Arsenal Digital unleashes server-restore service

Storage management service provider Arsenal Digital Solutions Monday launched a server recovery service for small and mid-sized businesses that ensures business continuity.

At Storage Networking World, the company rolled out ViaRecovery, a service that enables a “bare metal” restore of file and application servers. In the event a server is lost, Arsenal will rebuild it with a mirror of its server operating system, applications and data and ship it within 24 hours to the customer.

Arsenal claims that it normally takes from one to 10 days to rebuild a server. For many branch and remote offices without IT staff, it could take more.

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Storage management service provider Arsenal Digital Solutions Monday launched a server recovery service for small and mid-sized businesses that ensures business continuity.

At Storage Networking World, the company rolled out ViaRecovery, a service that enables a “bare metal” restore of file and application servers. In the event a server is lost, Arsenal will rebuild it with a mirror of its server operating system, applications and data and ship it within 24 hours to the customer.

Arsenal claims that it normally takes from one to 10 days to rebuild a server. For many branch and remote offices without IT staff, it could take more.

ViaRecovery uses a preconfigured appliance installed at a customer’s office to capture snapshots of the operating environment of a server. The snapshots on the appliance are transmitted regularly to Arsenal’s data center with the company’s ViaRemote service. ViaRecovery will work with any IBM, HP or Dell x86 server.

The ViaRecovery appliance and the service are available now. The service starts at $100 per server protected.