Vodafone UK Selects Neverfail to Offer Businesses a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Service for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Deployments
Vodafone UK today announced that it has completed a deal with Neverfail, a leading global software company providing affordable continuous availability and disaster recovery solutions. Vodafone business customers are now offered the reassurance that when IT outages or disasters impact their organisation’s IT infrastructure, BlackBerry® Enterprise Server customers can continue to access business critical information and remain in touch with key contacts via their BlackBerry smartphone.
In today’s business environment access to email whilst on the move is a key requirement for many organizations. Losing email access, even for a short time, can have drastic consequences for businesses. In the case of a company’s internal IT system failure the Vodafone Neverfail High Availability Service provides uninterrupted access to key services so that a company’s employees can continue to send and receive email, browse the web and access information through mobile applications using their BlackBerry smartphone.
The Vodafone Neverfail High Availability Service monitors the health of a company’s email and data transfer environment, including the server hardware, the network infrastructure, the application and the operating system. Neverfail’s software continually replicates data that is stored on a company’s primary servers onto secondary servers so that if any anomalies are identified, Neverfail will immediately take action to prevent loss of service. It will either automatically attempt to restart applications before they fail, switch over to a secondary server, or alert the IT staff so that no downtime or loss of service is experienced. Once the issue is resolved, they are automatically switched back to the main servers and neither users nor administrators are required to restart their applications.
“It was important for us to be able to offer our business customers a robust solution for accessing email. By adding Neverfail’s solution into our Managed Service portfolio, we can now offer them enormous service expertise to protect critical parts of our customers’ IT infrastructure,” said Curt Hopkins, Head of Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Vodafone UK. “Neverfail has an enviable reputation for protecting mission-critical systems with its continuous availability solutions and we have selected them as our preferred provider behind our high availability and disaster recovery services for mobile email systems offered to business customers deploying the BlackBerry Enterprise Server.”
“Vodafone as a company relies on continuous mobile access to email and we have also selected the Neverfail solution to use within our own organization,” continued Hopkins. “Having complete confidence that email will be available 24/7 365 days a year is a significant advantage as many key staff depend on access via BlackBerry smartphones in order to fulfil their roles.”
“Vodafone is well ahead of the general telecommunications market. Rather than just providing handsets and airtime minutes, Vodafone is providing strategic services, such as high availability to protect mobile access to email and information, to support its business customers,“ said Richard Ruddlesden, EMEA Channel Director, Neverfail. “We are very pleased that Vodafone has selected us to offer its customers an exceptional communications experience that is the best in the industry.”
The Vodafone Neverfail High Availability Service works in conjunction with the BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, Microsoft Exchange™, IBM Lotus® Domino™ and Novell Groupwise™ email environments. With the ability to connect many users, BlackBerry Enterprise Server is installed behind the corporate firewall and supports seamless mailbox and application integration for users.
About Vodafone:
Vodafone UK has 17.93 million customers and is part of the world’s leading international mobile telecommunications Group, offering a wide range of voice and data communications. The company is committed to providing mobile solutions that allow both consumer and business customers to make the most of now. In addition, Vodafone connects customers across the globe with roaming agreements worldwide. It provides 3G roaming in 29 countries and offers great roaming value with Vodafone Passport. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.co.uk.
About Neverfail:
Neverfail is a leading global software company providing affordable data protection, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions focused on keeping users productive. Neverfail’s software solutions enable users to remain continuously connected to the live software application irrespective of hardware, software, operating system, or network failures. Neverfail’s mission of eliminating application downtime for the end user delivers the assurance of business continuity, removes the commercial and IT management costs associated with system downtime and enables the more productive use of IT resources. More information can be found at www.neverfailgroup.com .
For further information please contact:
VODAFONE
Ben Taylor
Vodafone Group Media Relations
0044 1635 664444
Groupmediarelations@vodafone.com
NEVERFAIL
Lauren Drapala
AxiCom
Tel: +44 (0) 208 392 4054
Cell: +44 (0) 772 576 1451
Lauren.drapala@axicom,com
Ann Taylor
Neverfail PR Director
Tel: (512) 327-5777 ext. 1834
Cell: (512) 970-4067
Ataylor@neverfailgroup.com
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