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3PAR power disaster recovery-as-a-service at ultraspeed
May 2010 by Marc Jacob
3PAR announced that leading UK managed hosting provider and 3PAR Cloud-Agile partner Ultraspeed has deployed the 3PAR InServ® F-Class Storage Server in its new carbon-neutral datacentre in Amsterdam. This new remote datacentre is a global Internet interconnection hub that uses leading-edge technologies and runs solely on renewable energy. Ultraspeed also stated plans to introduce new disaster recovery services as part of its 3PAR Cloud-Agile: ASSURED offerings, which leverage 3PAR Utility Storage and 3PAR Remote Copy for flexible, robust cloud-based disaster recovery.
Ultraspeed now replicates data from the 3PAR InServ at its primary London datacentre to InServ arrays deployed at its Amsterdam datacentre. In addition to weekly off-country backups performed at no additional cost, clients have the option to purchase daily off-country backups for all or select virtual machines (VMs) hosted by Ultraspeed. Ultraspeed is planning to launch additional disaster recovery-as-a-service offerings based on its 3PAR Utility Storage infrastructure—including the ability to bring up servers in Amsterdam within 45 minutes of a disaster resulting in a total site outage at its primary London datacentre.
Ultraspeed is renowned for its highly virtualised Diskless Infrastructure®, which is based on the managed service provider’s Diskless platform. The Diskless platform is specifically designed to enable customers to deploy multiple virtual servers on each physical server and is a compilation of horizontal best-of-breed architectures, including 3PAR Utility Storage. This Diskless platform provides end users with the ability to deploy and manage their diskless servers, connecting to a highly virtualised and centralised 3PAR InServ Storage Server in real time, without the limitations experienced with physical disks.
