DataGardens joins CenturyLink, adding proven disaster recovery offering to cloud portfolio

CenturyLink is announcing the acquisition of DataGardens Inc., a Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) provider based in Edmonton, Alberta. This will give customers a cost-effective and innovative way to mirror physical or virtual machine data to a highly available cloud environment. The acquisition brings a proven disaster recovery offering into the CenturyLink Cloud portfolio and lets us more fully integrate this toolset into our product suite.

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CenturyLink and DataGardens have a longstanding partnering relationship and formed a closer cloud relationship earlier this year. DataGardens’ flagship software suite, SafeHaven, provides cloud-based disaster recovery by creating an offsite virtual data centre in locations such as CenturyLink Cloud. Customers can define recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives, and quickly failover and failback with minimal disruption to mission-critical systems. In addition, SafeHaven delivers point-and-click test failover and failback functions that simplify disaster recover testing without affecting production data.


The DataGardens technology platform is ideal for small to midsize business customers or enterprise departments that cannot tolerate unexpected downtime, but have traditionally seen disaster recovery as too expensive or complicated to set up. With this disaster recovery software suite, customers can quickly set up a redundant cloud architecture that protects them from stress events such as unplanned outages or local hardware failures.


With DataGardens, CenturyLink acquires a mature platform and impressive set of technologists and leaders. The product offers multiple deployment options, “protection groups” that ensure that a pool of servers stay consistent, DR planning options, and many other capabilities that demonstrate a thoughtful design and practical technology strategy. The diagram below shows one such deployment model where both physical and virtual resources are mirrored to a recovery group in the CenturyLink Cloud.

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