The Plan B DR Service is now available directly in the US. Plan B, has licensed its technology to Weidenhammer, a US-based IT services company who are offering the Plan B DR service under the US brand name of vRescue.

The US Rescue Silo is operational and already protecting customers. Plan B are delighted with this initial move into the US and look forward to delivering the benefits already available to UK and European customers to US businesses through Weidenhammer.

Plan B launches virtualised disaster recovery service into US

Plan B, the fast growing UK based disaster recovery (DR) specialist, has launched its service in the US. This international expansion means that Plan B DR’s unique, enterprise class disaster recovery technology will be available for the first time, at an affordable price, to small and medium sized businesses across the US.

This move also coincides with Plan B DR’s rapid UK channel expansion with 20 new resellers now actively selling the DR service.

Plan B DR has signed a technology agreement with US-based IT services company, Weidenhammer, to licence and market its DR service under a US brand name, vRescue. Plan B will provide the training, technology, support and product development for vRescue. and has designed a 24/7 N+1 recovery facility, based at Weidenhammer’s data centre in Reading, PA.

Plan B DR will also work with Weidenhammer to build a new US partner channel and make vRescue the first guaranteed, managed DR solution for the 625,000 small and medium enterprises across the US.

Plan B DR’s virtualisation-based DR managed service is inexpensive, very simple to implement and is unique in guaranteeing to recover working servers, network and infrastructure - within minutes of a disaster striking. This enables organisations to rapidly restore business continuity of critical applications and data.

Ian Daly at Plan B DR said, “We are delighted to announce this expansion into the US with our partners Weidenhammer. We obviously see the US as a great opportunity for Plan B’s technology and the launch of vRescue enables us to provide the same great advantages of the Plan B Service locally within the States. We have been working hard with Weidenhammer on setting up vRescue and already have our fist customers onboard and being protected.”

John Weidenhammer, CEO, Weidenhammer said, “We are very excited about the opportunities for vRescue and our progress so far. Disaster recovery solutions have traditionally been too expensive or resource intensive for our clients to consider viable. Using Plan B DR’s underlying expertise, vRescue, will offer the US the first fully managed service that is cost effective and ensures business continuity of mission critical systems in the event of an emergency or system outage.”

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About Plan B

Plan B http://www.planbdr.co.uk offers the only affordable IT Disaster Recovery service guaranteed to recover fully working systems within 30mins. Plan B are a UK based company that offers its unique service directly and through distributors in Europe and through a joint venture in the US.

About Weidenhammer

Founded in 1978, Weidenhammer is an information technology firm providing innovative products and services that is celebrating 30 years of information ingenuity. Weidenhammer specializes in working with organizations to use information technology as a strategic tool for education administration, government, and diverse business industries.

With nearly 200 IT professionals in seven locations, Weidenhammer confronts one of the most critical and complex resources of business administration: information. Weidenhammer provides consulting expertise in the areas of Strategic Planning, Business Process Improvement, Application Development, Network Infrastructure, and Application Hosting. The Managed Services and Infrastructure Solutions Group supports a large client base through network and communications services and solutions that lower the cost and improve performance of IT infrastructures.

At the core of Weidenhammer’s approach to serving clients is a focus on achieving and maintaining the highest degree of alignment between clients’ business strategies and the appropriate application for information technology. To learn more, please visit; http://www.hammer.net