i365, a Seagate Company has expanded EVault Remote Disaster Recovery (RDR) Service to further extend i365’s Cloud-Connected storage offerings across multi-platform environments.

The company said that the enhanced Cloud-based disaster recovery managed service allows mid-sized companies to remotely protect and recover critical servers, applications and information running on a operating systems.

EVault RDR integrates with i365’s range of EVault Cloud-Connected storage management offerings to give Cloud-based backup and disaster recovery for SMB customers in both the US and Canada.

i365 said that the EVault RDR is a Cloud-based managed service that helps organisations quickly recover critical applications after a disaster by restoring their applications within an i365 data center.

The entire disaster recovery process is tested and documented, and it’s all managed by a team of seasoned disaster recovery experts.

EVault RDR service, which is an extension of i365’s Cloud-Connected EVault backup and recovery services, features a grid storage platform that provides redundancy and performance, high availability, virtualisation, and superior storage efficiency to dramatically reduce the cost of achieving world-class disaster recovery.

i365 products vice president George Hoenig said that small and mid-size businesses often overlook data protection and disaster recovery as key components of their business applications strategy.

"A holistic data protection framework begins with securely backing up and replicating data to a Cloud-Connected infrastructure," Hoenig said.

"The critical value of the framework lies in its ability to make data and operations securely and readily available to businesses from a remote solution in the event of a disaster.

"With EVault RDR, companies have a lifeline to a virtual copy of their data to keep the business running. The entire disaster recovery process is tested and documented, and it’s all managed by a team of seasoned disaster recovery experts."

The company said that the EVault Remote Disaster Recovery service is available now.