WTS, Inc., a leader in application hosting, managed disaster recovery, and co-location services for Oracle's JD Edwards applications, today announced its newly expanded Managed Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity service for IBM i customers. These services are available for all organizations who use IBM i for Power solutions and also include support for DB2, Oracle, and SQL databases. WTS's business continuity disaster recovery services are designed to ensure that organizations can recover their business-critical systems quickly, with minimal interruption to their organization and operations.

"Whether it's the failure of critical hardware or a catastrophic regional disaster, the impact from unplanned outages is a financial risk most organizations don't have to take," said Richard Dolewski, chief technology officer of WTS. "The single point of failure for most every IT infrastructure scenario is the underlying fact that most companies still hope that in an actual disaster, their staff will be available to travel to their recovery site and execute the recovery. Whether companies have tape backup, vaulting, data replication or high availability based solutions; no matter if it's an internal datacenter, contracted facility, quick-ship program, or any other combination, no staff means no recovery."

WTS partners with its customers' IT departments to ensure a timely recovery of its IBM i systems, allowing them to focus on their core business competencies. This solution provides assurance that the customer's systems are being recovered by experts who understand their systems and the critical business needs they serve. As a result of extensive experience performing system recoveries for other companies, WTS provides the highest level of recovery assurance for any IBM customer who requires a System i disaster recovery solution.

The WTS managed disaster recovery service will eliminate the costs of duplicating internal systems and will provide solutions for the staffing concerns and geographic risks associated with a regional disaster. This service includes:

• Experienced WTS staff to perform the recovery on our customer's behalf
• Scheduled twice annual testing of each customer's recovery scenario
• Stand-by equipment that meets our customers sizing and configuration requirements
• Lowest iSeries subscription rates in the industry-10-to-1 versus 150 plus to 1
• No declaration fees in a disaster
• Guaranteed test time within 6 weeks of a request
• No site access fees in a disaster for the first 10 days
• Data storage solutions that ensure data availability at the recovery site
• Connectivity options from our customers location to the recovery site

Organizations interested in this service from WTS can learn more by attending the webinar titled Is Your System i Recoverable? This webinar will be held Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 11:30 a. m. ET (8:30am PT). More about this webinar from WTS can be found at WTS iSeries Webinar Registration.

Working with a managed recovery services provider to execute a disaster recovery plan can be valuable to any business that has limited funding, scarce capital resources, or staffing constraints. A solution from WTS ensures the recovery process is started on time by some of the best System i resources in the industry, ensuring the organization meets its recovery objectives. When a regional disaster occurs, it can be difficult for personnel to commit to executing a disaster recovery plan. A managed disaster recovery solution from WTS offers a lower total cost solution by reducing incremental capital expenditures for hardware, eliminating employee travel, and ensuring data availability while allowing the customer's staff to concentrate on other corporate requirements or personal needs created by the crises and associated service interruption.

WTS' Managed Disaster Recovery service is architected to meet the business continuity and compliance requirements of all customers. With this service, WTS will execute the recovery plan for our disaster recovery customers, perform twice per year disaster recovery testing, write the recovery plan, and provide an initial assessment of IT infrastructure, backup and recovery policies. WTS delivers these services while its customer's IT department focuses on other corporate responsibilities. This ensures the recovery process is started on time and is capable of meeting up-time requirements including its recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives.

About WTS

WTS, Inc., the leader in application hosting for Oracle's JD Edwards enterprise software, provides a wide range of services for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World customers including hosting, disaster recovery and business continuity, remote applications management and complementary product support. Our customers benefit from an industry-leading and proven solution that increases efficiency, enables business and technology change, and reduces IT risk. Oracle holds a significant equity interest in WTS. Founded in 1997, WTS is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, a regional office on the Oracle campus in Denver, Colorado, and data centers in Tukwila, Washington, and Denver, Colorado. Additional information about WTS is available at www.wts.com.

About Richard Dolewski

Richard Dolewski is chief technology officer and vice president of Business Continuity Services for WTS. He and his teams have supported over 18 computer-room disaster recovery events and conducted over 200 disaster recovery tests. Richard is responsible for WTS' portfolio of recovery services including Recovery Plan consulting, Disaster Recovery solutions, High Systems Availability, and customized Business Continuity solutions designed for IBM i customers. Richard's newest book titled "System i Disaster Recovery Planning" is available from MC Press and Amazon.com. Richard also was a featured presenter at COMMON's 2009 Annual Meeting and IT Executive Conference in Reno, Nevada, last April.