“Quorum OnQ already appeared to be a solid product. OnQ is a next-gen backup and recovery product built around modern ideas of data protection. It could back up virtual or physical machines and store those backups in native (but deduplicated) format in a customer’s cloud or the Quorum-branded cloud. The latest update makes the solution more appealing to enterprise customers.

Because the backups are stored in native format, OnQ supports the idea of instant recovery, where VMs or physical machines could start in the cloud with minimal effort. In fact, Quorum even supports the concept of a heartbeat so that VMs in the cloud could actually automatically fail over for their primary counterparts. OnQ also supports the idea of automated recovery testing, so that customers know that things will work in the event of a disaster.”…

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