In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Northeast data center, cloud and managed services provider (MSP) Xand has announced expansion plans. The company will extend their business continuity and disaster recovery services by adding more than 35,000 square feet of new dedicated and shared workspace.
The additions will be made to Xand's facilities in Marlborough, MA and Hawthorne, NY. Xand has a total of six facilities that served as home to nearly 1,000 of its customers' staff members who were on site during the hurricane and its aftermath. The Valley Forge, PA facility hosted nearly half of those employees, and the company also accommodated several new clients. Those clients' previous providers had been unable to meet their Recovery Time Objectives (RVOs).
Xand successfully accommodated all client requests during the storm and turned no one away. The MSP leveraged their cloud platform, workspace recovery seats and other technologies and safely maintained 100 percent uptime in all their data center facilities throughout the storm and its aftermath.
The additional space will be made available to customers as private suites, shared workspace or a combination of both. It is slated to be available during the first quarter of this year, and will better help the company assist customers in meeting their RTOs, as well as establishing secondary and tertiary recovery plans. Disaster recovery services from Xand include replication, online vaulting and electronic backups and cloud recovery. The MSP also offers traditional tape, physical asset recovery, shared and dedicated workspace and other custom designed applications.
"During Hurricane Sandy, we enabled a multitude of businesses and organizations to rapidly rebound from the devastating effects of the storm," said Yatish Mishra, president & CTO of Xand. "With the addition of over 35,000 square feet of brand new workspace, we're excited to offer even more disaster recovery options for our existing customers, while continuing to welcome new clients who are reassessing their current business continuity needs."
"Everyone in the Northeast has heeded the lessons of Hurricane Sandy and Xand is stepping up to the table as well," added Mishra. "We've seen a strong market demand for disaster recovery solutions, housed not just in secure facilities, but also on our cloud platform. The timing is perfect right now for more expansion to meet this increased customer demand."
Edited by
Brooke Neuman
