The cloud was key to heightened trust in their DR environment.

It was great to talk to one of the Cloud DR leaders, Morgan Van Wely. He runs IT at UHF RFID semiconductor leader Impinj.

The Challenge: Impinj had a secondary data center in another state (for locality) yet it was very difficult to maintain a prudent test/dry run schedule.

The Answer: Because of the difficulties of managing a remote site, Impinj elected to protect their most mission critical application in the cloud using CloudVelox for Pilot Light DR. The environment is replicated in AWS EBS storage volumes which can be easily ignited into production during tests or outages.

CloudVelox software automated key cloud DR processes, which made it much easier to set up and manage than a traditional secondary data center. Once the duplicate environment was deployed and continuous updates were made between the premise and the cloud, tests could be conducted at the push of a button.

The result: 1) Impinj substantially reduced DR costs; and 2) significantly increased trust in their DR environment.

Morgan heard about CloudVelox from cloud consultant Options I/O.

Stay tuned for an analyst report based on Ashar Baig's one hour interview with Morgan. For more information on CloudVelox check out the online Resource Center.