While Disaster Recovery is something you hope never to use, with well tested business applications becoming the life blood of our business processes, end to end Disaster Recovery and business continuity plans do not just make good business sense, for more and more businesses they are becoming a legal and insurance requirement.

Businesses who have addressed the DR issue have normally done so by implementing either a:-

• Lower cost, traditionally unreliable, extended recovery, Cold Standby model where the customer syndicates hardware with a DR Services company at a 3rd party Data Centre or delivered onsite in a van.
• High cost, traditionally reliable, instant recovery, Hot Standby model where the customer duplicates their production hardware and licensing environment in a secondary Data Centre providing a “hot standby” solution which mirrors your production environment.

At velos-IT we have created a different approach with our lower cost, reliable, fast recovery Inflatable DR service which delivers the best of both historic models to you the customer.

Inflatable DR provides an offsite "Live" but "Reduced Size" version of you're your Production environment, where transaction logs are replayed and application / configuration changes are mapped to the "Reduced Size" environment keeping your Inflatable DR system up to date. When Inflatable DR is invoked velos-IT map your configurations and applications from the "Reduced Size" system onto a Syndicated Production environment in the same secondary Data Centre and you are back online within a short timeframe, with up to the minute data.

Inflatable DR simulates Hot Standby recovery at Cold Standby prices therefore delivering the best of worlds to the SMB market place.