Vodafone promises its BlackBerrys won't die

If you’d rather lose your right arm than your mobile email, Vodafone has some news for you: the operator has signed up with Neverfail to provide “continuous availability” and disaster recovery for BlackBerry users.

In short, if anything goes wrong with your BlackBerry, Neverfail will spot the problem before anything drastic happens and wake up the appropriate IT guy or switch to another email server, so there’s no downtime with the BlackBerry service and no emails going missing.

The service also works for Microsoft and Lotus Notes too, and Vodafone says it likes the Neverfail system so much it uses it in-house.

Sounds good – but will it be able to keep mobile email going when this happens?