Continuity Software

Northeast Utilities Deploys Continuity Software DRM Solution
April 1, 2008

"RecoverGuard scans Northeast Utilities' open systems DR environment nightly, ensuring that no inadvertent configuration changes might adversely affect recoverability status. When an issue isdetected, RecoverGuard delivers an alert, allowing Northeast Utilities to take action and ensure ongoing data protection, disaster recoverability and business continuity."

NE Utilities Deploys Continuity
April 2, 2008

"Northeast Utilities’ production and disaster recovery (DR) datacenters are large, complicated, heterogeneous, environments with a myriad of interdependencies. Its environment covers three states: Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and includes both UNIX and Windows servers, as well as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase databases. The datacenters support and protect business services across the organization including ERP, supply chain and customer relationship management, as well as both “off-the-shelf” and “home-grown” utility specific applications."

New England's Largest Utilities Company Deploys Continuity Software Solution
March 31, 2008

"Because Northeast Utilities' IT environment was so large, interdependent and mission-critical, it was not able to simulate an accurate DR test scenario by shutting its systems down cold. In other words, in the real world there is no such thing as a 'graceful shutdown' during a true disaster event."

Continuity offers DR service
March, 2008

"Continuity Software has joined the Software as a Service (SaaS) movement with the introduction of its Disaster Recovery (DR) Assurance service based on the company’s RecoverGuard DR testing and monitoring software. RecoverGuard detects replication infrastructure gaps and configuration vulnerabilities between a company’s primary production and DR sites in an effort to mitigate data-protection risks."

Continuity Software launches 'DR Assurance'
February 19, 2008

"Continuity Software has announced the release of its new DR Assurance service. This combines the capabilities of its RecoverGuard disaster recovery testing and monitoring software with the expertise of its disaster recovery specialists."

New England's Largest Utilities Company, Northeast Utilities Deploys Continuity Software Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) Solution
March 31, 2008

"Continuity Software's RecoverGuard, backed-up by its DR Assurance service, helps Northeast Utilities to maintain its uncompromised commitment to data protection, disaster resilience and business continuity, thereby ensuring its ongoing delivery of the region's most robust and dependable electric and natural gas services."

Vendors retool SRM aps
March 2008

"Some of the larger storage vendors focus their offerings only on replication, while smaller vendors are trying to provide a wider range of applicability. Companies like Continuity Software Inc., NetApp's Onaro and Symantec are focused on heterogeneous environments, while IBM concentrates on IBM-specific products."

Where Are They Now? A Look at Past Top 10 Startups
March 13, 2008

"Disaster recovery specialist Continuity Software has been amongst the busier startups on the Top 10 list, ramping up its sales efforts and unveiling a new version of its technology."

Continuity Software Offers Disaster Recovery Assessments for $15K; No Agents and a 48 Hour Turnaround
March 6, 2008

"More remarkable is what happens next. What is no surprise is that RecoverGuard always finds critical problems that impact the client's ability to recover. What is unusual is that Stone claims Continuity Software has a 100% conversion rate of clients who go from performing the assessment to buying the RecoverGuard software. Of course, when one considers that if one buys professional services from either EMC or Symantec to do a similar assessment, it would cost $150,000. Continuity Software claims that their assessment would not be as accurate or as fast as Continuity Software's $15,000 assessment so it is not a shock that companies are willing to lay out the $60K minimum to have RecoverGuard continually produce these reports."

Continuity to demo DR management
March 1, 2008

"According to Gartner, most organizations are not prepared for a business outage. Regional incidents, terrorism, service provider outages and pandemics can easily last longer than seven days."

Continuity automatically identifies disaster recovery vulnerabilities before data is lost
February 21, 2008

"You've all seen it - the secondary data center gets out of sync because of configuration changes at the primary site. You have a production environment that constantly changes. You manually apply changes to the secondary data center and you miss some changes. Continuity Software introduced a software-as-a-service offering last week that claims to help IT avoid this problem."

Continuity Software announces DR Assurance service
February 15, 2008

"As with all standard RecoverGuard installations, the DR Assurance service deployment typically occurs in just one hour, after which it immediately begins scanning the customer’s storage, database, servers and replication configurations for risks such as unprotected databases or database partitions, noncompliant replication configurations, data that cannot be recovered to a valid consistency point, and much more."

Continuity Software Announces Dr Assurance Service
February 12, 2008

"Continuity Software, a provider of disaster recovery management (DRM) solutions, announced the release of DR Assurance service."

Continuity offers DR management as a service
February 11, 2008

"Arun Taneja, senior analyst and founder of The Taneja Group consulting firm, says the IT industry is not blind to the problems inherent to DR strategies. 'RecoverGuard's ability to detect all configuration gaps and vulnerabilities, long before a disaster strikes, gives customers a proactive way to ensure their deployed DR strategy works as designed," says Taneja. "Moreover, the ability for customers to fully leverage RecoverGuard's capabilities as a service allows them to reap all the benefits of the solution, without any additional effort or re-allocation of resources."

Continuity Software turns disaster recovery into a service
February 8, 2008

"Services are really in vogue these days,' said Arun Taneja, an analyst with the Taneja Group. 'Clearly in some places services mean more than others, and disaster recovery management is going to be red hot over the next five years. Disaster recovery plans for most enterprises are a disaster in themselves."

Continuity Software RecoverGuard Wins SearchStorage.com and Storage Magazine's 2007 Storage Products of the Year Award
February 8, 2008

"In a small but emerging category -- DR testing apps -- Continuity Software's RecoverGuard stands out," the judges stated. "RecoverGuard is a sound investment in DR preparedness."

Continuity's RecoveryGuard Reveals DR Flaws
January 30, 2008

"Today's large IT environments are dynamic places; applications, volumes, and file systems are added, deleted, and reallocated on SANs on a daily basis. The disaster recovery plan, on the other hand, is updated and tested on an annual basis. As a result, most organizations think their data is better protected than it really is."

Disaster recovery shortcomings addressed by Continuity Software
January 14, 2008

"So last October, Cellcom deployed RecoverGuard, a disaster recovery management (DRM) tool from Continuity Software, to collect data on configuration gaps in the company's storage, servers and databases before problems began to rear their ugly head. The software is now configured to read Cellcom's infrastructure continuously and detect issues every day."

Partner Communications Deploys Continuity Software to Ensure Data Protection
January 14, 2008

"To protect its data assets, Israel-based Partner Communications consistently replicates its data to remote datacenters in order to help ensure data recoverability, business continuity and zero interruption of service in the face of a disaster."

A Nickel's Worth of Disaster
February 26, 2008

"Surveys of CIOs and IT managers suggest that business continuity/disaster recovery planning has moved to the front burner in the front office. Depending on the analyst , BC/DRP is either first or second priority (just behind cost containment). It makes sense."

So You Think You're Ready for a Disaster?
February 26, 2008

"Note two items in its boast: RecoverGuard and DR Specialists. That's right, Continuity Software is combining its existing products with its technical know-how to turn disaster recovery into a managed service! The company will offer its RecoverGuard software to detect configuration gaps and vulnerabilities in a business's DR plan and then mitigate the risks on a continual basis with its experts working in tandem with in-house or VAR staffers."

Continuity Software Announces DR Assurance Service
February 12, 2008

"We have been more than delighted with the customer response to our RecoverGuard software solution since its release. We believe it serves as confirmation that today's IT professionals view data protection, disaster recovery and business continuity as the cornerstones of any successful IT strategy," said Gil Hecht, Founder and CEO of Continuity Software."

Cell phone carrier picks startup Continuity Software for DR testing
February 14, 2008

"RecoverGuard found problems that Penner probably never would have discovered until they caused a failure, he said. Some require immediate attention, while others can wait a few days. But, he noted, RecoverGuard "doesn't fix the problem, it sends pop-up alerts and gives us reports for each week about what alerts are new and what alerts to take action on. We can set an alert for a known issue."
Before installing RecoverGuard, Partner Communications used to manually test its disaster recovery "when we had time," Penner said. "Now we do it on a daily basis."

RecoverGuard Analyzes Disaster Recovery Infrastructure for Vulnerabilities
November 20, 2007

"New features in the latest RecoverGuard release include the expansion of the Gap knowledge base to over 1,600 signatures; inclusion of a configuration wizard with auto-discovery and auto-detection features; a GUI dashboard display; and support for the scheduled E-mailing of trouble ticket summaries."

Continuity Software announces RecoverGuard v2.0
November 20, 2007

"The ability to continuously monitor and identify DR gaps will be very appealing to most IT executives, according to research firm, Illuminata Inc. of Nashua, New Hampshire. It is therefore likely that in the not too distant future, DRM solutions, such as RecoverGuard, will become a de facto standard for all business-critical computing environments, much like anti-virus software is today, Illuminata said."

Continuity Software launches 'DR Assurance'
November 19, 2008

"Based upon the success of the first release of RecoverGuard and the feedback we received from the field, we further simplified and streamlined the product's deployment process to support the needs of both our channel partners and direct customers, across all technical levels," said Gil Hecht, Founder and CEO of Continuity Software. "The configuration wizard, dashboard, reporting infrastructure and gap detection engine updates, now standard with every RecoverGuard deployment, provide customers with significant value. Customers can now detect and correct DR vulnerabilities faster and more easily than ever before, and consequently, confidently ensure regulations compliance, data protection and ongoing business continuity."

Disaster Recovery Is a Disaster
November 19, 2007

"Disaster recovery simply doesn’t work.” Scary words from Gil Hecht, CEO of New York-based Continuity Software Inc., who claims that at least 60% of all disaster recovery (DR) tests bomb. If he were alone in his assessment, you could dismiss his view as simply that of a self- interested vendor. But Sean Derrington, director of storage management at Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, Calif., says that in his company’s poll of data center managers earlier this year, half of the respondents said their DR tests had failed. The reason? Primarily, it’s you or your staff, says Hecht. “IT people make changes all day long to operational systems,” he says. While they do test the changes in their production environments, it’s almost certain they don’t test them from a DR perspective, he asserts, even if they make the updates to the DR systems themselves. Why not test the DR side? Hecht answers with an analogy: “The only way you can test an airbag in your car is if you hit a tree.” In other words, you can’t test your DR systems without a major disruption to your daily production environment."

Continuity Widens the Gap Minder
November 19, 2008

"Continuity Software has updated its disaster recovery management tool, expanding the productivity and audience of its software, which was designed to spot configuration differences between production and disaster recovery systems.

Version 2.0 of the start-up’s RecoverGuard includes a dashboard that the Israeli company said will now allow CIOs to monitor DR readiness, extending from the previous audience of database and storage administrators."

DRM solution helps customers detect and correct DR threats faster and more easily than ever before
November 16, 2007

"RecoverGuard has provided our customers with the ability to conduct most of the DR tests necessary on their data protection infrastructure, in a completely automatic, transparent and cost effective fashion,” said David Nolan, Founder and CEO, Fusion Risk Management, a leader in the IT Risk Program Management and IT Compliance Management markets. “The enhancements will provide customers with even faster and more convenient delivery of insight into their data protection and recovery environments, which will help them to respond to issues proactively – before disaster strikes, thus enhancing overall program maturity to ‘best practices’ levels."

Cellcom deploys RecoverGuard DR software
November 2, 2007

"Israeli cellular communications operator Cellcom has deployed Continuity Software's RecoverGuard software to support its disaster recovery plans. RecoverGuard identifies "configuration gaps" in the storage infrastructure that could compromise disaster recovery plans. The tool also identified terabytes of high-end storage that was being underutilized."

Cellcom Chooses Continuity Software
October 29, 2007

"Within the first day of deployment, RecoverGuard automatically scanned the Cellcom IT infrastructure, collecting data from storage assets, servers and databases. Using its patent pending detection technology, RecoverGuard quickly found configuration gaps in the infrastructure of varying types and severities. Issues were resolved in order of importance. The RecoverGuard solution is now configured to continuously scan the infrastructure to ensure ongoing protection against newly created vulnerabilities."

Cellcom Picks Continuity Software
October 25, 2007

"Due to the rapid growth of our infrastructure, we needed the ability to conduct all of the tests necessary on our data protection infrastructure, in a completely automatic and transparent fashion,” said Arie Dery, IT Infrastructure Department Manager, Cellcom. “After careful review of alternative vendors and technology solutions, Continuity Software RecoverGuard emerged as the best-of-breed solution able to meet our requirements.”"

8 'hidden gems' in data protection software
September 13, 2007

"Every storage administrator has an application or utility that stands out from the crowd as being unusually useful, easy to use or just plain effective in helping them do his job. These tools may or may not be cutting-edge, and they may or may not be backed by big advertising budgets or established vendors. What distinguishes them is that real users are finding them useful in their everyday lives."

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
September 27, 2007

"Gil Hecht, CEO of Continuity Software, says that this is the dirty little secret of the $44 billion disaster recovery business: "Ask someone responsible for disaster recovery or storage if they think their setup will work for real. They'll answer 'no.' It's like having a parachute that won't open." "

Pushbutton Disaster Recovery
August 28, 2007

"It is traditionally difficult for DR product vendors to create software tools that do not require consumers to conform to the vendor’s preferred methods for safeguarding assets. Using their tools usually requires you to conform to their methodology. RecoverGuard is completely agnostic in this regard. Therefore, whatever mix of hardware and software functionality you are using to replicate data for protection purposes, RecoverGuard will support it from a monitoring and management perspective. If you are looking to evaluate your state of disaster preparedness, or just want a single-pane-of-glass solution for monitoring your readiness on an ongoing basis, RecoverGuard is worth a look."

Pushbutton Recovery
August 28, 2007

"These guys aren’t doing geo-clustering like CA XOsoft or Neverfail, but they are doing something extremely important: providing the means to identify dependencies and visualize changes that affect DR processes that companies have set in motion to protect mission-critical apps and their data."

Top 10 Storage Startups to Watch
August 22, 2007

"Steve Duplessie, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, places the rate of failure of remote recoveries at 40 to 60 percent: "The business risk associated with non-recoverable recoveries is almost incalculable. If standard local backup recoveries fail at a rate of 20 percent plus, remote recoveries are probably two to three times that – and finding out during a real-time crisis is no way to live."

Storage Tip: Tools assist proactive disaster recovery testing
August 15, 2007

"Disaster recovery management no longer needs to be considered either impossible at worst or disruptive, inadequate, and overly expensive at best. You now have some tool choices available to help, and the tool that you select may very well provide some desirable side benefits as well."

Continuity Software to discuss data replication
July 30, 2007

"Despite the growing awareness of the need to protect corporate critical business processes and data against loss due to disasters, and the associated increase in resources allocated to meet the challenge, organizations are still facing obstacles in making sure that their DR objectives will be met," said Dan Yachin, research director, IDC EMEA Emerging Technologies. "The fact is, today most DR strategies will not work when put to the test. Enterprise data remains inadequately protected."

Start-up offers tool to validate disaster-recovery implementations
July 25, 2007

"The product, called RecoverGuard, offers end users visibility into remote recovery operations by detecting infrastructure gaps and configuration vulnerabilities between primary data centers and disaster-recovery sites. InfoStor Kevin Komiega writes that the main aim of RecoverGuard is to validate disaster-recovery implementations which, according to company officials, fail at an alarming rate."

Continuity Software Joins IBM Data Governance Council
July 24, 2007

"We are delighted to add Continuity Software to our roster of industry leading technology solutions providers, each of whom have demonstrated an impressive level of dedication to solving customer data governance challenges," said Steven Adler, program director, IBM Data Governance Solutions. "As organizations increasingly recognize the value of their data, responsible data governance is remaining a top priority for enterprises and companies of all sizes."

Continuity Joins Council
July 19, 2007

"We are honored to have been named to the Data Governance Council and look forward to joining with IBM and the other council members to continue its efforts to help clarify and resolve today's most prevalent data governance challenges," said Gil Hecht, founder and CEO, Continuity Software. "Together with the other members on the Council, we will help customers to ensure a consistent and reliable enterprise view of their data in order to improve their confidence in decision making, their ability to comply with internal governance and external compliance regulations, as well as their data security."

Continuity Joins Council
NoJuly 19, 2007

"BOSTON and HERTZLIA, Israel -- Continuity Software™, a leading provider of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions, today announced it has joined the IBM Data Governance Council. The group, which was formed by IBM in 2005 along with dozens of leading corporations, institutions, and technology solution providers, is a global effort to develop a ‘blueprint’ of common solutions for challenges that apply to security, privacy, trust, and corporate compliance issues."

Continuity Software joins IBM Data Governance Council
July 19, 2007

"“We are delighted to add Continuity Software to our roster of industry leading technology solutions providers, each of whom have demonstrated an impressive level of dedication to solving customer data governance challenges,” said Steven Adler, program director, IBM Data Governance Solutions. “As organizations increasingly recognize the value of their data, responsible data governance is remaining a top priority for enterprises and companies of all sizes.”

“We are honored to have been named to the Data Governance Council and look forward to joining with IBM and the other council members to continue its efforts to help clarify and resolve today’s most prevalent data governance challenges,” said Gil Hecht, founder and CEO, Continuity Software. “Together with the other members on the Council, we will help customers to ensure a consistent and reliable enterprise view of their data in order to improve their confidence in decision making, their ability to comply with internal governance and external compliance regulations, as well as their data security.” "

Tools to fine tune your backups
By Jacob Gsoedl
July 16, 2007

"RecoverGuard from Continuity Software Inc. monitors and reports on disk-to-disk data protection using a signature-based approach to ensure that replication and snapshots complete successfully. Unlike Illuminator Inc., Continuity Software is focused on the disaster recovery market rather than the DPRM market. "

Continuity Software launches US operations
June 12, 2007

"Continuity Software, the Israel-based provider of disaster recovery management solutions, has announced that it has launched operations in the United States, with a Boston headquarters office and a New York sales office. In conjunction with the US company launch, the company formally introduced its RecoverGuard replication infrastructure gaps and configuration vulnerabilities detection solution."

Continuity Mines the Gap
By Tim Stammers
July 3, 2007

"Out of sync can easily mean out-of-order for DR systems, and Continuity says that customers are unaware that this is the usual state of play, because the complexity of testing of DR systems means that it is completed only infrequently. Practically speaking nothing works. 75% of DR systems are out of sync, said Continuity CEO Gil Hecht. Continuity offers a $15,000, 48-hour trial service, with a money-back promise if its RecoverGuard software cannot find any system errors. So far it says it has tested many systems, and has not yet had to return any cash."

Data storage startups emerges from stealth
By Beth Pariseau
July 3, 2007

"Ultimately, I think they'll wind up getting acquired by someone like EMC or IBM. I don't really see theirs as a standalone product," Webster said. However, as with Pivot3, he said the storage industry should get ready for new faces in this area, too. "I think metrics and reporting will remain a hot area -- especially for someone who could build instrumentation like this around energy efficiency."

Data storage startups emerges from stealth
By Beth Pariseau
July 2, 2007

"The product, called RecoverGuard, is a disaster-recovery monitoring and reporting tool. It is far from the first product of its kind. Onaro, for example, has had a tool on the market for at least a year -- but the secret sauce, according to Hecht, is in the company's "gap engine", which proactively identifies over 1000 "signatures" of gaps in the data protection and disaster recovery process, from broken links to forgetting to add a new volume to a replication set. So far, the "signatures" have been collected for EMC Corp. and Network Appliance Inc. arrays, with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and IBM to follow."

Continuity Mines the Gap
By Tim Stammers
July 2, 2007

"The company has released software that it says will raise the alarm when changes to production systems are not copied across to disaster recovery systems.

Out of sync can easily mean out-of-order for DR systems, and Continuity says that customers are unaware that this is the usual state of play, because the complexity of testing of DR systems means that it is completed only infrequently."

Startup makes Disaster Recovery works
By Paul Shread
June 14, 2007

"The company's RecoverGuard software does for disaster recovery processes what Onaro does for storage area networks (SANs): detect problems before they occur and fix them.

Continuity Software lets prospective customers deploy RecoverGuard on as many as 30 servers for 48 hours, after which the company generates a report detailing the topology and navigational model of the data center and DR environment, a description of the risks and threats to the production and DR environments, a list of optimization opportunities, and an SLA analysis. "

Startup makes Disaster Recovery works
By Paul Shread
June 13, 2007

"Continuity Software claims it can help disaster recovery work better — and the company won't charge prospective customers a dime if it can't help them.

The Israel-based disaster recovery management (DRM) company announced its move into the U.S. market this week, opening its U.S headquarters in Boston and a sales office in New Yorkquot;

Startup makes Disaster Recovery works
By Paul Shread
June 12, 2007

"Hecht (CEO) says the company has yet to find an environment it can't find problems in.

"Given the choice between inevitable data loss if faced with a disaster versus the implementation of a non-intrusive, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and cost-effective disaster recovery management solution, the decision is easy," he said. "

Startup makes Disaster Recovery works
By Paul Shread
June 12, 2007

"Continuity Software lets prospective customers deploy RecoverGuard on as many as 30 servers for 48 hours, after which the company generates a report detailing the topology and navigational model of the data center and DR environment, a description of the risks and threats to the production and DR environments, a list of optimization opportunities, and an SLA analysis."

Continuity Opens US Offices
June 11, 2007

"RecoverGuard software is a groundbreaking Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solution that detects gaps (i.e., configuration errors) and infrastructure vulnerabilities in real-time, in order to eliminate the risk of data loss or corruption in the face of a natural or manmade disaster. RecoverGuard’s unique ability to understand the relationships and interdependencies between IT infrastructure elements and the disaster recovery (DR) replication environment ensures that all production configuration changes are successfully applied to the remote hot site. With RecoverGuard, customers can now automate and validate the most critical aspect of their DR environment – ultimately ensuring their business protection goals."

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Product Spotlight - Continuity Software
June 11, 2007

"Every so often, I see a software package that comes along that makes me stand up and take notice. Continuity Software's RecoverGuard is a software application that I think would fit well into any one's Disaster Recovery Strategy. When I speak to clients about disaster recovery, one of the more unpopular questions I ask is "Are you 100% sure you will be able to recover in the event of a disaster?" Most of the time I get a very uncomfortable and half-hearted, "I think so". "

Continuity Software Helps VARs Fix Disaster Recovery
By Josef F. Kovar
June 11, 2007

"Customers say they test their disaster recovery systems, but they don't pull the plug at the production site, Nolan said. "Continuity Software gives you the ability to identify weaknesses and points of failure, and lets you do something about them," he said."

Continuity Software tackles DR testing
By Kevin Komiega
June 8, 2007

"Bob Laliberte, an ESG analyst, believes there is a definite need for DR testing systems. "Why wouldn't you invest in a system to monitor your multi-million dollar disaster-recovery environment that your business depends on? At least that way when you come in to work and see the light on, you can fix the problem immediately, instead of waiting for the next disaster-recovery test," he says."

Continuity Software aims for better disaster recovery
By Chris Mellor, Techworld
June 8, 2007

"Until now, there has simply been no realistic visibility into a full remote recovery operation. With all the interdependencies and such limited test capabilities, even the largest companies in the world really don't know if they will be able to recover from a significant outage. Products such as Continuity Software's RecoverGuard are long overdue, and should help shine light on the faults that keep critical recoveries from happening, well before a crisis.."

Continuity Software hunts Route 128 for new HQ
Efrain Viscarolasaga, Mass High Tech
June 8, 2007

"All it takes is one bad bit of data in a remote database to screw everything up," said Steve Duplessie, a senior analyst with The Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. in Milford. "This (disaster recovery management testing) is going to be very popular."