Data Recovery Digest

With more than 43,000 companies and enterprises currently under their wing, EVault, a Seagate Company, is one of the industry leaders in data backup, recovery and cloud-based services. Responsible for driving numerous data centers, telcos and cloud architecture, the research and development team certainly has their hands full. This hasn't stopped them from making advancements and improvements to their own products, and it certainly hasn't prevented the company from receiving the recognition it deserves.

Leader in Disaster Recovery

In a report released in early 2014, Forrester Research, Inc., one of the most prominent research firms in the industry, highlighted 12 of the most prominent Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) providers in operation today. The thorough reported factored in numerous criteria, including current product lines, future business strategies and market awareness, in order to name some of the key figureheads in several different areas of disaster planning and recovery. When the final outcome was released, EVault showed some pretty impressive results amongst a highly competitive and innovative marketplace.

Specifically, EVault tied for the second highest rating regarding its primary DRaaS option, while it received the highest score available for future planning. The company also tied for the second highest rating regarding overall value and organizational vision. Of the 12 top IT providers, Forrester Research credited EVault with "one of the most progressive guarantees with its service."

EVault's president and general manager, Terry Cunningham, was ecstatic when he received the news. He was quoted as saying: "We believe this report is a great acknowledgement of how EVault is focused on making customers successful. EVault gives customers peace of mind - whether it be the ability to recover their data, their mission-critical systems, or ensure continuity of the IT operations, we partner with them so they have one less thing to worry about."

Top Features of the EVault Cloud Disaster Recovery Service

EVault offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based tools and utilities aimed at data protection and restoration. For starters, their tiered service levels offer the ability to recover data within a period of 4, 24 or 48 hours, depending on the customer's exact service, and they maintain a dedicated team of recovery specialists that are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Moreover, EVault provides "zero-downtime" failover support, which compensates for scheduled maintenance as well as unexpected service outages. This allows users the ability to access resources pertaining to disaster recovery, backup and protection whenever it is needed. Users can even initiate service via a smartphone or tablet PC for maximum accessibility.

Unmesh Kulkarni, vice president of the Customer Experience Management division at EVault, offered his opinion on the organization's service offerings. “EVault offers a true cloud-based disaster recovery service. Our team of experts help customers with DR planning, testing and recovery, over and above our standard cloud-connected server backup & recovery service.” He said.

The official report, which is titled The Forrester Wave TM: Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service Providers, Q1 2014, is available online in its entirety. For more information on EVault, including product offerings, online technical support, past projects, current goals, industry partnerships and future objectives, please visit their official website, www.evault.com.