Business continuance and disaster recovery always sound great, that is, until management takes a look at the dollars involved. While it can be somewhat easy to justify the costs involved in providing complete duplication of a few key mission critical servers and applications, it becomes much more difficult to justify the next tier of applications requiring duplicate hardware for disaster recovery protection. Tha Business continuance and disaster recovery always sound great, that is, until management takes a look at the dollars involved. While it can be somewhat easy to justify the costs involved in providing complete duplication of a few key mission critical servers and applications, it becomes much more difficult to justify the next tier of applications requiring duplicate hardware for disaster recovery protection.That’s why PlateSpin was happy to announce the general availability of PlateSpin Forge, the company’s latest solution into the virtualization world that offers a disaster recovery hardware appliance for cost-effectively protecting and rapidly recovering server workloads in the data center.Since PlateSpin Forge was first announced in early December 2007, the solution has been deployed and tested hands-on by a select number of customers and partners as part of the PlateSpin Forge Early Access Program (EAP). The solution offers complete system and data protection in an easy-to-implement package that includes Dell hardware, storage and application costs. And by consolidating workloads onto the purpose-built PlateSpin Forge appliance, organizations can achieve a 25 to 1 workload protection ratio without incurring the expense of duplicate hardware and software licensing costs. This makes Forge an extremely affordable alternative to traditional recovery infrastructures and host-based replication solutions which typically require costly one-to-one hardware and software redundancy.“The early response from the market has been extremely encouraging,” said PlateSpin founder and CEO Stephen Pollack. “Users have praised the recovery appliance’s rich feature set and unique combination of ease-of-use and affordability.” “PlateSpin has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to offering customers innovative solutions to adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center,” said Pollack. “With PlateSpin Forge, the world’s first virtualized recovery hardware appliance, we are once again transforming the data center by making it easier and more affordable to implement, test and manage a virtual recovery infrastructure. In our work with clients, we kept hearing a lot of frustration with traditional recovery infrastructures that were cost-prohibitive, complex to implement and difficult to test. Our response was to bring to market a revolutionary ‘plug in and protect’ recovery hardware appliance that offers a dramatically simplified approach to disaster recovery, especially when compared to traditional backup and recovery solutions.” Software Development