(Webhosting.info) Virtualised managed fail-over disaster recovery environment developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems and AMD, for mission critical applications.

Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, today announced the launch of its virtualised, managed fail-over disaster recovery environment, purpose built to deliver affordable business continuity to Australian business and Government customers.

The company declared that, developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems and AMD, the disaster recovery data centre will go-live this month. It stated that it’s an entirely virtualised platform, the environment will run Sun X64 servers based on AMD multi-core technology and will be housed in an ASIO certified data centre in Melbourne.

The company avers that until now, many companies have felt business continuity was an expensive extra and were risking financial loss by not having the right systems in place. Further states that now their virtualisation offers a robust and scaleable managed disaster recovery platform for business and Government customers to achieve one hundred per cent uptime without the need to invest in additional hardware.

With the launch of their hosting managed fail-over disaster recovery environment, the company says that it now owns the hosting service level agreement with its customers from beginning to end. This offers customers the unique advantage of dealing with one supplier bound by an end-to-end service level agreement in the event of a major disaster.

The virtualisation eliminates the need for customers to duplicate their hosting infrastructure and is an affordable business continuity approach, leveraging existing hardware and global load balancing technology to deliver the required levels of redundancy, claims the company.

“As more and more businesses move online they become 24/7 operators and pressure increases to deliver the necessary levels of uptime and security to meet customer, shareholder and compliance demands, especially in the event of a disaster,” said Aidan Tudehope, Managing Director, Hosting, Macquarie Telecom.