Application and data availability can make or break a business. These days backing up to the Cloud is a simple, cost effective way to get the advantages of a datacenter without the expense of creating and managing a physical center.
Double-Take Cloud is a simple way to migrate, backup and restore data and applications to the cloud with minimal downtime and complete control over your expenses.
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Cloud Backup and Recovery
Software applications and electronic data are the life blood Here is a quick list of things that can easily push recovery of a business. When they aren't available due to a disaster times into days or weeks:or outage, business is slowed or stopped altogether. In . Equipment failure, requiring a replacementthe short term, outages result in data loss, employee and cus-tomer frustration and lost revenue. The long term penalties . Extended or recurring power outageof an outage can affect a business for a lifetime; lost records, . Air-conditioning failuretransactions and accounting files can even put a business at . Firerisk of regulatory violations. . Flood (water leak)Protecting business means protect ongoing access to servers . Physical damage to the buildingand data; traditionally that means backing up the server. However, backing up the server is only part of the equation. The best way to ensure a fast recovery is to have replacement If you can't recover the data, the backup is useless. equipment standing by at an off-site location with the neces-sary software and configuration to quickly transfer users and If your business relies on tape backup alone, restoration data. The best practice includes a remote data center with is easy only for the simplest failure, and only if everything servers, storage, networking equipment and internet access. goes perfectly. If a hard disk fails and all the backup tapes Restoring to this remote data center from backup tapes are good and the staff is practiced at doing the repair and will likely take too long, assumes that the tapes were not restore, then you might be able to simply buy a replacement affected by the original problem and still leaves the risk of part and get things up within a couple of hours - though the only recovering old data. Instead, replication software can be data will be from last night's backup. If the problem is more used to keep the backup systems constantly updated.complicated and involves a replacement server for instance, you will probably need a day or two to get new hardware in A four hour RTO and RPO requires:place before you even begin to recover. At this stage, 40% of tape restores fail. . Off-site hardware and infrastructure to run servers and applicationsThe right way to evaluate the quality of your system and data . Data updates to the DR site more often than every four protection is to evaluate the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) hours; preferably real-timeand Recovery Point Objective (RPO). These metrics define how long you think it will take you to get back online and . Continuous updates of the application and OS configura-how current the data has to be. tion (without this, recovery may fail after a patch or an upgrade).
The best protection is off-site, rapid . A method to deal with any hardware differences between production and recovery environments.recoveryEvery business will have different RTO and RPO goals. If an organization determines it has a four hour RTO and RPO, then the business can tolerate four hours of downtime between failure and recovery - and that they will only have to recreate (or do without) the last four hours of data. Together, this is about eight hours of lost productivity. For most serious problems, it's an optimistic goal for a tape (or disk-to-disk) backup system alone to meet. Cloud Backup and Recovery
Why isn't every server protected?All the requirements in the list above can be met by current shipping technology. If it is clear that local tape or disk-to-disk solutions do not provide adequate protection and a better solution is available, why isn't every server in the world protected? Usually the answer is "cost". The cost of an off-site, rapid recovery solution comes in a couple of different packages:. Up front cost. Technical complexity (requires new IT specialists, or time and budget to train existing staff). Operational complexity (managing a new data center and twice as much equipment). Project management (complex, expensive projects require lots of planning and management). Risk (expensive, complicated projects sometimes fail)
Given all the cost, complexity, time, and risk involved in creating this capability, these projects are often delayed in favor of projects that produce immediate, obvious results such as a web server update or a desktop refresh. For some o... [download for more]
