Citrix releases Version 5.5 of its Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualized environments
Citrix Systems Inc. announced the release of Version 5.5 of its Citrix Essentials for
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Microsoft Hyper-V, a set of virtualization tools created with Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization software.
The big addition to this package is a program called Citrix StorageLink Site Recovery, which offers to create secondary off-site virtualized operating environments and tools to test the failover process. Using StorageLink, an organization can virtualize their operating environments. These virtualized operating environments serve as master copies that can be assigned by the administrator to run from the secondary site offered by StorageLink during a disaster. Additionally, all the data being stored at the primary site can also be copied to the data backup site.
StorageLink will be available in the Express and Platinum editions of Citrix Essentials for Microsoft Hyper-V.
SafeData announces data center move
SafeData announced that it moved its Boston data center to the SAVVIS BO3 Internet Data Center in Waltham, Mass, hoping to improve restore time and increase data availability. The new data center is SAS 70 Type II certified, offers power management capabilities and gives SafeData room to grow. Furthermore, the new data center has other disaster recovery features such as fire detection, HVAC, tier 1 connectivity and is staffed with on-site personnel 24 hours a day.
SteelEye announces partnership with EnterpriseDB for business continuity and data replication
SteelEye Technology Inc. announced it has formed a partnership with EnterpriseDB Corp. From this new partnership, Enterprise DB will offer SteelEye business continuity (BC) and data replication offerings as options with their Postgres Plus product line, which includes PostgreSQL, an open-source database management system. In return, EnterpriseDB will also offer two SteelEye products: LifeKeeper for Linux and Data Replication for Linux. The support for these new products begins immediately.
MaximumASP announces additional disaster recovery services
MaximumASP, a provider of Web hosting and managed IT services announced additional disaster recovery services for server and enterprise customers for added protection of their critical data. Additional DR services from MaximumASP include: automated data backups, Web-based data recovery, options for customers to schedule restore points and bare-metal restore.
GWAVA announces Reload 3.1 of its Novell GroupWise disaster recovery product
GWAVA Inc. announced its release of Reload 3.1 from Novell GroupWise. Reload 3.1 is a hot data backup and disaster recovery product for GroupWise email systems. The newest version features improvements in DR and data migration along with improved data recovery.
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