PRESS RELEASE 16th November 2015
A new approach to Disaster Recovery is now available
After 5 years of intensive behind-the-scenes
development and testing, SystemFlip announces its transformation from a stealth
mode start-up to a fully operational backup and disaster recovery (DR)
specialist.
SystemFlip Continuous Recovery is a simple, integrated,
easy-to-use solution that combines backup and DR. It delivers protection from
major disasters as well as minor day-to-day problems, allowing IT professionals
to focus on business-specific developments rather than worry about backup and
DR.
In the past the DR market has been characterised by
patchwork solutions that require users to employ highly skilled practitioners
and purchase multiple products that are complex to combine, expensive to run
and which frequently let customers down.The result was that failover took many
hours or even days to complete. As backup and DR solutions came from different
vendors this meant both needed to replicate the data offsite, resulting in high
bandwidth requirements and could not be orchestrated to work together. Also
data storage costs were high because data had to be stored twice - once for
each application.
Breaking new ground in recovery times and ease of
use, SystemFlip offers features hitherto unavailable in one package. SystemFlip
technology is protected by both UK and US patents.
What is SystemFlip Continuous Recovery?
SystemFlip is a fast, easy-to-use, fully automated
backup and disaster recovery solution. The on-site appliance takes regular,
frequent snapshots of client IT systems both locally and in the cloud, and
provides up to seven years’ data retention. Any problems can be dealt with by
seamlessly “flipping” to virtual clones of the production servers that are
available both on the SystemFlip appliance and in the SystemFlip Cloud. This
allows users to get back up and running in just minutes, even in the case of a
full-blown disaster.
It is the continuous nature of SystemFlip that
makes it unique, ensuring that failover server clones are continually updated
both alongside customer servers and in the SystemFlip Cloud, ready for
failover. This is in stark contrast to other products that require customers to
have their own failover datacentre facilities and can only create virtual
servers from the last backup job at the point of failure, meaning that failover
cannot be initiated for several hours in the event of a disaster.
The SystemFlip service comprises a sophisticated
on-site hardware appliance complete with specially developed backup and DR
software, combined with off-site storage and recovery.