PlateSpin Forge Provides Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery for Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises
New recovery package provides affordable, out-of-the-box protection for 10 or
more server workloads
TORONTO, Ontario, June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PlateSpin ULC, a
Novell company, today announced new packaging options for PlateSpin Forge(TM)
that make the innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance even more
cost-effective for small and medium-sized enterprises that need to protect ten
or more server workloads.
PlateSpin Forge is a purpose-built consolidated recovery solution that
includes pre-packaged and preconfigured hardware, software and VMware
virtualization technology to accelerate deployment, simplify configuration and
reduce total cost of ownership. Small and medium-sized enterprises now have
the flexibility to purchase PlateSpin Forge in either a 10 or 25 workload
protection model to more cost-effectively match their recovery investment with
the size of their data center and the number of physical or virtual server
workloads they need to protect in the event of downtime or a disaster.
"Small and medium-sized enterprises have unique disaster recovery
requirements," said John Stetic, Senior Director, Product Management,
PlateSpin. "They need affordable recovery solutions that can be quickly and
easily implemented and administered with limited IT staffing resources. Using
embedded VMware virtualization technology, PlateSpin Forge offers SMEs a
unique combination of simplicity and cost-effectiveness for protecting a broad
range of physical or virtual server workloads in the data center. With new
flexible packaging and pricing options tailored specifically to SMEs,
PlateSpin Forge puts full workload protection and recovery within reach for
all organizations regardless of size or recovery budget."
Customers can purchase a PlateSpin Forge 10-workload model and add
additional protection in increments of five workloads to ensure that their
recovery solution can grow with their business. The SME marketplace is
increasingly embracing cost-effective recovery solutions, like PlateSpin
Forge, that use virtualization to make recovery in the event of a disaster as
simple as powering on a virtual machine. Virtualized recovery technologies
also align with broader goals and strategic initiatives that aim to make IT
environments more flexible and easier to manage.
"In addition to application and infrastructure decisions, DR technology
investments should be included in discussions regarding IT consolidation
efforts such as server, storage, and data center consolidation," according to
Stephanie Balaouras of Forrester Research (Forrester, "Building the Business
Case For Disaster Recovery Spending," April 3, 2008). "Many of the
technologies that facilitate application recovery and limit data loss for
disaster recovery also enable these key initiatives. The strongest example is
server virtualization. Server virtualization not only facilitates server
consolidation and the deployment of networked storage, but it also facilitates
the rapid restart of applications at a recovery site when used in conjunction
with replication."
With the introduction of the PlateSpin Forge 10-workload model, authorized
PlateSpin resellers have an even greater opportunity to provide their SME
customers with affordable, out-of-the-box disaster recovery solutions and
value-added services.
"Virtualization technologies have made significant inroads into businesses
of all sizes from SME through to the largest Enterprise organizations," said
Peter Pollari, Business Manager, Virtualization Practice, Ingram Micro. "In
particular, SMEs have really begun to embrace the benefits of virtualization
and the productivity gains it brings to their business. Now with the new 10-
workload model, the PlateSpin Forge hardware appliance affords SMEs all the
same workload recovery protection elements that an Enterprise user would
traditionally expect in a robust, easy-to-use, out-of-the-box solution. As a
business grows, the PlateSpin Forge appliance can also grow to accommodate
changing recovery needs. Ingram Micro is excited to be able to build the Forge
product range into its Virtualization Solutions offerings to the reseller
community."
Nation-wide New Zealand distributor Datastor works with clients to address
a broad range of IT needs including enterprise software and storage solutions.
"In the New Zealand market, we talk with a lot of small and medium-sized
businesses who can't afford the high cost of traditional recovery solutions or
the specialized resources needed to support them," said David Rosenberg, Sales
Director, Datastor. "The PlateSpin Forge 10-workload model provides a
comprehensive out-of-the-box disaster recovery solution at an affordable
price, making it ideal for our SME clients. With this new offering, PlateSpin
has again shown its commitment to respond to the needs of the marketplace and
to work closely with partners to grow their business."
Providing complete system and data protection in an easy-to-implement
package that includes hardware, storage and software, PlateSpin Forge
dramatically reduces the time and specialized technical resources needed to
plan, provision and deploy a recovery environment, enabling SMEs to begin
protecting workloads in days rather than months.
PlateSpin Forge now includes a new centralized management console that
provides management and "single pane of glass" visibility across multiple
PlateSpin Forge appliances, reducing administrative efforts and bringing
peace-of-mind that all workloads are protected in the event of an outage.
For the key features of PlateSpin Forge, visit
http://www.platespin.com/products/forge/features.aspx.
To view the PlateSpin Forge Flash demo, visit
http://www.platespin.com/products/forge/forgedemo.aspx.
Product Packaging and General Availability
The PlateSpin Forge appliance ships with two pre-packaged configurations
to protect either 10 or 25 workloads out-of-the-box. Package pricing includes
hardware, storage and software costs. Customers who purchase the 10-workload
protection model may purchase additional workload protection in quantities of
five workloads for greater flexibility and to accommodate future growth.
PlateSpin Forge is now shipping worldwide. For more information on how to
purchase PlateSpin Forge and applicable pricing in your region, contact your
local authorized PlateSpin reseller or visit http://www.platespin.com/forge.
PlateSpin, a Novell company, provides a unified suite of solutions to
help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization
in the data center. PlateSpin's Workload Portability(TM) technology liberates
workloads from hardware platforms, allowing data, applications and operating
systems to be migrated over the network between any physical or virtual host.
The ability to migrate, protect, provision and optimize server workloads
across physical and virtual environments helps enterprises reduce cost,
complexity and risk. With integrated workload profiling and planning,
PlateSpin solutions improve the speed and quality of data center initiatives
and ease the burden of managing mixed IT environments. For more information,
visit http://www.platespin.com.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers the best engineered, most
interoperable Linux* platform and a portfolio of integrated IT management
software that helps customers around the world reduce cost, complexity and
risk. With our infrastructure software and ecosystem of partnerships, Novell
harmoniously integrates mixed IT environments, allowing people and technology
to work as one. For more information, visit http://www.novell.com.
Novell and PlateSpin are registered trademarks and PlateSpin Forge and
Workload Portability are trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. *Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other
third-party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE PlateSpin ULC
Kerry Adorno of Novell, +1-781-464-8042, kadorno@novell.com; or Amanda Munroe
of SHIFT Communications, +1-617-779-1816, amunroe@shiftcomm.com, for PlateSpin
ULC
