Disaster Recovery as a Service
Bounce back from major IT incidents by rapidly spinning up replacement infrastructure
Backups aren’t enough
If you lose a few files, backups let you recover quickly. However, if hardware failure, hacking, malware or employee mistakes knock out much of your server platform, it could take many hours or days to restore everything from backups.
You need a faster IT Recovery plan
Your organisation can’t be left without its business-critical IT systems for hours or days on end. You can’t have staff unable to work and customers growing concerned as service levels dive.
Cloud offers cost-effective emergency hosting option
Rather than pay for a second full-time server infrastructure, it’s smarter to pay for just one platform and combine it with a DRaaS service which can create a second one, on demand, based on recent working snapshots.
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Solution Delivery
DRaaS
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1.Advise
Assess & evaluate you current systems / challenges
• Review current RTOs/RPOs • Confirm data size/change frequency • Suggest link bandwidth & DR locations • Identify copies, generations & immutability
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2.Design
Develop a solution roadmap aligned with your business outcomes
• Storage & recovery locations • Information lifecycle management • Backup sets • On demand processes
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3.Deploy
Seamless transition of applications, data and infrastructure
• Build platform(s) • Set up backup sets • Train users • Demo DRaaS event
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4.Operate
Continuous monitoring and service management
• Monitor capacity utilisation • Periodic DR simulation • Manage platform upgrades • Customer reporting
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5.Optimise
Innovation and optimisation for performance and cost
• Review performance • Reconsider threat landscape • Assess data locations • Identify redundant data
Benefits
Real-world business benefits and customer support
Reduce Business Disruption Risk
Within minutes, your replacement IT infrastructure will be live in the cloud. Your business-critical systems will be back online, with employees, customers and partner unaware there’s even been a major issue.
Gives IT Teams Time To Fix Things
Instead of having to frantically attempt to restore the original platform, your IT team just have to trigger the launch of a cloud-based infrastructure clone.
This buys time for your IT team to investigate the problem, order replacement hardware, and plan for an orderly return to your primary IT platform.
Reassure Your Customers
If you sell to large organisations, the public sector or regulated industries, you are asked questions about business continuity measures. DRaaS can provide reassurance to these risk-averse organisations.
Granular IT Recovery
Restore individual virtual machines, groups of VMs, or everything. You set how frequently recovery points are stored and for how long they are retained. You set the order in which systems are restored.
Smooth Switchover
Virtualisation technology makes it simple to switch to your cloud-based replacement IT platform in minutes, and switch back whenever you’re ready.
FAQs
Aren’t Backups enough?
Restoring large amounts of data from backups can take hours or even days, especially if you need to rebuild servers, virtualisation, or storage platforms. Retrieving offsite backup media and systematically restoring full and incremental backups is a time-consuming and an error-prone process.
Why restore to the cloud?
It’s cheaper than paying for dedicated hardware that will sit idle most of the time. Spare cloud capacity allows almost instant allocation of pre-provisioned infrastructure – reducing downtime.
How quickly can our IT systems recover?
You can restore to a selected recovery point in minutes. This buys you the time needed to get your normal or primary systems back up and running.
Is it costly?
You can restore to a selected recovery point in minutes. This buys you the time needed to get your normal or primary systems back up and running.
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Minimise Downtime, Maximise Uptime.
Safeguard your business with our advanced DraaS solution. Reduce downtime and minimise any business disruptions.