{"id":11183,"date":"2014-07-27T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T23:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jul\/28\/cinolla-shores-its-data-centre-defences-saas-assured\/"},"modified":"2014-07-27T23:47:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T23:47:35","slug":"cinolla-shores-up-its-data-centre-defences-with-saas-assured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cinolla-shores-up-its-data-centre-defences-with-saas-assured\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinolla shores up its data centre defences with SaaS Assured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software as a service (SaaS) provider Cinolla has signed up with SaaS Assured, which enables its services to stay online even if the data centre hits the skids.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which manages bookings and scheduling for outdoor activity providers, signed up to the SaaS Assured initiative to provide peace of mind for its clients.<\/p>\n<p>SaaS Assured, which is provided by NCC Group, &ldquo;helps to &lsquo;keep the lights on&rsquo; while allowing time for end user to source and transition to an alternative solution that fits their requirements,&rdquo; according to the NCC Group website.<\/p>\n<p>This is particularly interesting news given the spate of downtime issues experienced by big cloudy vendors in recent months. <em>CloudTech<\/em> broke the news earlier this month that CRM provider Autotask <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/jul\/03\/autotask-we-have-earn-everybodys-trust-again-which-we-will-do\/\">was suffering serious downtime<\/a>, whilst a Joyent server <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/29\/joyent-data-centre-goes-down-after-typo-promises-tighten-future\/\">also went west recently<\/a> due to what&rsquo;s known in the trade as a fat finger.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The SaaS Assured agreement gives our customers extra confidence to invest in our service,&rdquo; said Rob Brasington of Cinolla in a statement. &ldquo;The agreement is simple enough for all decision makers to understand, while the legalities are straightforward and clear.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d highly recommend it to SaaS providers looking to strengthen their offering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>SaaS Assured&rsquo;s solution ensures that data will be available even if the company goes bust, with customers assured that they can access their application for three months continuously after a failure.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;SaaS Assured adds significant value to a SaaS provider&rsquo;s offering, removing one of the major barriers to cloud adoption,&rdquo; said Daniel Liptrott, managing director of NCC Group&rsquo;s escrow division.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cinolla should be commended for being proactive about business continuity and addressing this common customer concern.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software as a service (SaaS) provider Cinolla has signed up with SaaS Assured, which enables its services to stay online even if the data centre hits the skids.<br \/>\nThe company, which manages bookings and scheduling for outdoor activity providers, signed u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}