IBackup Offers ‘Hot Site Disaster Recovery’

By Greg McNevin

October 8, 2007: Backup and recovery specialist IBackup has just announced a new data recovery service for SMBs, promising near-complete user backups of user data, and restored within hours of a disaster occurring.

A hot site is a duplicate of the original business site, with full computer systems and complete, or as near complete as possible, backups of user data. Following a disaster, a hot site enables business to relocate and be back up and running, ideally within hours of the calamity.

“Hot site based disaster recovery used to be the solution of choice only for large enterprises, such as large financial and healthcare units,” said Shweta Sachdeva, COO at Ibackup creator Pro Softnet Corp. “This is the most advanced form of disaster recovery as it lets the business recover to normal operations within a few hours even in the event of a disaster, but it is also the most expensive, until now.”

IBackup claims that through its own live data tests multiple terabytes have been successfully backup up with only a few hours delay in data sync between two centers. SMBs are unlikely to require a hot site with multiple terabytes however, so even these few hours are more than a business is likely to experience when disaster strikes.

As it is being pitched at smaller operations, IBackup is offering 5GB to 300GB plans for online signups, and more still for custom accounts. The “hot site” feature is free for those with current IBackup data protection plans, and for those without, Pro Softnet CEO Raghu Kulkarni says they can signup for any of the IBackup plans and implement hot site based disaster recovery right off the bat.

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