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Follow on Google News | Everybody Hi-5! DataFort brings high availability as a managed serviceEasy and Fast System Restores, Compliant Archiving and Data Recovery in a Highly Saleable Package
By: DataFort Ltd. DataFort is aiming Hi-5 at selected resellers and service providers who understand they can maximise business potential by leveraging off external resources and by adding this very powerful proposition to their portfolios. Thanks to DataFort’s strong focus on SLAs, compliance and client management, Hi-5 has the potential to quickly generate high revenues for the right partners. The service is also directly aimed at SMBs who wish to take advantage of high availability at a fixed, affordable monthly cost. In today’s economic and regulatory climate many organisations or departments (e.g. those that operate in an FSA-regulated environment or hold staff or patients’ records) need the ability to rely on a data strategy that provides them with high data availability; After a failure DataFort invokes the virtual server to replace the failed equipment so that productivity is not compromised. A technician can then resolve the problem with the production server and bring it back online. This is pretty much unheard of in an SMB solution; nobody offers this level of service to this market segment. ‘Many of our competitors today only provide a DIY solution where the service provider or even the end user is responsible for its purchase, installation and management,’ Hi-5 offers a number of tangible benefits including: • The peace of mind of a totally-managed solution with 24/7 support. The user and even the reseller do not need to worry about costly overheads and the need to learn how to manage and maintain a complex solution. For the channel this has a significant impact on margins; • Fast recovery both from a failed server and in the case of a disaster. DataFort can usually have a user back up and running from a server failure within 15 minutes, a huge difference from the tape backup strategies that most SMBs still rely on today; • Value: ‘Because DataFort manages all aspect of the Hi-5 service resellers only need to attend a three-hour training session in order to be ready to offer the service to their customers. The time-to-revenue is extremely short with Hi-5,’ continued Terman. ‘Organisations cannot wait for days to restore their data after a failure, nor can they have large gaps between snapshots because information is their lifeblood,’ said Keith Humphreys, managing consultant at EuroLAN. ‘Any offering that brings availability levels close to those of replication within the financial reach of a broader segment of the market is very well positioned to become very successful.’ # # # DataFort provides dependable and secure data protection services that offer enterprise-level functionality with a focus on security and reliability. Its software and services are used by thousands of organisations worldwide, ranging from SMBs through to large enterprises and local government departments. Every hour of every day someone, somewhere backs up with DataFort. The company was founded in 2000, is headquartered in Guildford, UK and has offices in London and New York. For further information please visit www.datafort.com or dial 0800 45 44 35. End
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