Hybrid cloud in the form of backup and disaster recovery can be a great fit for organisations who don't want to carry the cost of an expensive Co-Lo or secondary data centres, but still need the assurance of being able to recover in the event of a disaster.
We recommend the Microsoft Azure Site Recovery tool (ASR) for rapid offsite cloud or on premise recovery of IT services. ASR provides an array of business and technical benefits, including:
- Operational Monthly Costs
DR is charged to the business as an ongoing OPEX cost - Easy to Use Management Tool
The whole process is managed from the cloud in the Azure Resource Manager portal - UK Data Centres
Stay in line with Data Sovereignty requirements and guarantee your data stays in the UK - Array Agnostic
There is no dependency on specific storage manufacturers or protocols - Unlimited Testing
Recreate your environment in an isolated bubble network without affecting the live servers, also allowing replication to DR to continue in the background - Server Protection
ASR has the ability to protect physical servers as well as virtual environments, so that the entire estate can be protected with one tool
As a Microsoft Gold Partner for Cloud Platform, we can provide a Proof of Concept (PoC) for Azure Site Recovery which illustrates how applications, workloads and data can remain accessible during periods of downtime.
To find out more about how we can help you with ASR, click the below link:
- By Alex Grevatte-Ball (Senior Technical Consultant)
