Quorum: Driving Uninterrupted Business Processes

Data plays a vital role in the way businesses run today. This has placed increased importance on IT protection, whether in the form of data backup and recovery or maintaining high availability of services. “While data is a critical asset that no organization can afford to lose, data recovery alone in the modern technology landscape is no longer an acceptable central focus,” opines John Newsom, CEO at Quorum. With the massive adoption of data intensive technologies such as virtualization, cloud, and Infrastructure as a Service, IT’s focus is now shifting to “not just having their data backed-up and recovered, but to see that it is made available at a pace ensuring uninterrupted business operations in case of a disaster.” Addressing all the modern business requirements concerning data recovery is San Jose CA-based Quorum. The company’s patented onQ system of products and hybrid-cloud services— also known as Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)—go beyond traditional data protection. “We enable organizations to use their protected data and applications on alternate clone systems ‘instantly’ in the event that one—or even all—of the servers (physical or virtual) fail,” reveals Newsom.

Quorum’s onQ Flex keeps up-to-date copies of the operating system, applications, and data files on local and cloud appliances, ready-to-run recovery nodes, and virtualized server clones. It combines ‘Disaster Recovery on Demand’ and ‘Instant Disaster Recovery’ capabilities to deliver priority recovery of mission critical servers. “This offers the same benefits as a replicated data center, in a simple and efficient way and at an affordable cost,” says Newsom. In case of a disaster, a recovery node is created from the latest backup, ‘on demand,’ facilitating business operations to continue as usual. onQ Flex allows businesses to prioritize based on the level of protection they want for each server. It enables administrators to assign different recovery levels to each server in an IT environment. This varying level of protection allow businesses to meet their Recovery Time Objective (RTO) needs,where within the set time and service level, the operations are recovered.