The Plan B 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……

Plan B provided cover for a number of customers effected by last week’s flood and subsequent fire at BT’s aptly named ‘Burne House’ exchange in London. Abdi Hersi commented that invoking the Plan B Service turned the incident into “the most enjoyable disaster ever”!

PC Pro Magazine have independently reviewed the Plan B Service and given it a nearly maximum rating in all categories, summarising ‘Plan B is an elegant solution for disaster recovery that will appeal hugely to SMBs. It’s affordable, easy to deploy and, above all else, delivers when it really counts.’

Plan B announce that they have passed their annual ISO27001 Information Security Management accreditation audit.

Kibble IT grateful of Plan B DR’s recovery solution that ensured its business continuity during an incident

Traditionally IT Disaster recovery (DR) solutions have been complicated and expensive, or cheap and ineffective. However, virtualisation technology is bringing about a revolution in IT DR, promising dramatically cheaper and more effective solutions.

One in three mid-sized companies in the UK does not have a disaster recovery plan in place for their website, according to recent research commissioned by managed hosting services provider NetBenefit.

Plan B’s managed Disaster Recovery service has been shortlisted for this year’s Business Continuity Awards in the ‘Most Innovative Solution of the Year’ category.

Bob Tarzey writes in Computer Weekly 24/03/09: ‘Plan B DR does just what it says on the box: for a fee of about £180 per month per server it will keep images of your servers off-site at its datacentre ready to fire up if a disaster should happen.’

Commenting: “We were very impressed by Plan B’s service”..”Simple setup and low startup costs, Offsite ‘rescue images’ are tested every day”.. “Excellent security.” Read the review….