High Availability and Disaster Recovery Verification Expert, Continuity Software, Fortifies Private Cloud Vulnerability Detection

NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuity Software™, the world's leading provider of disaster recovery (DR) and high availability (HA) monitoring and management solutions, today announced the general availability of RecoverGuard version 5.3 (v5.3) featuring significantly expanded heterogeneous storage, compute, virtualization and database support, as well as vulnerability detection for host-based replication platforms*.  Further improvements in speed, scalability and ease-of-use have also been added.  The RecoverGuard enhancements provide customers with the industry's most comprehensive end-to-end solution for ensuring data protection and application availability, as well as disaster recovery (DR) in the private cloud.  

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Specifically, RecoverGuard v5.3 enhancements include:

• Heterogeneous Cloud Storage:
  • NetApp MultiStore (vFiler)
• Heterogeneous Cloud Computing Infrastructure:
  • VMware vSphere
  • Oracle Solaris Zones
  • HP-UX server partitioning
• Host-Based Replication Solutions:
  • Oracle Data Guard

• General Platform Support:
  • Oracle Solaris ZFS
  • Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS)
  • Microsoft SQL Server Backup

• Faster and more Scalable:
  • 100% 64-bit
• Ease-of-Use and Configuration:
  • Single Port Windows Scanning using Microsoft Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
• Improved Integration Pack:
  • ServiceNow
  • Enterprise Scheduling Systems
  • Business Service Import from external data sources
• Application Improvements:
  • Dashboard Facelift
  • Process SLA Management  

"For many organizations, a move towards private cloud computing will enable considerable benefits such as longer-term cost savings, improved scalability and flexibility and may even introduce time-to-market advantages," said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage Software, IDC (www.idc.com).  "That said, such a move also introduces new layers of abstraction and automation within a data center and thus could result in an additional level of complication and risks. RecoverGuard software helps to mitigate against this by providing the ability to identify many of the potential exposures and thereby enabling the IT department to proactively deal with risks."

"As data and applications are the lifeblood of most enterprise business organizations, ensuring their protection and availability must be priority #1.  However, designing, deploying and effectively managing a private cloud infrastructure is a very complicated endeavor – made all the more so because of all the changes and updates that are made within virtually all data centers on a continual basis," said Gil Hecht, Founder and CEO of Continuity Software.  "RecoverGuard v5.3 provides private cloud customers with the peace-of-mind that their data and applications will be fully protected and available at all times.  Even the smallest gap or vulnerability can be found and eradicated long before it poses any real threat to the business."

* The complete Continuity Software Support Matrix can be found at: http://www.continuitysoftware.com/products/support_matrix.  

About Continuity Software

Continuity Software is the leading provider of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) monitoring and management solutions.  Trusted by many of the world's largest companies, its award winning RecoverGuard software mitigates downtime and data-loss risks, via its patent protected Analytics (Gap Detection) technology and vast (>4,500 signatures) community-based knowledge base.  With RecoverGuard, customers can be confident that their data is protected, systems are recoverable and business continuity goals will be met or exceeded.  For further information, please visit: www.continuitysoftware.com, email: [email protected], or call: +1-888-782-8170 (United States) or +972 (3) 6470888 (Israel). 

© 2011 Continuity Software.  Continuity Software, RecoverGuard and DR Assurance are trademarks of Continuity Software.  All other brand and product names in this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

SOURCE Continuity Software Inc