Disaster Recovery
Competitive market forces require 24x7 computing, increasing the need to ensure maximum availability while minimizing maintenance and backup windows. In addition, today’s operating environments are characterized by increasingly complex processes with a multitude of interdependent systems and relationships with trading partners who have little tolerance for inability to execute. The confluence of these trends makes the task of designing, implementing, and validating disaster recovery programs increasingly difficult. Yet the need to recover rapidly in the event of a disaster – and with minimal data loss to business critical systems – has never been more imperative.
Despite increased awareness of the potential impact of a disaster, there remains a substantial readiness gap. Gartner estimates that less than 25 percent of Global 2000 enterprises have invested in comprehensive business continuity planning, and less than 50 percent have fully tested disaster-recovery plans.The situation is worse in the SMB community where Gartner estimates that only 35 percent of SMBs have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan in place and fewer than 10 percent of SMBs have crisis management, contingency, business recovery and business resumption plans. The problem of disaster recovery planning and business continuity execution is complex, spanning technology, people and business processes. There is no "one-size fits all" prescription for business continuity or disaster recovery planning. Yet, if an enterprise is unprepared, it could potentially threaten the economic viability of the entire enterprise.
The Cloud is changing the game for these companies. A Cloud solution provides a fully developed virtual data center, supported by the expertise and resources to manage a clients virtual infrastructure, efficiently and securely. As a result, companies reap the benefits of lower total cost of ownership while capitalizing on the advantage of higher availability, enhanced scalability and massive flexibility. Further, by moving data off-premise into the cloud for disaster recovery purposes, companies can protect data from geographical disasters.
Virtustream’s xStream platform, with its N+2 cluster design, provides best-in-class high availability and fault tolerance and a backbone for service continuity and data disaster recovery. Our Disaster Recovery Services will drive numerous benefits for your organization, including minimizing potential economic loss, reducing disruption to normal operations, ensuring organizational stability and orderly recovery, increasing asset protection and compliance with legal, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
Our DR as a Service (DRaaS) Solution allows you to back up your infrastructure to a Virtustream datacenter over the internet. Compute, network, and storage capacity are then reserved within the xStream platform to ensure availability in the event of a failure at your site. You pay only a resource reservation charge during normal operations, and discounted actual consumption charges when DRaaS resources are actively used. This service is invaluable for ensuring that your data is protected from a failure within your sites. One of the most significant advantages of the Virtustream xStream DRaaS is the flexibility of our testing capabilities. xStream DRaaS customers are able to test as frequently as they like, experimenting with and refining their recovery process as much as needed.
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