As Hurricane Season Approaches

June 1 marks the beginning of hurricane season 2011. The U.S. is projected to have one of the most active hurricane seasons to date and as a result, businesses are enlisting disaster recovery services to protect business-critical data.

iland has established a high level of expertise in using Dell EqualLogic in testing and actual environments. FLD was able to save 3 hours and 28 minutes while its first test failover because of ilands ability to quickly bring the replicated environment online32 minutes, instead of the 4 hours it had before taken. In the subsequent test, cutover time was cut by an additional 12 minutes. In the case of a disaster, FLDs business-critical data could be accessible in less than a half hour. With Dell EqualLogic SANs as the backbone of ilands Continuity Cloud solution, iland and FLD were able to utilize Dell EqualLogics integrated failback feature to quickly synchronize the Continuity Cloud site back to FLDs production site.

FLD is all in all saving on its IT budget year over year and benefitting from Dell EqualLogic data replication. Current projections indicate that the company will save $320,000 over a three year period. This includes a 90% reduction in New Jersey related staff time, $30,000 in software costs, $40,000 in internet access costs, over 1,470 man hours and over $250,000 in hardware costs by avoiding a innovation upgrade and shutting down FLDs remote New Jersey office. The company ultimately has complete control over its virtual environment and failovers can be done from anywhere, including a home office.

About iland iland Internet Solutions, VMwares Service Provider Partner of the Year, 2010 for Americas, provides enterprise class hosted cloud infrastructure in data centers located in Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas and London. Our solutions include secure hosted environments for virtual servers and desktops, cloud-based disaster recovery, hybrid cloud using VMware vCloud Connector, and test and development clouds leveraging iland vCloud services.