Vision Launches Cloud Protection, Recovery Service

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

There’s another new player in the cloud protection and recovery space. Vision Solutions, which provides replication, availability and disaster recovery services and solutions, has launched its Cloud Protection & Recovery offering, which combines Vision’s Double-Take and MIMIX products into a service that cloud cloud service providers can use to accelerate their own cloud service practices.

As part of a cloud services broker practice, Vision’s CP&R recovery-as-a-service was designed with service providers in mind. While providing a "low-risk path to the cloud," the CP&R service also gives service providers a new offering to take to their customers—something customers are looking for, according to the company. The new service includes:…

1. A recovery-as-a-service platform that takes Vision’s technology and combines it with Apache CloudStack Edition to enable providers running Citrix (NASDAQ: CTXS) CloudPlatform or
2. Apache CloudStack the ability to offer customers a cloud-integrated recovery-as-a-service. Additionally, it’s built on Vision’s Double-Take real-time replication technology.
3. Metered usage that enables cloud providers to consume licenses in a pay-as-you-go model. According to Vision, this model reduces risks for cloud providers while helping them create cloud-based disaster recovery, high ability and migration solutions in the cloud.
4. A software development kit that provides access to APIs for custom integration of Double-Take into the provider’s cloud ecosystem. According to Vision, this will provide a higher degree of automation and reduce administration costs…

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