BIPs combines DRaaS and managed availability into a complete business continuity solution
DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 21, 2014–
Capital Continuity, a U.K. provider of replication, recovery and migration software for managed service providers (MSPs), announced it will offer its IT service continuity management solution to the U.S. MSP market.
Capital Continuity is unique among most Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) providers in that it also functions as a solution for managed availability. The company has proven success delivering solutions to international partners including Sungard and HP. Capital Continuity’s BIPs software also powers IBM’s SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery offering in North America and worldwide.
BIPs software was specifically developed for MSPs looking to offer complete continuity management to their clients through enterprise level replication, recovery and migration services for customers’ uniform or diverse environments.
The September 2014 Garter report Hype Cycle for IT Service Continuity Management describes IT service continuity management as “the consolidation of IT disaster recovery and high-availability management into a single cohesive management discipline.” As the report points out “despite its significant potential, however, many supporting technologies are still at a very early implementation maturity stage.”
“There’s a sharp increase in the need for near instant IT service resiliency in addition to traditional disaster recovery solutions,” said Lee Exall, Managing Director of Capital Continuity. “Today’s ‘always on’ service expectations mean that businesses need a solution that keeps critical systems and applications running at all times as well as a way to recover in the event of a catastrophe.”
BIPs gives MSPs the flexibility to support:
- On-premise, cloud or hybrid deployments
- Physical or Virtual Machines
- Any hypervisor
- Any storage vendor
Using BIPs software, MSPs are able to deliver:
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Enterprise operating system coverage
- Real-time ‘cross system/hypervisor/storage consistent’ replication
- Near instant system recoveries
- Full automation for protection, recovery and non-disruptive testing of systems
- Simple, nonintrusive DR testing facilities
Capital Continuity offers two versions of its BIPs software: BIPs-POD and BIPs Migrate.
BIPs-POD is a DRaaS software solution that integrates a service provider’s infrastructure for fully automated protection, recovery and testing for customer environments. The BIPs-POD solution is agnostic to the customer’s current or future, storage, server and hypervisor choices.
BIPs Migrate addresses the challenges for Cloud providers to consume their infrastructure seamlessly for a smooth and fast customer on-boarding experience. BIPs removes the risks of migrating physical and virtual systems to new technology platforms or Cloud environments. BIPs manages migration of Linux, mid-range UNIX and Windows environments, replicating complete operating system application and databases in a seamless and non-intrusive manner to any new environment.
BIPs does not use any Cloud compute resources during business-as-usual protection. Resources are only consumed when a customer would like to ‘spin-up’ a test or recover system. This reduces MSPs’ licensing costs and allows a buy-it-once-sell-it-many approach to cloud compute resources. In addition, MSPs are provided with a white-labeled portal to manage their client’s resiliency.
About Capital Continuity
Capital Continuity provides Business Interruption Protection software (BIPs) specifically developed for Managed Service Providers (MSPs). BIPs is a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and cloud migration software solution that delivers enterprise level replication, recovery and migration services for clients with uniform or diverse environments.
for Capital Continuity
Jamie Rudolph, 972-850-5858
jrudolph@ideagrove.com
