Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) vendors hopefully outnumber the major disasters they are designed to accommodate, otherwise we’d all be in trouble. There are a heckuva lot of these DRaaS tools out there.
The newest offering is vStream from Cirrity. The little ‘v’ in vStream stands for ‘virtual’ and mimics naming conventions used by partner VMware. You know, vSphere, vCloud, all that.
vStream is a hypervisor-based service that works at the block level and can do almost-continuous replication, the company said..
“DR to the cloud serves as a more effective alternative to in-house DR sites and is considered by many enterprises as a natural first step in the journey to the cloud,” remarked says Andrew Albrecht, COO of Cirrity. “With Cirrity, there is no need to worry about compliance and security, allowing a wide range of businesses to leverage their existing virtualized environments and implement a real-time DR plan. The advantages offered by vStream include a cost-effective choice for businesses that need to ensure their data is completely safe and readily available should a system failure take place -- even if it's only for a few minutes.”
When it comes to disaster recovery, actually getting back all your important data is job one. Job two is getting back to business quickly, and here Cirrity claims (MSP Today has not verified these assertions) to have the fastest recovery time in the industry (MSP Today is also sure that more than a few competitors would beg to differ). With vStream, businesses can have data restored in mere minutes.
Virtualization, especially fundamental VMware technologies, is the root of the high performance. One piece of vStream integrates with vCenter from VMware.
“Cirrity hosts vStream on a secure and compliant cloud infrastructure that is built on enterprise-class hardware,” explains Dan Timko, president and CTO of Cirrity. “vStream employs leading edge technology; however, the system we have created is easy to manage, and we remove all of the headaches from implementation. SMB and Enterprise end users will find a new tab in their vCenter management portal that provides easy access to the vStream product.”
So why are so many vendors in this market? Research House MarketsandMarkets thinks it knows, predicting that DRaaS will hit $5.7 Billion by 2018 and grow at a CAGR of 55.2 percent.
Partner Push
The vendor claims to be all about the channel, to have a good partner program, and pitches the fact that partners have access to a service that is already fully integrated and quick to deploy.
The partner program allows the channel to go after an array of markets, including business continuity and disaster recovery, cloud-based desktops, enterprise applications, hybrid cloud, SaaS enablement, and remote backup.
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Alisen Downey
