Business Continuity

"With our old system we had to re-boot at least one server a week, usually at the most disruptive time. In the two years since Alliance Technologies set up our virtualized infrastructure using VMware, F4Labs servers and a Fiber Channel SAN, we have not had a single minute of unplanned downtime, not one! "

COO, IT Support Company, Toronto, Ontario

Overview

Keep Your Business Running Non-Stop with a Business Continuity Solution from Alliance Technologies

Can your business afford any disruption of IT services? Thousands of data centers experience significant services interruptions every year, at the cost of lost business revenue and lost data -- or worse. And while disasters and unplanned downtime get the big headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of the majority of service downtime.

Business Continuity has become a vital ingredient of IT strategies in a world where businesses need to operate 24 hours a day. The disruption of IT services can be fatal to a business.

Whether it's a fully hosted secondary infrastructure or an in-house solution, our experts will help you meet your Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Security, Data Protection or Compliancy challenges.

  • Do you have a Disaster Recovery Plan?
  • Can you recover any computing system off-site?
  • Is your "data at rest" protected - is your company at risk of becoming a headline?
  • Are you protected from inappropriate web use?

With class leading Virtualization, Replication, Compliance, Data Encryption, Web Monitoring and Network Security technologies at our disposal, Alliance Technologies are pleased to offer our clients innovative solutions that ensure Business Continuity and provide an effective Disaster Recovery capability.

Zeus for High Availability and Performance of Web Applications

For organizations dependent on web based applications or on delivering web based services, ensuring availability of these applications and services is a critical component of their business continuity and disaster recovery planning.

By implementing a Zeus software solution, Alliance Technologies will allow your organization to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust and highly available web infrastructure.

Solutions from Zeus Technologies include:

  • ZXTM GLB - A Global Server Load Balancing solution that provides business continuity and improved customer experience by enabling failover and load balancing across globally-distributed datacenters and allows organizations to host business critical services from multiple locations.
  • ZXTM - An Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that dramatically improves network and web-enabled applications making them faster, more reliable, secure and easy to manage.
  • ZXTM VA - the power of ZXTM and ZXTM LB in a virtual appliance.
  • ZXTM LB - A sophisticated load balancer and high availability solution with high performance SSL and content compression.

Click here to learn more about solutions from Zeus Technologies.

VMware for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

VMware’s virtualization products give you the means to eliminate planned downtime, deliver high availability, and be better prepared for disaster recovery. Virtualize your data center and make it easier to build solutions for the following:

  • Data Protection, including non-disruptive backup and restore processes
  • High Availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime
  • Disaster Recovery with hardware independent recovery

Business continuity solutions from Alliance Technologies leverage the capabilities inherent in a virtualized environment. By taking advantage of advanced features available in VMware Infrastructure and VMware Site Recovery Manager, innovative yet cost effective solutions from Alliance Technologies provide effective, implementable and manageable business continuity and disaster recovery protection that today’s information dependent organizations need.

Click here to learn more about a VMware based Business Continuity solution from Alliance Technologies.

In addition to VMware’s virtualization tools, Alliance Technologies offer a full range of services and complimentary technologies that can be deployed as either point solutions or, to compliment and enhance an overall business continuity solution.

Business Continuity Services

Disaster Recovery Planning

If, like most organizations you have concerns that about your Disaster Recovery plan, or lack of one, we can help. Alliance Technologies experts can work with you to develop a Disaster Recovery plan that compliments, not disrupts your business. Contact us to discuss how we can help you.

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure

Don’t have or don’t want a secondary site and back up IT infrastructure? With Business Continuum, you will be able to bring up your virtualized servers hosted on state of the art hardware in a "tier 1" data centre. Whether the outage is due to a key server going down or, a potentially longer term cause such as a fire or flood, Business Continuum will ensure your business keeps running.

Ask Alliance Technologies about Business Continuum a cost effective way to enjoy the benefits and protection of a secondary site.

Network Security & Protection


ContentKeeper -- Web Monitoring and Filtering



Alliance Technologies is proud to partner with ContentKeeper Technologies - an industry leading Internet security and threat management organization that provides enterprises with a range of fault tolerant, secure, flexible and highly powerful network solutions. It is designed for small, medium, large and enterprise environments.

Learn more about Web Security - ContentKeeper...


Fortinet -- Secure Gateway



Fortinet's FortiGate is the new generation of secure gateways that enable enterprises and service providers of all sizes to obtain the highest levels of security and application level control over networked traffic. Built from the ground up by Fortinet, FortiGate systems start with a purpose-built hardware platform for unmatched performance. And by consolidating critical security technology and services into a truly integrated system, FortiGate delivers more effective security, notable cost savings, and a smaller environmental footprint.


PerfectMail -- Spam Filtering



The Spam Problem - Spam and spam related malware pose a significant risk and cost to business. There are three categories for which spam poses a threat to your organization -- Time, Risk and Resources.

The Spam answer? Implement PerfectMail the innovative, next-generation anti-spam solution, available as either a physical or virtual appliance.

Learn more about e-Mail Security - PerfectMail...


KEMP Technologies - Load Balancing



If your website or intranet is critical to you organization, an accessible, secure and continuously operating site is the key to your success. With a powerful ADC or load balancer from KEMP Technologies, Alliance Technologies provide your business with a high-value, reliable infrastructure appliance that will significantly improve your web server performance, reduce costs and increase your customer’s web experience.

KEMP’s LoadMaster family of affordable, yet feature rich application delivery controllers and server load balancer appliances automatically and intelligently manage user traffic and applications, to deliver website integrity for small-to-medium sized businesses (SMB) and managed service providers.

KEMP products optimize web infrastructure as defined by high-availability, high-performance, flexible scalability, ease of management and secure operations - while streamlining IT costs.

Contact us today to learn more.

Data Protection & Replication


F4Labs -- Replication Appliance



The F4Labs SaRA (Storage and Replication Appliance) is specifically designed for the small to mid size enterprises that need a cost effective replication solution. Fully compatible with VMware, and with a full range of drive options for either capacity or I/O performance, F4Labs SaRA can be deployed as a centralized storage solution to a VMware infrastructure or, as a replication gateway.

For organizations without a secondary site, F4Labs SaRA can be used in conjunction with the Business Continuum service.

Contact us today to learn more about F4Labs SaRA and find out how you can implement a cost effective replication strategy.


Spectra Logic -- Data Archiving and Encryption



Lost tapes make unwanted headlines and headaches for companies around the world. If those companies had encrypted their tapes, then their data would have been absolutely secure -- without keys, data cannot be accessed. Encryption is the solution -- and you can implement it without breaking your budget or your network with the affordable and straightforward Spectra Logic BlueScale Encryption. For more on Spectra Logic’s range of Tape and Disc archiving solutions contact us today.


KOM Networks -- Compliancy and Archiving



Designed specifically to allow you to meet the increasing requirements of highly regulated archiving and compliance needs without sacrificing your business requirements; KOMpliance provides you with everything you need to archive your data pre-installed, pre-configured and ready to add to your network. Contact us to find out more about how the KOMpliance can help you meet your compliance challenges.