| BT extends further into disaster recovery market LiveVault Corporation has announced that BT Group plc is extending its data protection services for small and mid-sized businesses with the LiveVault Online Backup and Recovery Service. Through this partnership, BT customers will be able to completely protect their data from disaster by continuously backing up business server data and making it available for immediate recovery. BT will market the LiveVault service under the brand BT Datasure Online Server Backup. BT Datasure, powered by LiveVault, is designed for customers whose servers reside outside of major data centres and who have primarily relied on in-house tape backups to keep their data safe. "Traditional recovery services have depended on expensive or complex IT systems, causing too many companies to ignore data backup," said Mick Hegarty, ICT general manager at BT. "This has resulted in too many situations where companies lost customers or revenue as a consequence of lost data. Broadband has provided a real opportunity to deliver a service to small and mid-sized businesses, allowing them to safely guard their data without the heavy investment in time and resources." BT Datasure, powered by LiveVault, works by automatically and continuously backing up business server data via a secure Internet connection and storing it in a secure off-site facility, where it is available for immediate recovery in the event of a system failure, virus, human error or other disaster.
BT Datasure, powered by LiveVault supports users of Windows, Sun Solaris or Linux operating systems and protects all databases, applications and file types. The service is offered in association with ImperaData, a business continuity service provider and LiveVault Partner. www.bt.com/business/datasure
•Date:
2nd December 2003 •Region: UK / N.America
•Type: Article •Topic:
BC markets |
