- Delivers Industry's Premier Solution for DR Monitoring and Management in EMC VMware Virtualization Environments

- Additional Enhancements in Host Configuration Gap Detection, Integration with Leading CMDBs and Ticket Management Systems, as well as Oracle Data Guard and HDS Platform Support

Continuity Software™, a leading provider of disaster recovery management (DRM) solutions, today announced the release of its RecoverGuard™ version 3.0 software. RecoverGuard v3.0 offers customers an unrivaled solution for detecting and correcting disaster recovery (DR) threats and vulnerabilities in their EMC VMware virtualized environments. In addition, RecoverGuard v3.0 adds host configuration gap detection, enhanced integration with leading configuration management databases (CMDBs) and ticket management systems, as well as Oracle Data Guard and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) platform support.

RecoverGuard v3.0 enhancements:

- EMC VMware virtualized environment support - RecoverGuard v3.0 offers customers the ability to easily map their entire VMware environment, including all interdependencies between the virtual and physical layers. RecoverGuard v3.0 performs in depth analysis of ESX Server, CIM and VMFS configurations and their mapping to physical devices. New gaps have been added to the RecoverGuard v3.0 knowledgebase, specific to VMware environments, allowing customers to align to VMware best practices standards. All existing gaps such as data tampering, data completeness, data consistency and optimization recommendations are now applicable to VMware environments as well.

- Host configuration gap detection - RecoverGuard v3.0 enables customers to properly prepare for DR tests and to maintain a recoverable environment by providing them with a tool that discovers and reports on one of the most common DR Testing challenges - host configuration gaps(i.e., hardware, operating system and network resources), in order to ensure recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO) and business continuity objectives are met. Gap coverage includes comparison of versions and path levels of applications, databases and operating systems. In addition, RecoverGuard v3.0 also seeks and identifies differences in hardware specification such as CPUs, memory, etc... between production and DR hosts.

- Enhanced integration with leading configuration management databases (CMDBs) and ticket management systems - RecoverGuard v3.0 now easily and transparently integrates with BMC Remedy and HP OpenView, allowing customers to maintain one point of contact for monitoring and managing their environment. RecoverGuard v3.0 can now be configured to send specific tickets and reports to these systems as standard practice.

- Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Oracle Data Guard platform support - in response to market demand, RecoverGuard v3.0 can now scan HDS TrueCopy solutions, as well as HDS HiCommand Application Server, Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS), Workgroup Modular Storage (WMS), Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) and Universal Storage Platform VM (USP VM). In addition, RecoverGuard v3.0 is now able to scan Oracle Data Guard configurations for gaps and vulnerabilities. The enhancements ensure data protection and improved recoverability, along with optimization opportunities and best practices for these platforms.

"Most Fortune 500 IT organizations have told me they have deployed or are in the process of deploying server virtualization, such as EMC's VMware, for server consolidation and simplified disaster recovery. They also share with me their concerns that server virtualization magnifies by an order of magnitude the serious consequences of DR errors or inconsistencies," said Marc Staimer, Founder and President, Dragon Slayer Consulting. "Continuity Software's RecoverGuard v3.0 eliminates these concerns for VMware by providing complete DR visibility where absolutely none existed before."