New CDP service offers automated and web-based data recovery ensuring that online businesses can recover information during hardware failure.

Hostway Corporation, a web services provider, yesterday announced the availability of an advanced data protection (CDP) service that enables dedicated server and enterprise customers to protect their critical data from anywhere on the Internet. The company says that the new CDP service offers automated, secure backup and web-based data recovery, ensuring that online businesses and corporations can quickly recover key information in the event of hardware failure, data corruption or a host of unforeseen circumstances.

It further states that it has partnered with R1Soft to deliver a complete portfolio of cost effective, customizable backup solutions. The company avers that services range from managed backup and recovery to a high-performance, dedicated CDP Center capable of protecting large numbers of servers with customer administered policies and web-based recovery. It claims that all the solutions provide the ability to schedule restore points on an ongoing basis, perform selective file or folder recovery, and true bare metal restore capability to quickly recover an entire server after a system disaster.

''Effective data protection and recovery is a critical component of every company's reliability and disaster planning. Our new backup solutions protect customers' data with point-in-time snapshots and rolling retention,'' said Todd Benjamin, Director of enterprise hosting at Hostway. ''By combining superior software with our state-of-the-art network and data center infrastructure, we make possible levels of reliability that our customers couldn't hope to achieve on their own.''