Vodafone to guarantee BlackBerry service in the UK

In light of the recent string of outages of RIM's e-mail system for BlackBerry users, Vodafone UK has announced that it will be using a third party's solution to prevent future BlackBerry outages, and package it as a premium service.

Vodafone UK has reached a deal with Neverfail -- a company which provides data protection and recovery solutions with such clients as Microsoft and VMware -- to deliver "guaranteed coverage" for BlackBerry users.

The Vodafone Neverfail High Availability Service for BlackBerry, as it is called, automatically detects BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) outages, and kicks in a secondary server "in less than 90 seconds" to continue service mostly uninterrupted.

Neverfail is a certified independent software vendor for Research In Motion.