Asempra Technologies, a leading provider of instantaneous application and data availability solutions for the mid-market, announced several enhancements to its Business Continuity Server (BCS). The BCS version 2.5 has added a number of key new features, including support for Windows applications running in a VMware infrastructure, seamless integration with tape to eliminate costly and hard to maintain backup windows, Microsoft clustering protection, and enhanced scalability and performance improvements.

"In spite of the myth that somehow data is more valuable for larger companies and therefore warrants better data protection, the reality is data is mission critical for a company of any size,� said Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at the Taneja Group. Asempra has focused its Business Continuity Server squarely at mid size companies that are Windows-centric and taken much of the mystery out of using data protection software. I am particularly impressed with its ability to recover files and databases at a guaranteed consistency point nearest the requested point of recovery. Now with support for VMware and Microsoft clustering the product is even more powerful."

Asempra's patented application-aware, file-based, and real-time continuous data protection (CDP) solution delivers guaranteed application and data availability for Windows environments. Using Virtual On-Demand Recovery™ technology, an application's data is available for use within minutes, even seconds, of recovery. The data recovered is guaranteed to be completely usable on the first recovery, eliminating the need for multiple, costly manual recoveries that often result from other technologies and products. With the Business Continuity Server, simple point and click global to granular recovery provides recovery flexibility that ranges from individual objects, such as a single e-mail or file, all the way to a complete data center. Asempra dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of mid-market IT data protection by consolidating the needs of business continuity, disaster recovery, e-discovery, recovery management, compliance and governance into a single solution.