Server Replication provides customers with enterprise-class disaster recovery and data center fault tolerance.

Hosting.com, a provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions, recently announced the general availability of its Server Replication solution providing customers the ability to have a replicated virtual copy of their critical data in its secondary data center. The company articulates that true business continuity is now accessible with Server Replication - providing its Cloud and Dedicated customers a solution that keeps their business running with immediate remote operational capabilities and complete data protection.

It states that Server Replication delivers enterprise-class continuous availability for businesses requiring a regulatory compliant, automated failover and disaster recovery solution. The company claims that Server Replication allows customers to achieve a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 15 minutes or less and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of 5 minutes. It adds that in the event of a system interruption or failure, the replica automatically and seamlessly engages, ensuring continued access to applications and data.

Rebecca Baum, Hosting.com Server Replication Product Manager, added," As we continue to meet the requirements of the mid-level enterprise, we are seeing an increasing need for services that provide affordable disaster recovery and data protection solutions. Increasingly, organizations demand connected cloud infrastructures across multiple geographies to ensure uninterrupted application availability and profitability."

"VMware is excited about Hosting.com's Server Replication solution because it brings customers closer to the vision of the VMware vCloud Initiative, which is to enable customers to leverage public and private clouds in an integrated and compatible manner," said Jian Zhen, Director, Cloud Solutions, VMware. "Providing customers with the ability to replicate their virtual machines to a secondary Hosting.com datacenter for disaster recovery and business continuity requirements is an ideal use case for cloud computing."