NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company and premier provider of
enterprise-class hosting, managed applications, managed messaging and managed
cloud services, today announced its latest platform enhancement that
allows customers to replicate their virtual machines between separate
locations and environments. The company’s NaviCloud Director solution
now provides disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) technology that
enables the replication of virtual machines between NaviSite’s NaviCloud
Director (NCD) infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environments, as well
as from a customer’s dedicated on-premise or virtual IT environments.
The DRaaS solution enables a high degree of flexibility and
customizability to meet each company’s unique IT needs.
Many businesses are eager to migrate workloads from one geographic
location to another for either load balancing or disaster recovery
purposes. The use of virtualization makes this process much easier
because virtual machine images are simple files that can be transported
securely using well-established processes. DRaaS maximizes the types of
virtual environments between which data can be replicated, including:
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Cloud-to-Cloud – Replication will occur from one NaviCloud node to
another node. The customer has full control over configuring and
managing this as part of NaviSite’s AppCenter portal.
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Customer-to-Cloud – Replication will occur from an appropriately
configured customer environment to NaviSite’s NaviCloud node in the
target geography.
“In our work helping businesses and IT leaders secure their data and IT
environments, we are seeing a pressing need to enable customers to move
data securely from one location to another without altering the original
environment,” said Chris Patterson, Senior Director, Product Management,
NaviSite. “Businesses are grappling with an unprecedented influx of data
and new internal IT requirements. With this NaviCloud Director
replication enhancement, we are providing customers with solutions that
meet their needs for flexibility, security, scalability and business
continuity while also reducing the amount of time and resources spent to
manage the systems.”
The customizability baked into the NaviCloud Director replication
solution is consistent with NaviSite’s commitment to develop cloud-based
products and services that recognize each company’s IT infrastructure is
unique and requires customized, yet scalable solutions. Customizable
protocols and operational parameters established during the design phase
include:
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Replication intervals
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Transfer speed testing
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Ability to restore replicated environments
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Specificity of nodes
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Ability to test replicated environments without affecting production
“We’re proud to partner with NaviSite to provide enterprise-class
replication for their customers’ mission-critical workloads,” said Ziv
Kedem, CEO and co-founder, Zerto. “The close partnership between our
companies reflects a shared commitment to enabling the enterprise
customer to easily protect, migrate and recover workloads into and
between NaviSite clouds.”
The NaviCloud Director replication solution uses Zerto
technology, which delivers enterprise-class business continuity and
disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions for virtualized infrastructure and
cloud environments. Zerto’s software, Zerto Virtual Replication, is the
industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-one
applications. Zerto Virtual Replication replaces traditional array-based
BCDR that was not built to deal with virtual environments.