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TECHNOLOGY
Aiming for a speedy recovery
By Gareth Johnson, CIS
Taking into consideration what data you have backed up and
how quickly you can restore it following an outage should be
high on your list of priorities, says Gareth Johnson.
24/7 availability is something we all take for granted these
days both as business owners and consumers of IT. But
what price do we put on getting there?
It’s no longer just enough to be able to say you have
plans in place for the recovery of data, particularly when
dealing with customers in real time. After all, being able to
restore data sets that are several hours old might leave you
falling short with both the regulator and your customers in
terms of service level agreements (SLAs).
Putting it another way, do you know when your data
was last backed up and how quickly you could access it
in the advent of a problem? And if you had to, could you
restore it within minutes and seconds?
Where once these questions were reserved for banks
and financial institutions, today they are being asked of
firms of all sizes and this brings new problems for SMEs
and those businesses that have lacked the scale and
resources to deploy such solutions.
Thankfully help is at hand for firms that require
enterprise class protection at a fraction of the cost through
solutions such as Veeam Cloud Connect. Indeed, those
with less than 250 employees and virtual environments
with up to six CPU sockets can now expect the same kind
of cover. That means recovery time (RTOs) and recovery
point objectives (RPOs) of less than 15 minutes for all
applications and data. What’s more is that these new
solutions are designed to grow with you as a business and
can be deployed in various ways depending on your size
and strategy. As a Veeam Partner, CIS is helping to provide
businesses with a secure repository for their data and
managing their backups to mitigate against data loss.
This, in turn, is helping enterprises to scale more
effectively regardless of environment or size. Yet, the
options can seem confusing. In terms of business continuity
planning what best suits your set-up? Would you benefit
from cloud backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service
(DRaaS)? Is your business better suited to a hybrid strategy
of on-premise teamed with cloud options?
Whether you are looking for fully managed IT support
that supports your storage and disaster recovery strategy
or advice and delivery around business continuity planning,
you should always speak to an expert. They will be able to
tell you what best suits the needs of your business in terms
of optimised IT footprint and spend, leaving you one less
thing to worry about.
With a vast number of considerations
and options available when it comes to
disaster recovery, business continuity
planning and the various managed
services around this, CIS has been
delivering trusted impartial advice for
over 25 years.
For more information visit:
www.cisltd.com
or email:
[email protected]
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