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DISASTER RECOVERY AS A SERVICE (DRaaS)

DISASTER RECOVERY EXPERTS

Availability no matter what the challenge. DRaas Simplified

DRaas - Designed for Business

DRaaS you can Trust !

DirectCloud backup are a UK leading Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery specialists, we understand that no two customers are the same, nor are the systems and data that we protect. We provided Fully managed and monitored Disaster Recovery solutions based around Recovery Times and Recovery Points that suit you’re business.

Our fully managed solutions provide many advantages over traditional DR solutions, from Physical to Virtual (P2V), standby images designed to make recovery simple and affordable. Through to application and business continuity solutions providing aggressive Recovery Times and Recovery points for mission critical systems.

Our Contracts are flexible, with all solutions supported via our Fully Managed UK NOC Team.

Benefits of our DRaaS

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Standby Images – Cold/ Warm P2V Systems

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No hardware / Software Costs

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Fast RTO’s – Aggressive Recovery Times

Automated Recovery

Automated Recovery, Failover – Fail Back Fully Managed

Unlimited Virtual Recovery

Unlimited Virtual Recovery Environment -Expert Management

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Cost-Effective

Cost-Effective – Priced per Server / Mth

DRaaS DESIGNED TO FIT YOUR BUSINESS

Our suite of Disaster Recovery solutions are designed to cater for all Recovery Time Objectives, recreating Physical or Virtual images into offsite Standby Images, Through to real-time replication with near immediate failover/failback for the most challenging RTO’s. Our Fully Managed DRaaS solutions are designed to minimise business impact and disruption – Talk to Us Today to evaluate the solutions for you.

TAILORED DRaaS OVERVIEW


•  Framework detailing Backup and Recovery of all systems, availability, Impact and Criticality.
•  Protection for business Applications, Physical / Virtual Systems
•  Solutions review for automated recovery for each system, operational and management impact And overhead time/cost
•  Set RTO/RPO objectives around each server protected.
•  Establish a business continuity plan around critical systems and infrastructure
•  Built on Cloud-Ready Virtual Disaster Recovery (VDR) systems and storage.
•  Configure leading enterprise class storage, Cloud Servers, Firewalls, Networks, Backup and Software To meet deliverable recovery times.
•  Deploy end-point management (AEM) for each protected system for proactive reporting.
•  Fully Managed solution, Advanced Production monitoring.
•  Daily Management/ Monitoring/ Configuration and reporting.
DRaaS OVERVIEW

TAILORED DRaaS OVERVIEW


•   1. Virtual Recovery Without the Virtual Infrastructure
Following a system outage or failure, important system can be operational immediately. Our solution offers integral recovery that creates up-to-date Standby image ready within minutes.
•   2. Locally Available Images.
Specifying a storage location and access credentials, Our “Instant VM” builds bootable VHD’s of your windows system, Providing your with VDR, as a local disk/NAS or secondary virtual system
•   3. Zero Recovery Needed.
“Instant VM” builds bootable Standby Images, so you don’t need to trigger a recovery and wait for data to be copied over, key system can be running in minutes. Even without internet
•   4. Multiple Boo-Up-option.
Standby image are stored as local VHD files and are mounted and booted with Hyper-V or Oracle Virtual Box. By creation a new VM. attaching the disk and booting the new server up. with all of your files in 1-15 minute.
•   5. No Cloud Necessary.
You need to be up and running, Even when there is no internet. Unlike traditional Virtual DR, Standby Image don’t require the use of cloud storage.Images are created locally.
If you have a site failure, the same option can be apply for our virtual DR in the cloud.spine up your entire infrastructure in our Datacenter and connect securely into your network via VPN within minutes.
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Simplify DRaaS


• Full and partial failover, with built-in network configuration
• Easy configuration, straight from your on-premise Veeam Availability Suite v9 console
• Upgrade from backup: Straight from Backup to DRaaS, With Testing and Failover inclusive
• End-to-end encryption: Encrypt all data in-flight without impacting compression ratios or configuring a VPN.
• Self-service testing, on-demand, through your Veeam console, Failover/Failback
• Complete DRaaS option, mixing and matching backup and full disaster recovery
• Low Cost – Different model available to cover critical systems.
• Secure Datacentre – CSA STAR, ISO 14001, 27001 Accredited UK Datacentre’s
• Exceptional support: 24×7 phone and email support with certified experts

Best of Breed Technology – Leading DRaaS Vendor Gartner Magic Quadrant for DRaaS, 2016 and 2017.”

ULTRA SECURE

DRaaS is not a luxury, downtime is a reality. Reduce business and IT Risk today.

COST EFFECTIVE

Operational spend, no up-front costs, pay as you grow. Pay for what you use as you use it.

FUTURE PROOF

Scale ondemand, add/remove as your business flexes. Respond to the business demands when you need to, unlimited resources on-demand.

FULLY MANAGED

Focus on your business, our team of dedicated DRaaS Specialists will manage and monitor your systems real time – Proactive End-Point Management.

PROTECT YOUR SERVICES AND ALL YOUR DATA

BENEFITS OF DIRECTCLOUD DRaaS SOLUTIONS

Cloud based DRaaS solutions designed from entry level Disaster Recovery – Automated Standby Images locally and offsite for Physical & Virtual System protection with granular level recovery for Applications, Virtual Disks, files. Our solutions are designed to provide minimal management focussing automation to offsite critical data, applications into our Enterprise class Virtual Disaster Recovery Environment – with failover/ failback.

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Hard Agnostic

Our solution replicates your data into our Virtual environment in any virtual frmat, be that from A physical or virtual host, minimising the expense of purchasing Secondary infrastructure.

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No Up-Front Costs

The beauty of our DRaaS solution is our Virtual Disaster Recovery environment is already built, No additional infrastructure costs, simply protect the business systems you want on a monthly basis for a single flat fee per server. Need more memory or processing power - instantly done

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Standby Images

If you have physical systems then we can create local and offsite images, replicating Only the changes over to our virtual disaster recovery platform, instead of traditional P2V that snapshots the entire systems.

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Fully Automated / Managed

We don’t wait for a disaster, quite the opposite. We deploy End-Point Mgt software onto each host to monitor all system activity. Any issue with hardware, services, performance and escalate the issue before DRaaS is required. Rest assured if the unforeseen happens then our dedicated team is ready to get you operational as quickly as possible from our Tier 4 Data-Centre.

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Scales OnDemand

Our solution is completely flexible, our DRaaS means that you will always have more than enough resources systems, data and applications are supported.Adding new systems is done at the click of a button and trued up on a monthly basis.

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Range of Solutions

Our tailor made solutions means your never stuck with just one vendor, we select the best solution(s) That meets your business needs and have the expertise to manage each solution to ensure that you have The best DRaaS Solution, or a combination of solutions to reach that goal.


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DRaaS DESIGNED TO FIT YOUR BUSINESS

Our suite of Disaster Recovery solutions are designed to cater for all Recovery Time Objects (RTO's), recreating Physical and Virtual images into offsite Standby Images, Through to real-time replication with near immediate failover/failback for the most challenging RTO's. Our Fully Managed DRaaS solutions are designed to minimize business imoact and disruption - Talk to Us Today to evaluate the right solution for you.

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Different servers require different levels of recovery. We provide a number of levels of Disaster Recovery services, Demand based DR, Cold, Warm Standby Recovery and Failover, Pick and Mix what servers need higher levels of recovery.

For servers/VMs that need very fast spin-up with a guaranteed Service Level Agreement (SLA) if needed, choose Premium DRaaS for a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of one hour or less or Elite DRaaS with an RTO of 24 hours or less

 

Our DRaaS is an add-on DR subscription service available to customers with our Cloud backup Services. DR for individual systems can be added on a monthly basis. There are four options on an annual contract, and services can be combined:

No Contract – On a demand based Recovery

Cold Standby – Daily / Weekly Images 24-72 hr RPO’s

Warm Standby – Nightly Updated images, 2-4hrs RPO’s

Failover – Always-On – Instant/ 5 Minute Failover

This information is communicated during onboarding and is include in the BC/DR plan. Upon such declaration of disaster, DirectCloud will establish the customer’s DR environment our Virtual Disaster Recovery Cloud environment and provide the customer secured network access to the identified protected servers running on the VDR Cloud as VMs or virtualized computer systems. The customer gets one FREE DR declaration per 12-month contract period.

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MORE THAN JUST BACKUP

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BUSINESS CONTINUITY

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