Omnitech launches disaster recovery solution

MUMBAI, INDIA: Omnitech InfoSolutions Ltd., a Business Availability and Business Continuity solutions provider, on Monday announced the launch of 'Revive', a new initiative under its broad-based cloud services that can affordably implement disaster recovery plans of Emerging enterprises.

The new Disaster Recovery (DR) solution over cloud computing technology offers pay-per-use billing model, thereby reducing capital expenditure by eliminating the need of dedicated disaster recovery hardware and software, IT staff and other operational costs, said a press release.

Revive has the ability to take snapshots of the workload (OS, Application and Data) and recover it through a cloud-based model, the company claimed. A scheduled replication of production site workload takes place on OmniCloud in a highly secured environment through encryption.

In the event of a disaster, companies can have the critical business processes up-and-running by invoking COB (Continuity of Business) request. Resources on OmniCloud such as processing power, memory and storage, required to run the critical and predefined application load will be made available.

Emerging enterprises in India, on an average, spend nearly Rs 35 lakhs as an upfront technology investment for a basic captive traditional DR plan. This includes recurring annual expenses such as electricity, Infrastructure, maintenance, IT staff and other miscellaneous expenses.

Through Revive, emerging enterprises can now save up to 40 per cent of the overall costs for its DR plans, which will be reflected as an operational expense after deploying cloud technology.

Avinash Pitale, joint managing director, Omnitech InfoSolutions, said, “Indian entrepreneurs today recognize the importance of DR but are bound by financial constraints. This has been one of the key reasons to witness low acceptance on disaster recovery plans in India, resulting in negligence on required technology investments.”

He added that through the launch of Revive, the company sees a lot of traction coming from emerging enterprises opting for disaster recovery plans, as the new cloud-based offering will act as a cost efficient platform to enable their DR plans and protect the interest of its defined stakeholders spectrum without making an upfront investment on technology.

The launch of Revive is the first initiative undertaken by the company on a cloud platform. Moving forward, Omnitech expects to offer a gamut of cloud services to nearly 80 per cent of its existing customers in next three years by bundling its cloud offerings with multi-years contracts signed for its traditional technology offerings.

Omnitech is the first company in India to have multi-location DR sites based in Mumbai and Hyderabad. The company has been largely catering to large and emerging enterprise segments through DR and IT Managed Service offerings since last 23 years.