Terremark, a cloud hosting and self-described managed IT infrastructure services company, has announced the addition of cloud-enabled disaster recovery services to their roster of virtualized services. The new “Virtualized Disaster Recovery solution”  will bring a new level of security and peace of mind to their enterprise-class customers. Utilizing their cloud computing platform, Terremark will provide secure, pre-provisioned computing to their customers during the crisis along with their capabilities that include advanced data replication and fully managed data center failover.

Terremark’s team of disaster recovery experts has time-tested the framework ensure it provides customers’ the proper protection for business critical environments, all the while allowing the customers to avoid the costs or complexity of maintaining all of their server and networking infrastructure at a secondary location. Terremark went on to explain that ShawCor Ltd., their energy service company, provides a flexible framework to reduce risk, consulting expenses, as well as implementation costs. Utilizing on-demand scalability in Terremark’s services has given ShawCor the ability to dynamically add capacity above the baseline requirement to meet emerging needs.

Paul Gibson, ShawCor’s IT Manager, stated:

“With operations that span seven divisions around the world, the consistent availability of our core applications are fundamentally critical to the success of our company. By utilizing the cost-effective, cloud-based disaster recovery solution Terremark offers, we were able to replace a large capital expense with an affordable and predictable recurring charge while maximizing the uptime for our mission-critical systems. Terremark’s solution provides full recovery capabilities in 15 minutes, which we have successfully tested from our Houston data center to the NAP of the Americas.”

In partnership with NetApp storage and utilizing VMware’s vSphere technologies, Terremark also offers application-based, host-based, and array-based replication options for their customers. The source servers can be either physical or virtual.  Terremark also offers managed security services  including “intrusion detection”, various firewall services, log aggregation, as well as on-demand backup services, managed by Terremark.

Patrick Rogers, Vice President of Solutions Marketing for NetApp, mentioned:

“With customers searching for disaster recovery solutions that provide quick, reliable access to their environments at a fraction of the cost, services based on proven technologies like Terremark’s cloud-based offering present an ideal solution. With NetApp’s industry-leading storage platform acting as a critical component for its offering, we believe Terremark’s cloud-enabled disaster recovery solution will quickly become a solution of choice for enterprises and Federal agencies.”

The collaboration of the various entities, Terrmark, ShawCor, and NetApp shows the planning involved in this new solution. The comprehensive “disaster recovery solution” covers all aspects: security, energy, data replication, and data center failover. The new offering is impressive and appears properly planned. All companies involved should benefit from the arrangement, which aims to provide a superior disaster recovery solution for enterprise-class cloud hosting customers.