Arcserve will be announcing a new cloud-based disaster recovery service that, for the first time, makes enterprise-grade data recovery times and data recovery points affordable for SMEs, midsizes and the public sector, offering an excellent business opportunity for its channel partners, whose customers may lack WAN/bandwidth, have large data sets, and those with limited resources that need secure offsite backup and disaster recovery without additional infrastructure to support growth.

The new service brings disaster recovery to sectors that were previously priced out of enterprise grade disaster recovery, but which are just as dependent on timely data for their continuity. Arcserve is also introducing a new UK datacentre to underpin the service in EMEA.

With downtime measured in minutes and seconds becoming increasingly disastrous for data-dependent organisations there is a surging demand for DRaaS. However, since Enterprise grade disaster recovery services are charged at enterprise pricing, there has been a massive gulf between demand and supply. By closing that gap, Arcserve has created a solution for a problem for a significant number of organisations across EMEA. This in turn creates a substantial business opportunity for its resellers and service providers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

As the first backup-to-failback solution born exclusively in the cloud, Arcserve’s new release does not require an appliance as it transfers data directly to, from and between cloud storage. This accelerates deployment, lowers on-premise complexity and supports extremely stringent SLAs.