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

Dear CIO, here are a few Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan solutions that you should be using to back up your data and protect your applications, but also to preserve your peace of mind.

If the security of your IT infrastructure and replication capabilities are at the heart of your concerns, this software also offers new resources for your 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, points of view differ. How do you convince your CEO or CFO of the need to implement a Disaster Recovery Plan solution?

Let's hit them where it hurts most.

No DRP, no chocolate

That's basically 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 to the business can be disastrous following a disaster or a cyber attack.

Here are some concrete figures:

57% of French businesses 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.

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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-eating 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 interruption, even temporary, can lead to a drop in turnover, 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 IT Departments to ensure the continuity of business activity, depending on their objectives:

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

6 benefits for the CIO, CEO and CFO

When a disaster recovery plan is put in place, this type of platform acts as a true partner in supporting the company's business, bringing with it a host 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 service provider in record time compared with conventional remote sites. The company can get back up and running more quickly, keeping its business and affecting turnover to a lesser extent;


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


• Benefit 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;


• Advantage no. 4: flexible scope for upgrades. With less investment in hardware, you have more room to manoeuvre when it comes to replicating data and, above all, carrying out DRP tests that are only billed on an "actual" basis;


• Advantage no. 5: a more flexible commitment with the supplier. appvizer has never come across a company that refused a contract offering greater freedom, with an average commitment period of 1 year for Cloud platforms with inexpensive reversibility clauses, compared with 3 years for more traditional solutions;


• Advantage no. 6: the CIO stays cool. He recovers the data and the services are reactivated. He can concentrate all his energy on other projects with an insolent peace of mind. Let's take a look at some of the solutions that are positioning themselves as genuine partners for businesses.

3 Business Continuity Plan solutions in the Cloud

SFR does not have a monopoly on replication, backup or the infrastructure needed to restore availability at all levels.

Here are 3 suppliers with the expertise required to make the switchover unperturbed at the right time:

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

American company Veeam offers a range of solutions for large businesses, responding to concerns about business continuity and the agility of digital transformation, with multi-cloud administration and migration.

Veeam Cloud is part of this approach, enabling DRaaS (described above) to be extended to Hybrid Cloud.

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

The benefits of the Veeam disaster recovery solution :

• Efficient replication in image mode,
• 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 jobs will be integrated and auto-configured 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 major 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 Plan processes based on OpenStack technology:

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

Other notable points include Nuabee's ability to restart critical applications in just a few hours, compared with 48 hours on local infrastructures, and its ease of updating in the public Cloud.

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

Testimonial from Ludovic Dodin, IT Manager at AlterEos Groupe, a 335-employee company that runs a call centre and dematerialises documents.

Solution 3: Mismo and Double-Take for Microsoft servers

Mismo is an IT company offering a wide range of services, from infrastructure modernisation 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, the Double-Take software offers the advantages of being able to dynamically move, protect and restore applications from physical and virtual server environments, including remotely.

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

Today, the Double-Take solution enables us to guarantee 99.99% availability of servers and applications, giving us greater peace of mind when it comes to the risks of IT failure or disaster that our company could suffer.

Guy Armengaud, Administrative and Financial Director of Pyrétransit, a customs broker and organiser 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 should not consider an IT recovery plan as an option, but as a sine qua non for business continuity in the event of a problem.

In this article, we take a look at three solutions for disaster recovery: they 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!