(Source: PRNewswire)
TORONTO, June 29 /PRNewswire/ - Bell and Geminare Incorporated today announced a strategic partnership that brings Canadian small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a business continuity service that helps ensure continuous availability of applications and data, even in the event of a critical systems failure of disaster. The Bell Business Continuity Service trumps current simple online backup solutions in the market with a highly advanced and effective high- availability solution, previously only available on custom built enterprise-class dedicated hardware and software systems.
For SMBs, which typically lack the resources to manage their IT infrastructure in the same way as their larger competitors, this offering delivers enterprise-class continuous availability, with no capital investment - a significant advantage in today's volatile economy. The agreement also simplifies the buying experience for customers who want to deal with a single vendor for procurement, deployment, service and support of their business continuity requirements.
Bell clients can now access the Bell-delivered system developed by Geminare to ensure their critical technology infrastructure, including all Windows-based file and application servers, operates uninterrupted with a high state of availability, even in the case of a critical system failure.
The Bell Business Continuity Service features:
- SaaS-based, data protection via real-time WAN replication of file
servers and databases for Windows Servers, Microsoft Exchange,
Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS, BlackBerry and Oracle.
- Application availability via failover and failback for file servers,
Exchange, SQL, IIS and Oracle.
- Continuous data protection that provides data recovery in the event of
isolated data corruption episodes.
- Disaster recovery site compliance through fully automated, scheduled
tests of an organization's disaster recovery system without disrupting
the production environment or existing data protection.
- Provisioning and deployment in days from start of customer management,
replication and reporting.
"With Bell's Business Continuity Service, small and medium sized businesses get the peace of mind that their data will be protected and available when they need it, at a price that meets their budgets," said Paul Rowe, Vice-President Marketing and Product Development for Bell Business Markets.
