Data Recovery and Business Continuity: 5 days implementation

Many organizations manage Data Centers hosted in private clouds or choose to externalize IT infrastructure to public cloud providers like Azure, AWS or GCP. Creating a reliable IT Infrastructure is the goal of any IT Department, but any complex system can fail in a similarly complex way. That’s why, to create reliability, you need to focus on resilience. Resilience starts with availability. Reducing the time when a company’s IT operations are not working as expected is very important. As important is the speed with which the data is being recovered after a potential data-loss scenario caused by either a human error or a cyber-attack. For a full-data recovery, you need to have in place a reliable backup system and a business continuity strategy.

One of the fundamental rules of the backup strategy (3-2-1) states to keep at least a copy of your data off-site, ideally in a different location from the primary source of data, that is located many miles away. If you have servers, databases, websites etc. hosted on-premises or at other public cloud providers, you can consider the Azure Backup and Site-Recovery services to help you achieve your resilience strategy goals.

It’s notably cheaper to implement a backup and site-recovery strategy in Azure and pay a monthly fee in a flexible and transparent manner, than buying replication servers, NASs’, switches, software license (ex. SQL Server with Software Assurance for an Active-Active scenario) for which you will most probably pay up-front.

With our Data Recovery and Business Continuity services you will get the following benefits:

• Based on your current workloads (Azure VMs, Azure File shares, blobs, On-premises files and folders, Hyper-V/ VMWare, bare-metal servers, NAS), you will receive recommendations for using the Azure Backup service which provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud

• Set-up the Recovery Service Vault, access policy rules, backup policies, monitoring & alerts

• Configure the backups, implement, and test a data-recovery plan

• Set-up Azure Site Recovery to replicate workloads running on physical and virtual machines (Hyper-V, VMWare, other clouds, Azure) from a primary site to a secondary location to keep business apps and workloads running during outages

• Recommendations for choosing the right VMs, disks, and network configuration (ex. Set-up VPN Gateway or Azure Bastion)

• Customize the recovery plan and run a disaster recovery drill for testing

• Cost Management overview, set-up budgets and alerts

The 5 days implementation is an estimated specialist/hour effort for workloads that consist of up to 4 servers. The duration and price may be different based on the complexity of your IT infrastructure and backup and site-recovery needs.

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