed to provide IT organizations with the advanced
technology, skilled resources, cloud knowledge, hybrid IT experience,
methodology and continuous service delivery needed to ensure their
environments are protected -- whether the disruption is a security
breach, networking failure, software issue, human error or other
unexpected condition.
Unlike typical DRaaS offerings that are too expensive for most
organizations to deploy, HotLink Managed DRaaS benefits from the low
pricing, broad reach and unlimited scalability of AWS. The new service
is built around HotLink’s award-winning product, HotLink DR Express,
the only VMware-certified DR/BC solution that is deeply integrated with
VMware management and provides intuitive and automated VMware data
protection in AWS -- including backup, replication, disaster recovery
and business continuity. The new HotLink Managed DRaaS delivers a
seamless environment so companies can quickly and predictably adapt to
disruptions and maintain continuous business operations, all managed by
the expert services, skills and technical resources of HotLink’s team.
“HotLink Managed DRaaS provides an affordable and accessible insurance
policy that ensures customers’ environments can be seamlessly restored
and readily managed in the event of a failure, using IT’s existing
VMware management tools and methodologies. This is a first in the
industry,” said Lynn LeBlanc, CEO of HotLink. “Companies want a ‘set it
and forget it’ solution for DR/BC, and that’s exactly what our new
service provides. Most importantly, the new HotLink Managed DRaaS
solution is dramatically more affordable than other fully-managed
options because HotLink leverages the public cloud economics of AWS as
the DR/BC infrastructure.”
“In 27 years of working in the data protection field, I can attest how
important it is that BC/DR solutions operate as a seamless extension of
your day-to-day IT environment in order to be effective in quickly
recovering operations following a failure,” said Jason Buffington,
principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “Integrating the normal
IT operations and DR/BC capabilities within a management framework is a
must; leveraging hybrid-cloud services that offer BC/DR expertise makes
even more sense. All of this ensures that when something bad happens,
you’ll have a full-sized spare tire rather than a low-mileage, low-speed
donut.”
The new HotLink Managed DRaaS solution delivers the fully-managed and
systematic monitoring, testing, reporting and escalation support
required for successful and predictable DR/BC management, letting
companies complement and extend their IT operations teams with
knowledgeable resources in AWS, VMware and hybrid IT deployments. With
three managed services tiers available, HotLink provides affordable
business resiliency options for IT shops of all sizes and offers the
best of both worlds -- public cloud scale and economics together with
highly skilled managed services.
Features of the new HotLink Managed DRaaS offering include:
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AWS DR/BC site creation and maintenance — provides system setup and
configuration, initial restoration testing, recovery point objective
(RPO) scheduling and ongoing synchronization of changes to AWS;
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Continuous monitoring and testing — ensures systematic validation of
the DR/BC site, including the status of all protected workloads by
restore point to ensure that recovery plans are deployed as expected
and are fully functional;
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Reporting and alerts — delivers easy-to-understand reporting on the
entire DR/BC site status, as well as notification of any
irregularities that warrant customer attention;
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Business operations restored within minutes — enables restoration of
protected workloads, file servers and database servers in AWS within
minutes of a failure;
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VMware vCenter management extended to DR/BC operations in AWS —
provides a unified management platform that extends customers’
existing VMware infrastructure to the AWS DR/BC site in the event of a
failure scenario; also allows recovery plans to be built using VMware
vCenter-compatible tools;
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Migration back on-premise at any time — delivers easy, automated
restoration of operations, whether to the current state of AWS
workloads or any restore point;
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Expert managed services and support — provides IT organizations the
additional skills and systematic DR/BC management needed to ensure
that business operations can continue uninterrupted, regardless of the
type of failure in the environment; and
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Tiered service offerings — allows customers to select the optimal
service level to meet business needs and budgetary requirements;
Silver, Gold and Platinum options are available, spanning weekly,
daily and 24/7 service level delivery.
Availability
HotLink Managed DRaaS is available immediately.