While it is impossible to stop or prevent a natural disaster such as hurricanes or tsunamis, it is possible for IT solution providers to recover the data of their customers in the occurrence of a disaster with the aid of disaster recovery products. There are a lot of disaster recovery products available but not all of them are truly effective.

Below are some of the best disaster recovery products that you need to know about

Data Center-In-A-Box

A great way for IT solutions provider to raise their customers’ capacity quickly is by compiling a small data center into a storage container. It is also a great way to hit the ground running after a natural disaster. These data center in a storage container are made up of servers, networking, storage, cooling equipment and power designed into regular 20 or 40-foot containers which makes it easy to transport to areas where local data centers are down or offline and require computing power. Notable sellers of this type of disaster recovery product include Dell, IBM, SGI, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Bull, and Oracle-Sun. A less popular type is the Wave2wave data-center-in-a-box but it has proven to be highly effective.

Pancetera Disaster Recovery Software (SmartMotion).

The SmartMotion virtual application replicates virtual machines straight to any cloud-based or physical location in one easy method thereby saving time and energy for IT solution providers. This automated disaster recovery product helps customers to also save money. This is because the Pancetera solution works with already existing data protection software to reduce acquisition cost. Data already saved on virtual and physical machines can be delivered to any desired NAS device, be it a virtual appliance in the cloud or a physical appliance.

Symantec BackupExec

The BackupExec by Symantec makes it possible IT solutions providers and their customers to back up their data directly into Symantec’s storage cloud. This is possible by simply storing servers and window based desktops over a secure SSL connection to the cloud. BackupExec is available in both appliance and off-premises versions for their numerous customers to choose from. This form of disaster recovery provides IT solution providers a faster and effective means of restoring data compared to traditional disaster recovery setup.

VMwareʹsvCenter Site Recovery Manager 5

This particular disaster recovery product is targeted at small businesses as VMware aims at making this product pocket-friendly to small businesses. Its virtual machines retail at a price of $500. It operates by using a mix of storage arrays to store, replicate and manage site recovery. It also does not utilize same time replication but updates every 15 minutes instead. This is a great choice for small businesses looking for a cheap and affordable disaster recovery product.

ioSafeʹs Shock Proof Drives

This is another disaster recovery product for customers looking for an affordable way to protect their data. These drives are capable of surviving salt water immersion, UV rays and can also survive a crush of more than 5,000 pounds.