VMware’s vCloud Air to launch database DRaaS, pipe in more clouds
April 16, 2015
Exclusive VMware will add database-backup-as-a-service to its vCloud Air cloud in June, the company’s veep and general manager of hybrid cloud Bill Fathers has told The Register.
The service will be based on technology VMware acquired last year along with Continuent, a provider of clustering, replication and disaster recovery services for databases. The new services, due to launch in June, will mean it becomes possible to replicate databases into vCloud air, sync them, and move operations into the VMware cloud as a disaster recovery option should that become necessary.
In a chat with El Reg, Fathers said the new service will offer the chance to “slice and dice databases by the second” for very granular recovery, and added that the new service is typical of the kind of feature he hopes to add to vCloud Air, in that it makes it easier for VMware users to adopt hybrid cloud.
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