3 cloud-based disaster recovery solutions to safeguard your IT department's peace of mind

Dear CIO, here are some Cloud Disaster Recovery solutions you need to use to back up your data and protect your applications, but also to preserve your peace of mind.

If IT infrastructure security and replication capabilities are at the heart of your concerns, this software also offers new resources to the business. Suspense.

You can also rely on the many arguments and points of relaxation selected by appvizer to convince your CFO and CEO of the return on investment of your chosen DRP solution:

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Arguments to convince your CEO or CFO

Depending on the position, views differ. How do you convince your CEO or CFO of the need to implement a Disaster Recovery Plan solution?

Let's hit the nail on the head.

No DRP, no chocolate

That's essentially what you can tell your CEO or CFO if either of them needs to understand why they should invest in a solution that secures their business.

The damage caused to the portfolio and the business can be disastrous in the wake of a disaster or cyber-attack.

Here are some concrete figures:

57% of French companies fell victim to a cyber attack in 2016, compared with "just" 32% in 2015.

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One in ten of the companies attacked suffered losses in excess of 100,000 euros.

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93% of companies that lost their data or access to it for 10 days or more went bankrupt in the year following the disaster.

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Don't skimp, expose all the threats hovering over your information system, like carrion vultures:

• hardware or software failure
• cyber attack
• shadow IT, human error,
• natural disaster, fire, water damage, lightning,
• intrusions, ransomware, cryptolocker, phishing,
• data loss, corrupted files,
• server downtime, machine downtime.

Business downtime, even temporary, can lead to a drop in sales, impacting the cash flow and profitability of SMEs, ETIs and major accounts, or worse.

Software: disaster recovery solutions in the cloud

Software or Cloud platforms help the CIO to ensure the continuity of the company's activity, depending on its objectives:

• design a DRP that is part of a Business Continuity Plan and encompasses all services,
• set up a separate Disaster Recovery Plan to guarantee at least the continuity of information systems.

6 benefits for CIOs, CEOs and CFOs

When it comes to implementing a disaster recovery plan, this type of platform acts as a true partner in supporting the company's business, bringing its share of benefits that naturally strike a chord with every manager:

• Benefit no. 1: saving time, and therefore money. The IS (information system) is restarted from the infrastructure hosted by the cloud provider in record time, compared with conventional remote sites. The company can get back up and running more quickly, while retaining its business and affecting sales to a lesser extent;


• Advantage no. 2: better value for money. Small and medium-sized businesses and major accounts in North America reduce their budgets by up to 70% by adopting a cloud-based disaster recovery solution;


• Advantage no. 3: confidence in disaster recovery (priceless!). Remote control to launch the DRP via an administration console eliminates the need for intervention by the DRP provider. The result: shorter restart times, calculated control and easier testing;


• Benefit no. 4: flexible scope for upgrades. With less investment in hardware, you have greater leeway to replicate data and, above all, to carry out DRP tests that are only billed on an "actual" basis;


• Advantage n°5: a more flexible commitment to the supplier. appvizer has never come across a company refusing a contract offering greater freedom, with an average commitment period of 1 year for Cloud platforms with inexpensive reversibility clauses, versus 3 years for more traditional solutions;


• Advantage no. 6: the CIO remains zen. He recovers the data and the services are reactivated. He can focus all his energies on other projects with an insolent peace of mind. Let's take a look at some of our solutions, which position themselves as true business partners.

3 Cloud-based disaster recovery solutions

SFR doesn't have a monopoly on replication, backup or the infrastructures needed to restore availability at all levels.

Here are 3 suppliers with the expertise you need to switch over unperturbed at the right time:

Solution no. 1: Veeam Cloud, the big American machine

American company Veeam offers a wide range of solutions for large-scale enterprises, addressing concerns such as business continuity, agility and digital transformation, with multi-cloud administration and migration.

Veeam Cloud is part of this approach, enabling DRaaS (described above) with the option of hybrid cloud extension.

Incident recovery is carried out via a service provider, from the cloud.

The benefits of Veeam's disaster recovery solution :

• Efficient image-based replication,
• RTPO (Recovery Time Objective) of less than 15 minutes for all applications,
• efficient recovery for any load, independent of storage, applications and OS,
• advanced networking features to manage networking for you, without complex configuration or VPNs.

We'll be able to simplify replication and scale much more easily during a DR event or even during testing. And our customers will love the fact that replication tasks will be integrated and autoconfigured on demand using our Veeam Cloud Connect portal.

Matthew Chesterton, Managing Director OffsiteDataSync

Solution 2: Nuabee, the French PRAaaS in the Public Cloud

Some SMEs, ETIs and large accounts with 5,000 employees prefer to rely on Nuabee, a PRA as a service solution that complies with European law, in preference to Orange Business Services' Public Cloud, Flexible Engine.

It should also be noted that the hosting provider has obtained ISO 27001 certification (an international benchmark), guaranteeing data integrity, confidentiality and traceability.

Nuabee's great strength lies in its ability to automate disaster recovery processes based on OpenStack technology:

• backup of all IT environments, whether heterogeneous or not (any hypervisor, physical servers, VPS, Cloud, ...) ;
• regular, monitored testing, with restoration to the public cloud;
• invoicing based on actual consumption, i.e. only on replicated data and server utilization during tests or effective recovery;
• your in-house resources are freed up from any complex or time-consuming tasks.

Other highlights include Nuabee's ability to restart mission-critical applications in a matter of hours, compared with 48 hours on local infrastructures, and easier upgrading in the public cloud.

Nuabee's advantages: a French solution that's easy to use, responsive and attentive to your needs, and a budget tailored to SMEs.

Testimonial from Ludovic Dodin, IT Manager at AlterEos Groupe, a 335-employee company with a call center and document dematerialization activities.

Solution 3: Mismo and Double-Take for Microsoft servers

Mismo is an IT company offering a wide range of services, from infrastructure modernization to hardware distribution.

Asked to set up an outsourced Disaster Recovery Plan, Mismo recommended Double-Take, a replication software package for Microsoft servers.

For Pyrétransit, Double-Take software offers the advantages of being able to dynamically move, protect and restore applications from physical and virtual server environments, even remotely.

Data replication is carried out in real time via TCP/IP in asynchronous mode, with optimized bandwidth utilization enabling replication to a remote site: this procedure offers additional protection against disaster.

Today, the Double-Take solution enables us to guarantee 99.99% availability of our servers and applications, and to be more confident in the face of the risks of IT failure or disaster that our company could suffer.

Guy Armengaud, Administrative and Financial Director of Pyrétransit, a customs broker and organizer of international road, air and sea transport, with 40 employees at 3 sites in the Midi-Pyrénées region.

Comparison of Disaster Recovery Plan solutions

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Good business continuity

Your CFO and CEO shouldn't consider an IT recovery plan as an option, but as a prerequisite for business continuity in the event of a glitch.

In this article, we take a look at three solutions that simplify the management of a Disaster Recovery Plan at every level (storage, backup, restoration, etc.), while offering expert professional support to help you along the way.

With enhanced performance and lower costs, these 3 cloud-based DRP solutions are serious alternatives to a certain telephony player dressed in a red cape: get in touch with peace of mind!