Disaster recovery - try before you buy

More cloud services providers are starting to rumble the fact that offering free time on a service is one of the best ways possible to demonstrate its capabilities. One of the latest to adopt this route is Databarracks, which has just started offering potential customers a free 30 day trial of its Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery platforms.

The freebie is being offered in recognition of the company becoming an official VMware vCloud Powered provider of public cloud services. 

Peter Groucutt, managing director at Databarracks, the company’s objective is to demonstrate it is easy to use cloud services. Most of its customers have built their on-premise environment using VMware, so as a vCloud Powered services provider he feels the company can offer a fast route to public cloud services and provide users with real value from cloud computing.

“That is why we are offering free test drives of both our Disaster Recovery and Infrastructure as a Service platforms,” he said. “The 30-day trial allows you to host up to five VMs with 100GB of SSD storage, as well as up to 200GB standard storage. Hosted from ultra-secure, ex-military nuclear bunkers; your data remains safe and you remain in control.

“The first and most simple cloud service businesses tend to adopt is Disaster Recovery. Tools like Zerto and Veeam which are built for VMware environments are an excellent way to replicate your workloads to a service provider. Our aim is to show IT departments how easy it is to integrate these time and cost-saving tools with your existing systems, without compromising on service or security.”

Groucutt stressed the advantages of staying with VMware for those businesses that have built their virtualised environment using VMware or are running private cloud services on-premise using vCloud. If such companies then decide to start using public cloud services, the most straight-forward way to do so is with a vCloud Powered provider. This provides a common platform and single view of all workloads, both internally and with the service provider.

“vCloud powered services give you enterprise-class security and support for all of your existing systems without recoding,” he said. “Businesses won’t need to modify existing applications in any way to be `cloud ready’.”

Groucutt predicts that hybrid models of cloud will be a more popular choice over moving entire infrastructures, in the initial instance: “

The free, ‘no strings attached’ test drive of Databarracks’ platform is available through the vCloud Service Provider Partner page, or directly by clicking here.