Axcient Appliance Instantly Recovers Virtual Images

ServerAlive works by launching a virtual server on a local Axcient appliance that customers can use until they get their physical servers up and running again. Once the server is up, the image and new data stored on the appliance can be migrated to that server.

ServerAlive, said Axcient CEO Justin Moore, is designed to be a complement to Axcient’s RapidRestore agentless backup service that is used by IT services companies to provide backup and recovery as a managed service.

IT organizations are reporting that they are having difficulty meeting their recovery point and time objectives. While new technologies that help them meet those objectives are increasingly becoming available, the challenge is funding new product acquisitions at a time when IT budgets are under pressure.

For that reason, Moore said Axcient chose to make ServerAlive a service delivered by the same appliance infrastructure that many its customer’s already have in place to facilitate data backup.