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CONTINUITY SOFTWARE LAUNCHES
Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) Solutions Provider Premiers
RecoverGuard™ Software and Announces First
Boston, MA (June 11, 2007) –
Continuity Software™, a leading provider
of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions, today announced it
has launched operations in the United States, with a Boston
headquarters office and a New York sales office, to support the data
protection needs of U.S. customers.
In conjunction with the RecoverGuard software is a
groundbreaking Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solution that
detects gaps (i.e., configuration errors) and infrastructure
vulnerabilities in real-time, in order to eliminate the risk of data
loss or corruption in the face of a natural or manmade disaster.
RecoverGuard’s unique ability to
understand the relationships and interdependencies between IT
infrastructure elements and the disaster recovery (DR) replication
environment ensures that all production configuration changes are
successfully applied to the remote hot site.
With RecoverGuard, customers can now
automate and validate the most critical aspect of their DR
environment – ultimately ensuring their business protection goals. "The business risk
associated with non-recoverable recoveries is almost incalculable,”
said Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group (ESG).
“If standard local backup recoveries
fail at a rate of 20% plus, remote recoveries are probably
two-to-three times that - and finding out during a real-time crisis
is no way to live.” "Until now, there has simply been no realistic
visibility into a full remote recovery operation. With all the
interdependencies and such limited test capabilities, even the
largest companies in the world really don't know if they will be
able to recover from a significant outage,” added Bob Laliberte,
analyst, ESG.
“Products such as Continuity Software's
RecoverGuard are long overdue, and should help shine light on the
faults that keep critical recoveries from happening, well before a
crisis." Continuity Software also
announced today, its first “We at Fusion Risk
Management recognize that while the vulnerabilities and threats
companies face are endless, the funds to address them are not,” said
David Nolan, founder and CEO, Fusion Risk Management.
“By working with Continuity Software,
we can offer a means by which customers can ensure that their
information protection and recovery program is effective, efficient,
and economical.” “Today, few would argue the
need for a reliable and verifiable disaster recovery infrastructure
and strategy.
However, while most IT executives will
state that they indeed have one in place, when asked if they truly
trust it to protect their information and applications in the face
of a natural or manmade disaster, many will reluctantly admit that
they hope they never truly need to find out,” said Gil Hecht,
founder and CEO, Continuity Software.
“Our conversations with these customers
are simple.
We offer them the opportunity to run
our software for 48 hours, after which we will provide a report
detailing all of the problems in their DR environment.
100%
of the time, we are able to identify vulnerabilities and ‘gaps,’ or
areas where when changes were made to the production environment,
they were not appropriately implemented at the DR site.” The Continuity software
RecoverGuard No-Risk Assessment offers customers the opportunity to
deploy RecoverGuard on up to 30 servers, for 48 hours.
At the end of the 48 hours, a
comprehensive report is delivered to the customer that details such
areas as the complete topology and navigational model of the
datacenter and DR environment, a thorough description of the risks
and threats to the production and DR environments, an all-inclusive
list of optimization opportunities, as well as an Hecht continued, “At this point, given the choice
between inevitable data loss if faced with a disaster versus the
implementation of a non-intrusive, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and
cost effective disaster recovery management solution, the decision
is easy.” RecoverGuard software is
generally available.
It is sold on an annual license basis.
Continuity Software Management Expertise The Continuity Software management team is
comprised of seasoned professionals possessing in-depth experience
with the unique challenges inherent in building a world-class
business continuity strategy, in the public, private, and government
sectors.
Gil Hecht, Founder and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) Gil Hecht has served as CEO
of Continuity Software since founding the company in 2005. He
is responsible for setting the vision for the company in order to
maintain its leadership position in the Disaster Recovery Management
(DRM) space.
Prior to founding Continuity Software,
Mr. Hecht was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Savantis Systems,
the leading provider of database virtualization solutions.
Before founding Savantis, Mr. Hecht
served as vice president of business development for Aladdin
Knowledge Systems (NASDAQ: ALDN), a market leader in Software
Security. He originally joined Aladdin as a research and development
(R&D) manager, during which time he was responsible for the
conception and development of several of its successful commercial
products.
Steve Santos, Vice President of Sales
With over 20 years of
senior sales management experience in the IT industry, Steve Santos
currently serves as vice president of sales for Continuity Software.
Prior to joining the company, Mr.
Santos held the position of vice president of sales and channels at
Revivio, Inc. (acquired by Symantec), the world’s leading provider
of continuous data protection (CDP) solutions.
During his tenure at Revivio, he was
responsible for leading the company’s go-to-market strategy, and for
driving its direct sales, channel program, and OEM partnership
efforts.
Prior to Revivio, he spent over five
years at Dothill Systems, a publicly traded, leading network storage
provider, where he was responsible for the North American sales
organization and was instrumental in helping the company grow to
$250M in revenues.
Previously, Mr. Santos was vice
president of sales and marketing for East Coast Electronics, a
custom, application-server startup, where he oversaw direct and
channel sales and was responsible for growing revenues from zero to
$37M in just 5 years.
Doron Pinhas, Vice President, Field Operations
Yacov Zakai, Vice President, Research
& Development Yacov (Yaki) Zakai has
served as vice president, research and development, since joining
Continuity Software in 2005.
Prior to joining the company, Mr. Zakai
held the position of vice president, research and development (R&D)
of NexPerience, a leading innovator in Mobile User Experience
Assurance solutions. Prior to joining NexPerience, Mr. Zakai held
senior R&D management positions with Mercury Interactive (NASDAQ:
MERQ), a global leader in Business Technology Optimization, where he
was responsible for leading the development efforts for several of
the company’s most successful product lines; and with Motorola
Semiconductor.
About Continuity Software Continuity Software™ is a
leading provider of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions.
Its revolutionary RecoverGuard™
software mitigates data protection and disaster recovery (DR) risks
by detecting replication infrastructure gaps and configuration
vulnerabilities between customers’ primary production and disaster
recovery sites.
With RecoverGuard software, customers
can now confidently validate their DR strategy, and ultimately,
ensure their business continuity and data protection goals.
For further information, please visit:
www.continuitysoftware.com,
email:
info@continuitysoftware.com, or
call: 888-782-8170 ( Media Contacts: Continuity Software, inc: PR@ContinuitySoftware.com
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"The
business risk associated with non-recoverable recoveries is almost
incalculable. If standard local backup recoveries fail at a rate
of 20% plus, remote recoveries are probably two-to-three times that -
and finding out during a real-time crisis is no way to live.” Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). |
