When Storagepipe first launched in 2001, the company exclusively offered online backup (at that time called “managed backup”) services to help businesses meet their business continuity requirements.
In response to customer demand, Storagepipe has since expanded its services portfolio to include new, forward-looking cloud services that solve next-generation data protection problems. Some of these new services include things such as synchronization, data archiving, business continuity, high-availability and disaster recovery services.
In this interview with the Startup Success podcast, we discuss the specifics of our high-availability and business continuity services, and why these types of services solve important emerging problems for today’s SMBs.
Storagepipe takes best-of-breed enterprise business continuity solutions, and makes them available in an as-a-Service model. Without Storagepipe, these services would be inaccessible to SMBs because of this high cost and significant capital investment required for hardware, software and services.
Accessible Business Continuity for SMBs
With Storagepipe, everything is bundled together in a cost-effective way, and customers only pay for what they need. It’s another way that Storagepipe provides SMB technology buyers with the same level of VIP service that’s normally only offered to large enterprises.
With Storagepipe’s high-availability service, client systems are replicated to Storagepipe’s datacenter, and the client’s primary datacenter is monitored for health. In the event that the client’s primary datacenter goes down or becomes unavailable, operations can immediately switch over to Storagepipe’s datacenter. Storagepipe’s mirrored copies of the client’s servers will act as temporary emergency failover systems until the primary systems can be repaired and brought back into availability.
Large companies already operate redundant datacenters for business continuity and high availability purposes. However, small businesses with the same availability requirements simply could not afford this kind of backup and redundancy to maintain uptime for their own equally critical business systems and disaster recovery capabilities.
Storagepipe helps empower small businesses by providing them with these same capabilities, in a way that’s much more accessible.
To hear more about our high-availability and business continuity services, see this video.