Cloudy disaster recovery outfit virtualDCS claims to be improving the speed at which its partners can restore, move, and consolidate data, after teaming up with Seagate.
The new Seagate Lyve offering, known as CloudCover Shuttle at virtual DCS, offers a fast and secure method of physical data transfer to avoid long transfer times dependent on internet bandwidth. The shuttle enables businesses to move their data quickly, securely, and simply from endpoints to the edge and the landing destination of the data.
Organisations that are seeding backup data, recovering data after a disaster, or carrying out hardware upgrades and Cloud migrations, can now access a physical data ‘shuttle’ service, without the need for capital expenditure and hardware purchases.
The shuttle offers a range of storage capacities and is delivered promptly, as well as being securely encrypted and tracked while it is being transported. Once the shuttle is returned, it will then undergo a full crypto-erase.
The new offering is an extension of the virtualDCS CloudCover suite of services, which enables virtualDCS partners and their customers to backup and replicate business-critical data on their terms.
Kurt Kiefer, Chief Revenue Officer at virtualDCS, said: “Our CloudCover suite is extremely popular, offering a comprehensive range of data protection services from full backups to near real-time failover of systems, as well as protecting against Ransomware and other cyber threats.
“Although data protected by the CloudCover suite can be recovered almost immediately, the ability for an organisation to fully restore and move data back to its own systems after a DR event often brings additional challenges. A stage that’s frequently underestimated by many is the reabsorption of the data back to its original location, or even to a cloud platform.
”Even though a few terabytes can be restored relatively quickly, for larger datasets it can take days, weeks, or even months and will completely saturate networks and internet bandwidth. CloudCover Shuttle addresses this challenge of repatriating data back to its origin in a timely, controlled, and secure manner,” Kiefer said.
Seagate Lyve Business Development Manager Steve Jones said: “virtualDCS is a leader in its field and a specialist in Veeam powered backup and DR services that’s always exploring how it can maximise data innovation. They identified that many organisations faced a problem around data logistics and time to data after recovering from a disaster, which until now has been a big industry challenge.
“Our new collaboration addresses this problem by providing one of the fastest, most reliable and secure data storage and transfer services giving a clear competitive advantage not only to virtualDCS, but also to their partners and customers.”
virtualDCS recently became the first UK owned channel first Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) to be named as a platinum service provider by Veeam. This followed virtualDCS also becoming the first UK-based VCSP partner to achieve the Reseller Ready competency from Veeam last year. This gives virtualDCS an official
