The Disaster Recovery Challenge

Organisations rely more heavily on their data and IT assets now more than ever before. Without access to corporate data files, email, and customer information core business operations grind to a sudden halt.

Recovering failed applications & IT environments is complex, requires great human intervention, and often takes weeks to bring the environment back online – if at all.

As a result the need for improved Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) processes is at the forefront of every organisation’s strategic goals. Continuous business operation requires effective application and data recovery that can cater for both minor and major outages and adapt to your businesses changing needs.

The challenges organisations face when going alone

Organisations trying to find a BC/DR solution often have difficulty evaluating all of the criteria associated with a successful deployment. Some of the common questions faced include:

• What sort of replication technologies are available, suitable and viable for your environment?
• How do you evaluate the success and cost of any proposed technology?
• What are the hidden costs involved. i.e. second site setup & environmental costs, IT planning and unexpected infrastructure?
• What dedicated resources will be required to deploy and manage a solution internally?
• How does an organisation plan and cater for the varying changes in its data availability and replication requirements as their BC/DR strategy develops?

These challenges often leave necessary BC/DR plans on the shelf due to limitations of internal IT resources, Budget constraints, or the inability to find a suitable solution. Due to these common hurdles most organisations existing DRP & BC strategies fall well short of meeting their optimum recovery objective.

EnvironmentReady^™ Managed Disaster Recovery Service

Global Storage has vast experience and expertise in understanding the challenges of data protection. As specialists in Backup and Disaster Recovery, we understand the limitations and complexities of protecting data and the considerations required to get it right.

Our EnvironmentReady^™ Managed Disaster Recovery Service leverages our  online backup service to deliver fully managed disaster recovery  for a simple add on cost per server per month, allowing customers to consolidate and save on their backup and disaster recovery spending.

In the event of a disaster, EnvironmentReady^™ enables a customer's complete environment, including their servers and applications to be  brought online in our recovery centre using standby virtual server technology.

EnvironmentReady^™ Managed Disaster Recovery Service leverages from our expertise in storage virtualisation and the latest server replication technologies to offer customers a better choice when it comes to building a suitable business continuity and disaster recovery capability.

This approach to business continuity and DR provides organisations with a complete recovery point for their IT environment, independent of hardware constraints. Both the data and the application environment can be quickly restored at our ERS data centre, as they were just before the failure/disaster took place.

Powered by enterprise level data de-duplication and replication technology, entire server images are captured and replicated to our EnvironmentReady^™ ERS data centre where they can be simply and quickly redeployed onto our recovery servers. This simplifies routine testing, and accelerates recovery from a single server failure to a complete primary site outage. Global Storage EnvironmentReady™ ERS provides enhanced SLA levels to customers over traditional replication strategies.

EnvironmentReady^™ Managed Disaster Recovery Benefits

• Complete Disaster Recovery/ Business Continuity strategy.
•  Strong SLAs guarantee full systems recovery.
• Enterprise class replication & recovery capabilities.
• Reduces cost of business disruption and downtime
• Reduces TCO on Infrastructure, Data Centre costs & IT resources.
• Reduce CAPEX – Services charged as Capacity On Demand Monthly OPEX payment
• Specialised recovery team dedicated to bring your business back online quickly.
• Flexible client recovery & testing options using shared virtual recovery environments running VMware.
• Return Home Solution – ability to move off the DR infrastructure back to your production environment.

How EnvironmentReady^™ Works

EnvironmentReady^™ - Technology & Expertise

Global Storage has two secure data centre locations allowing customers to choose whether they want to use EnvironmentReady^™ for just their DR site recovery or as both the Primary and DR Site for their organisation. In either situation your complete server environment runs on Global Storage managed infrastructure meaning there is minimal capital outlay required to get started.

Global Storage uses enterprise class SAN, Server and Virtualisation infrastructure giving customers the reliability and features only typically available/affordable to Enterprise customers. Combined with the appropriate communication solution for your organisations needs, users have fast secure access to dedicated recovery servers purposed for the application being used.

Global Storage uses a team of highly skilled engineers to consult, design and implement an EnvironmentReady^™ solution to meet your exact needs. Our EnvironmentReady^™ development specialists will design a clear road map and adoption strategy for your company and create a comprehensive, actionable solution so you can quickly and cost-effectively restore your critical business operations and bring your business back online.

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