It is not always fiscally feasible or even possible to deploy and manage an offsite disk-based appliance in a remote data center. In some cases, the up-front capital expenditure may be prohibitive. In other cases, there is no customer-owned remote data center available or little to no IT time available to manage the appliances providing disaster recovery protection for backup.

The partnership between ExaGrid Systems and ATScloud allows customers to dramatically reduce — or even eliminate — tape both onsite and offsite through a premier secure Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solution – Secure BDRcloud. Secure BDRcloud enables customers to replicate their onsite backups to the BDRcloud infrastructure. Located in a fully managed Tier IV data center environment, BDRcloud provides a high level of built-in security, protecting data from disaster. There are no up-front capital costs and no power, cooling or space requirements for your data center, and nothing for your IT staff to manage for disaster recovery. A DR plan is not a complete plan without testing. In fact, the DR plan can and should be tested with sufficient failures, and retested to ensure validity.