benefits to disaster recovery
- Always on replication allows faster RPOs and RTOs
- All-in-one disaster recovery interface making it easy to recover whatever the cause
- Automated failover and failback processes reduces the human errors of manual failback and reduces lost data
- Reduced network costs and bandwidth requirements by only replicating what is necessary
- Scalable solution that grows with you
- Replication from any storage device
- ISO 27001 certified disaster recovery
- Enjoy a fully managed service with immediate UK based support
What is a disaster recovery service?
Disaster Recovery and business continuity go hand in hand and companies must go beyond traditional on-site data back-ups and have a disaster recovery plan.
Without a plan you are leaving your IT infrastructure open to both cyber-attacks and environmental outages (caused by fire and flooding). Even if you have a backup tape how long realistically would it take you to get servers back up and running along with your users? This downtime can be catastrophic to businesses from a loss of income and reputational damage point of view.
Having a disaster recovery solution in place helps massively reduce the impact that an outage can have on business continuity. Every business is different so we will work with you to find out what data and applications are critical to you so we can tailor everything to meet your needs.
Ensure minimal downtime and data loss with our GDPR ready disaster recovery services
Our Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) powered by industry leading provider Zerto protects businesses of all sizes and ensures business continuity.
While traditional backups take a snapshot of your data once a day, our DRaaS works by continuously running sync and replication of your data, applications and virtual machines to fully automate the failover and failback process. This means in the event of an outage your data loss will be in seconds (Recovery Point Objective) and your downtime will be a maximum of 15 minutes (Recovery Time Objective).
Our Disaster Recovery solution provides total IT resilience and continuous data protection. It also offers data protection and workload mobility on-site and between hybrid and multi-clouds.
FAQs
How fast will I be back up and running?
As a leading UK disaster recovery solution provider, you can be confident you will be back online and running as normal within 15 minutes. With our Recovery Time Objective (RTO), downtime is minimised and you will see very little disruption to your day-to-day operations during a disaster.
How much data will I lose in the event of an outage?
Our Recovery Point Objective for our disaster recovery service aims to keep data loss down to a few seconds. This is achieved via the continuous sync and replication that we do. Contact us today for a free demo and to see how we can help you create an IT disaster recovery plan that’s fit-for-purpose.
How much does DRaaS cost?
We provide expert disaster recovery solutions that will ensure your business operates smoothly and efficiently. To do this, we build bespoke enterprise resources and operational planning solutions in-house, as such, each cost is dependent on the project at hand. Speak to our sales team today for an estimated cost.
How do I declare a disaster?
You’ll receive a dedicated support team and contact number to report incidents.
Can I test before I commit?
Yes, our support team can assess your needs and show you a demo of our services.
How fast does it work?
Pick up from where you left off within 15 minutes.
In the event of an outage, a backup will only restore your data back to the time you last ran a backup. Whereas Disaster Recovery is a solution which is constantly syncing your data with the cloud allowing you to recover faster (as quickly as 15 minutes in some instances) with no loss of data. Also, if you’re only backing up data locally on a tape your data can be put at risk from fire or flood. Having it stored offsite removes this risk.
No, our DRaaS solution is flexible and can grow with you to ensure all your data is backed up accordingly.
Absolutely, this is something we can do for you. Just let us know what applications you’d like to include.
Anything you consider business critical can be securely backed up (files, applications, desktops etc).
No, it’s affordable regardless of the size of your company. Plus, when you add in the cost of lost data and being offline for long periods of time, having a solution which gets you back up and running in minutes just makes sense.
You’ll have access to our support team who will be able to work with you to resolve any issues straight away to minimise the impact a disaster has upon your company.
Zerto - The ultimate
IT Resilience Platform
- Continuously Available – always-on customer experience
- Workload Mobility – easily move apps and data workloads without any risk and be 100% protected
- Multi-Cloud Agility – works with the cloud of your choice and you are free to move to and from cloud suppliers
Zerto Building Blocks
Zerto’s disaster recovery solution works using innovative Hypervisor-Based Replication technology which is made up of the following two components:
Zerto Virtual Manager (ZVM) – this manages disaster recovery and business continuity at a site level and is plugged into VMware, vCenter and/or Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
Virtual Replication Appliance (VRA) – this continuously replicates the virtual machines and associated virtual disks. One VRA is installed per ESXi/Hyper-V host. VRA software is automatically deployed on physical hosts.
hypervisor-based replication
- Fast RTO (under 15 minutes) and an RPO of seconds.
- Installed inside the virtual machine which means that VRA is able to tap into a VM’s IO stream. This means whenever the VM writes to its virtual disks, this is also captured, cloned and sent to the recovery site.
- Allows you to recover down to an individual machine by being able to replicate at the correct level of any virtual entity.
- Zerto simply resides in the hypervisor enabling easy centralised management from the virtual machine console.
- The hypervisor replication is software based so it can be deployed and managed easily for complete control over your scalability.
- Hardware agnostic, supported on all storage arrays.
Automated failover and failback
Testing made easy
Many companies are required to demonstrate the effectiveness of their disaster recovery processes in order to pass audits. In the past this has meant performing these demonstrations outside of work hours in case any disruptions were caused to users. With Zerto you can carry out failover testing in a matter of minutes at any time with specially created sandbox testing within a safe test environment. And it’s not a complicated process either as you can carry out testing with just a few clicks of the mouse!
Data recovery
Users deleting files or folders accidentally is still the most common disaster that IT managers need to address. Zerto Virtual Replication allows this process to be as painless as possible by providing the ability to recover a single file or folder up to 14 days in the past.
With the data replicated to the disaster recovery site it is easy to create an offsite of data for long-term retention should you need it for compliance.
