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.

Enterprise Managed Disaster Recovery

Global Storage has vast experience and expertise in understanding today’s Business Continuity challenges. 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™ Enterprise Managed Disaster Recovery Service leverages from our expertise in continuous storage replication, virtualisation and the latest de-duplication replication technology to offer customers a better choice when it comes to building a suitable Disaster Recovery capability.

Our managed services approach to business continuity and disaster recovery provides customers with a complete recovery point for their IT environment, independent of hardware constraints.

EnvironmentReady™ manages the risks associated with data loss and IT systems downtime, with dedicated resources to manage the recovery process, guaranteed SLAs on recovery times and best practice methodologies and processes.

EnvironmentReady^™  Service

EnvironmentReady™ Enterprise Managed Disaster Recovery 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, applications, firewall and communications to be brought online in our recovery centre.

EnvironmentReady^™  CLR Service

The EnvironmentReady™ Continuous Local & Remote (CLR) service extends the features of EnvironmentReady™ to provide enhanced recovery times for mission critical application groups.

Powered by a combination of local site Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and Continuous Remote Replication (CRR) together with enterprise level data de-duplication, entire server images are captured and continuously replicated to both local storage and additionally remotely to our EnvironmentReady™ recovery centre. In the event of a disaster, EnvironmentReady™ CLR allows the customer to recover locally from a CDP copy or recover remotely from a CRR copy to a point in time just before the disaster took place.

How EnvironmentReady^™ CLR Works

Simplified Disaster Recovery Testing

EnvironmentReady™ simplifi es disaster recovery testing and accelerates recovery from a single server failure to a complete primary site outage. All aspects of the disaster recovery testing are managed and regularly carried out by Global Storage, providing peace of mind to organisations that their disaster recovery plan has been fully tested.

Enhanced Service Level Agreements

EnvironmentReady™ provides enhanced Service Level Agreement (SLA) levels to customers over traditional disaster recovery strategies. Global Storage SLAs guarantee that data is being backed up and replicated off-site automatically, and provide an agreed response time following a declared disaster to assist organisations with their data recovery objectives.

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.

EnvironmentReady^™ - Technology & Expertise

Global Storage uses enterprise class SAN, Server and Virtualisation infrastructure giving customers the reliability and features synonymous with only the most advanced Enterprise environment. 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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