iland Presents 'Disaster Recovery in the Cloud' Case Studies at Spring World 2010

HOUSTON, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- iland™, a Premier Partner in the VMware® Service Provider Program, today announced its participation in Disaster Recovery Journal's Spring World 2010, the world's largest disaster recovery conference. iland will showcase customer success stories that demonstrate proven strategies for using private cloud-computing resources as the foundation of a successful disaster recovery plan.

Visitors to the iland booth (#400) will learn about the flexible iland approach to implementing a cloud-based disaster recovery plan through discussions with iland cloud architects, live diagramming of each attendee's infrastructure, and case studies of customers that have successfully implemented the iland Continuity Cloud© solution.

"Our participation in Spring World 2010 offers attendees the opportunity to hear the accomplishments that their peers have achieved across all vertical sectors," says Dante Orsini, VP, Business Development at iland. "This will provide confidence on how to meet 2010 IT business and budgetary goals, as well as a better understanding of how iland can help eliminate large capital expenditures for securing data and replace them with a predictable, monthly operational expenditures by using the iland Continuity Cloud.

Real World Case Studies Highlight Cost Savings and Improved Asset Management

The iland customer success stories featured during the conference will emphasize the quantifiable benefits of disaster recovery in the cloud:

• A Fortune 100 company, whose traditional disaster recovery provider solution would have cost $1.7M over three years, leveraged the iland cloud-based approach to save over $1.4M.
• A non-profit that converted $100K of capital expenditures into operational expenditures of just over the cost of colocation alone by using Dell® EqualLogic® SAN-to-SAN replication.
• A healthcare company that saved more than $150,000 over three years by eliminating capital expenditures for SANs, servers, software licensing and colocation costs as well as the staff management time needed to replicate their production environment.

The iland Continuity Cloud

The iland Continuity Cloud is specifically designed to provide cost-effective disaster recovery to enterprises of all sizes using private cloud resources. It ensures business continuity with an agile cloud-based infrastructure that's resistant to catastrophes and helps businesses recover quickly when disaster strikes. iland provides not only replication targets for customer data, but also the entire infrastructure solution - including redundant, stand-by resources based on industry-leading VMware solutions in six high-availability, cloud-computing datacenters across North America and Europe.

iland customers can take advantage of SAN-to-SAN or VMware Site Recovery Manager and other software-based replication technologies to ensure unplanned downtimes are minimized and data is secure in the iland Continuity Cloud. iland is also a Certified Dell Enterprise Architecture Partner with SAN environments built exclusively for Dell EqualLogic SAN customers. This makes iland an ideal data replication and recovery partner for Dell EqualLogic SAN users.

About iland

iland is a provider of cloud computing infrastructure with high-availability datacenters specifically designed for cloud computing in Boston, Washington D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, and London. As a partner of VMware and other industry-leaders, our infrastructure enables organizations to go beyond the cloud computing buzz and realize tangible business benefits including reduced and predictable IT costs, streamlined and simplified management, and a nimble infrastructure that lets you adapt with ease to changing business priorities. For more information, visit www.iland.com.

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