Just got done reading the funniest white paper ever, from our friends at Iron Mountain. It asks the question, “…what happens when the devastation is so fierce that it hits the backups too? Don’t panic.” Don’t panic? Really? I think you damn well better panic – about your career. You stashed your backup tapes so close to your primary data center that they got clobbered by the same natural disaster? C’mon man! Better update that resume. And while we’re at it, why on earth are you still using tape? Iron Mountain, whose business is storing tape, points out just how Read more…
Recovery-in-a-Cave
Filed Under: backup, disaster recovery, natural disasters, RaaS, Recovery-as-a-Service
Really?
Disco Stu has moved from Springfield to the world of backup and DR. Earlier this week, eVault announced 4-hour recovery times for their mid-size business customers. This is one of those mind boggling announcements that gets a lot of us in the business saying, “Really?” Because the thing is, in 2012, a 4-hour recovery time is terrible. They never explain if the 4-hour guarantee applies to any single system or an entire data center. In either case, eVault’s claim is just plain archaic. For the sake of comparison, nScaled offers customers a 15-minute RTO for any single system, and a Read more…
Filed Under: backup, cloud, enterprise grade, RaaS
Boston Fire leads to customer failover
You may have read about the fire in Boston yesterday that took out power for a section of the city. The power outage affected the Boston office one of our large disaster recovery customers. We protect 70 servers in 11 offices around the US for this customer. Our support guys were up late last night, getting the customer failed over so they could keep working through the interruption, so I haven’t had a chance to get the detailed story from them. I’ll post again when I have more news.
Filed Under: disaster recovery, RaaS, recovery, Recovery-as-a-Service
Hazard Insurance
Clusters of tornados last week and this week in the US Midwest once again bring one’s thoughts to the issue of insurance. There are undoubtedly many small and mid-size businesses in Harrisburg, IL that are hurting right now, having had their offices damaged or destroyed by the tornados that hit earlier this week. You can bet that those businesses, or their landlords, have insurance on the office buildings. The people who work at the businesses probably have homeowners insurance on their homes. But you can also bet that most of the businesses didn’t have a disaster recovery plan for their Read more…
Filed Under: disaster recovery, natural disasters, ROI, SMB
nScaled Closes Series A Investment
As you can imagine, we are very excited to announce that we just closed a $7M Series A round of financing! We were able to raise the money on the strength of our vision and our 2011 results. nScaled was a pioneer in recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) three years ago, when no one know what the heck RaaS was and everyone thought disaster recovery was a boring market, dominated by goliaths like Sungard and IBM, catering exclusively to huge customers who could afford to spend millions of dollars every year for redundant capacity. nScaled is now a leader in the suddenly hot Read more…
Filed Under: disaster recovery, financing, venture capital
