Today, Neverfail extended availability for its IT Continuity Architect solution, following its closed beta
program. Starting today, a Tech Preview of IT Continuity Architect is available
for free download in advance of general availability scheduled for October 2013.
Architect helps companies bridge the gap between IT infrastructure and business
services by automatically analyzing infrastructure and applications, mapping
dependencies and tracking changes so IT can trust their business
continuity/disaster recovery (BCDR) plans will always work.
Despite the
benefits of new technologies like virtualization and cloud computing, they have
added significant complexity to BC/DR operations. Until now, IT organizations
have simply lacked the proper tools to identify which infrastructure components
and applications are most critical to the business. IT Continuity Architect
removes that roadblock by providing clear visibility into how the IT
infrastructure maps to business services and identifying gaps that stand in the
way of meeting business continuity objectives.
A number of
companies are participating in the Neverfail Beta program, including Baker
Donelson, First Acceptance Insurance, Direct General, and AMBAC
Assurance.
"With Architect, I
finally have discovery and dependency mapping capabilities that show me the
relationship between infrastructure and applications - and provides me the
assurance my business continuity plans will work like they are supposed to,"
said Shawn Robertson, Senior Systems Engineer at First Acceptance. "Analysis
that used to take hours and hours of manual work now takes minutes."
How It
Works
Neverfail's IT
Continuity Architect is an operations management solution that provides
visibility across the entire IT infrastructure and identifies how they are
connected with applications and business services.
- First,
Architect scans the infrastructure to discover servers, applications and
networks, making note of any existing DR solutions in place.
- Second, it
shows critical dependencies by monitoring network traffic between servers,
virtual machines and applications.
- Third, it
enables an organization to set availability objectives based on that
information.
- Lastly, it
automatically identifies gaps and risks to BCDR objectives, allowing IT to
prioritize any remediation efforts and justify necessary
investments.
"The biggest
take-away from our customer beta program is that, no matter how much testing is
performed, most IT departments can't be sure their BC/DR plans will work when
needed," said Martin Mackay, CEO of Neverfail. "Managing the ever-changing
environment in a modern data center requires a level of visibility that simply
has not been available - until now. Architect was designed with today's fluid
infrastructure in mind."
"Most BC/DR
solutions neglect to take into account risks posed to the overall business,"
said Bill Fitzpatrick, CTO at Loop1 Systems. "Neverfail Architect's dashboard is
something that every organization should have access to; Architect delivers a
comprehensive level of insight into the BC/DR environment that no organization
should live without."