Managed Services
DBSi Releases First Business Continuity Bundle Exclusively For Small-Medium Business (SMB) Market
Common Sense Approach with Clear and Easy to Understand Objectives and Language
BETHLEHEM, PA, July 12, 2005 - DBSi, the leading regional provider of comprehensive Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Hosting Services, announced today the immediate availability ContinuityExpressTM. ContinuityExpress is a fully configured disaster recovery environment joining hardware, software, and services into one cohesive package for the SMB market and distributed IT environments of larger companies. Through ContinuityExpress DBSi simplifies the process of designing, testing, and rapidly implementing disaster recovery capabilities to ensure that companies using ContinuityExpress can continue to do business in the event of a natural or manmade disaster.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity is still one of the major “to-do’s” of SMB companies, but have rarely moved to the completed list. There are a variety of reasons for this, but most of them come down to limited time and/or resources, and the view that contracting with a disaster recovery vendor is complex and requires a skill set usually not found in a SMB.
SMB are not companies being run out of people’s garages. These are real companies who have significant impacts on our economy. SMB companies have the same exposures and needs as their counterparts in the Fortune 500, the difference is only scale. While publicly traded companies in the SMB market have even a greater need for disaster recovery capabilities due to Sarbanes-Oxley, nearly all SMB companies have the requirement to protect their IT systems and data from a natural disaster or malicious attack. SMB Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) will vary, but nearly all companies need to be up and running within hours or days after a disaster declaration to prevent or reduce lose of revenue. DBSi’s ContinuityExpress addresses this need and was built upon three basic concepts; ease of implementation, easy to understand contractual language with no hidden penalties or clauses, and scalability.
At Gartner Group’s Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) in September 2005 CIO’s cited new trends for 2006. One of these trends was that Disaster recovery and Business continuity have become important matters due to the recent catastrophic hurricanes that struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. Additionally approximately 50 percent of the attendees at MES stated that their executive management considered the discipline of business continuity management to be more important than last year
“DBSi has long recognized the role of SMB’s within our economy and the risks they face by not having sufficient DR capability and plans available to them”, said Robert Hicks, Chief Operations Officer for DBSi. “Continuity Express has been designed to remove the complicated language traditional DR vendors’ use when signing SMB customers; provide needed flexibility; and make implementing a DR plan virtually turnkey.”
ContinuityExpress is fixed priced at $895 per month and includes 10 high-end Windows or Linux servers; 2 terabytes of disk storage; high-capacity tape drives; fully redundant high-speed Internet access; Cisco firewall and VPN capability; 25 DBSi BackupMAILTM mailboxes for instant e-mail availability; fully configured workspace for up to 15 core-team staff members; one rehearsal per year with DBSi technical support to ensure readiness; and services to aid in the creation and maintenance of a business continuity/disaster recovery plan.
About DBSi
DBSi is a premier provider of highly available disaster recovery, business continuity, and secure managed hosting services. Headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, DBSi has provided customized solutions for mid-sized and Fortune 500 corporations around the world for over twenty-three years, and owns and operates multiple world-class recovery centers. Its high-speed fiber optic network provides seamless connectivity between its facilities and all metropolitan areas in the New York City to Philadelphia corridor. DBSi’s 24/7 monitoring and support team provide continual assurance that DBSi is prepared to respond to the needs of the most demanding customers. Additional information can be obtained from DBSi’s web site at http://www.dbsintl.com/
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