VMware
© Business Wire 2008
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization
solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today
announced that VMware Site Recovery Manager, a pioneering
new product for disaster recovery management and automation,
will be available for order next week with general availability
expected to follow within 30 days. VMware Site Recovery
Manager, which is part of VMware's suite of management
and automation products for the datacenter, leverages
virtualization to simplify business continuity planning
and testing, and reduces the risk and complexity associated
with executing disaster recovery.
Traditional recovery plans leave organizations exposed
to significant risk of extended downtime because they
are laborious to set up, time-consuming to maintain,
and extremely difficult to test. As a result, only a
subset of important systems can be adequately protected.
For example, traditional disaster recovery plans for
datacenters require extensive documentation consisting
of hundreds of pages of instructions contained in runbooks
that are nearly impossible to keep accurate and up-to-date.
The complexity of the manual recovery processes in these
runbooks makes it difficult for organizations to reliably
recover within their recovery time objectives. Traditional
non-virtualized systems have extensive dependencies
on hardware configurations, which make consistent automation
of the process extremely difficult if not impossible.
"Effective disaster recovery has been a significant
challenge for many organizations," said Raghu Raghuram,
vice president, products and solutions at VMware. "With
the delivery of VMware Site Recovery Manager, VMware
removes hurdles associated with disaster recovery planning
and implementation. Through our innovative disaster
recovery testing, management and automation capabilities,
we bring predictability back into the hands of IT and
help eliminate risks associated with human error."
Site Recovery Manager works seamlessly with VMware Infrastructure,
VMware VirtualCenter, and replication software from storage
partners to provide integrated disaster recovery management
and automation. It provides:
- Integrated management of disaster recovery plans.
Create, update and document recovery plans directly
from VMware VirtualCenter.
- Non-disruptive testing of disaster recovery plans.
Execute automated tests of recovery plans in an isolated
testing environment using the recovery plan that would
be used in an actual failover. Hardware configuration
dependencies are eliminated and testing can occur
without impacting production systems.
- Automated failover and recovery. Automate execution
of the recovery process, eliminating many of the slow
and unreliable manual processes common in traditional
disaster recovery.
Regulatory compliance and our drive for providing exceptional
services to our customers is a large factor for our
interest and involvement in VMware Site Recovery Manager,"
said Donald Wilkins, director of IT at Navicure Inc.
"Site Recovery Manager allows us to far exceed
our recovery objectives in an automated manner and lets
our IT staff do disaster recovery the right way--the
only way."
"Brit Insurance chose VMware Site
Recovery Manager after evaluating the advantages offered
by centralized management and complete automation of
disaster recovery plans over physical alternatives,"
said Brett Hockly, group infrastructure services manager
at Brit Insurance. "As a long-term VMware virtualization
user, our team is clear on the benefits of virtual infrastructure,
having a disaster recovery solution we can test without
jeopardizing our live systems makes our decision to
standardise on VMware clearly correct."
VMware Site Recovery Manager leverages customers' investment
in storage replication software from VMware's leading
storage partners including 3PAR, Dell, EMC, FalconStor,
Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, LeftHand Networks and
NetApp. VMware is working with partners across its storage
partner ecosystem to ensure that customers can use Site
Recovery Manager with their storage system and software
platform of choice. As a result of this collaboration,
customers can confidently and easily deploy advanced
disaster recovery solutions with the full support of
both VMware and their storage provider. Read what partners
are saying about VMware Site Recovery Manager.
VMware (NYSE:VMW) is the global leader in virtualization
solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers
of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating
expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security
and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion, more
than 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware
is one of the fastest growing public software companies.
VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and
on the web at www.vmware.com.
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