We’ve all been there. That annoying moment when the power dies or your computer has a blip and all that valuable data you’ve been working on just disappears into the ether never to be seen again.
Data losses can prove fatal
Loss of data and safety breaches can signal the end for any business. They occur at any time for a multitude of reasons from hardware failure, natural disaster to human error or terrorism. Therefore, it makes sense to back up your data frequently to a cloud storage facility. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of a managed disaster recovery system (DR).
Benefits of a DR system
A DR service helps you back up all your data into Microsoft Azure. Its clever system offers the following features:
- Simultaneous replication of physical and virtual data
This enabies faster management of workloads with minimal touch allowing you to focus on greater innovation and efficiency.
- Experienced team of engineers to guide you through the process from design to implementation.
- Any point in time recovery to RPOs (Recovery Point Objectives) in seconds- allowing your business to continue to operate smoothly and efficiently, saving hours of lost time and productivity.
- On the fly conversion to deliver RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) in minutes.
- Automation and acceleration of the entire failover and failback process in a few simple steps. This reduces the errors of manual failback, lowers data loss, and ensures data integrity. The system allows you to validate recoverability, perform a migration dry-run or test against production replicas with no impact upon production or protection.
- Continuous Data Protection (CDP) by way of a checkpoint journal at the recovery site.
This can store RPO points from between 1 hour to 30 days enabling restoration to points prior to the disaster. This allows you to continuously capture and track data modifications. Every change made is automatically written into a journal with a granularity of seconds, so you can rewind to a point in time immediately before an incident. This means that you are able to protect your key business services and applications including all their dependencies as a cohesive, logical entity without the need for periodic backups and snapshots.
- Advanced Security Features
A DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service) solution can extend the security measures and compliance rules you already have on-premise into the cloud.
- The capacity to set your own Recovery Point Objectives
The system allows you to define your own RPOs for your Virtual Machine (VM) or groups of VMs. RPOs of seconds can be achieved with little impact on performance or resource usage of the primary system.
- Quality guarantees are provided by way of accreditation to ISO27001 which provides reassurance that data is stored with maximum security.
- A money back guarantee is also offered should the system fail to meet its Service Level Agreement.
Perhaps the question really should can you afford not to have a disaster management system?
