Artisan Infrastructure's Continuity Engine Now Supports VMware Server

It’s been well established that cloud infrastructure can help optimize business process, as well as people performance, but that doesn’t mean cloud infrastructure specialists like Artisan Infrastructure (News - Alert) are content to rest on their technological laurels. On the contrary, the race to improve cloud technology and infrastructure—whether through technology innovations, partnerships, integrations, or all of the above—is as fierce as ever.

In fact, Artisan recently introduced enhancements to its IT Continuity Engine (ITCE) business continuity solution, most notably integration with VMware vCenter Server. As such, ITCE is now capable of delivering business continuity for VMware vCenter Server, protecting virtual machine-based applications from downtime.

“Our extensive experience and collaboration with VMware has provided us many valuable insights, allowing the delivery of this advanced solution for business customers running VMware vSphere and other products,” said Brian Hierholzer (News - Alert), CEO of Artisan Infrastructure. “IT Continuity Engine fills significant gaps in VMware vSphere data protection caused by architectural changes, mixed hypervisor deployments and complex environments that require deep skill sets.”

ITCE’s integration with VMware means VMware vCenter Server now have access to a high availability, disaster recovery solution that supplements or replaces native VMware business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions. This is a logical step for vCenter as Artisan Infrastructure’s ITCE core technology was the original technology used to protect the platform early on.

As such, ITCE is uniquely suited to protecting critical business systems against application, server, network, storage or on site failures. In addition, ITCE software is the only application-aware IT continuity solution for vCenter Server designed to mitigate downtime before it can impact business applications.

Other new features introduced to ITCE include application-aware remediation through integration with vSphere High Availability Clusters, continuous data protection (CDP), uninterrupted DR testing, simplified workflows and installation, accelerated and simplified recovery, and hardware agnosticism.