Why Implement Disaster Recovery?

There is a high cost of business downtime. It includes loss of revenue/sunk costs, lost productivity, impacted financial performance, damaged reputation and a new and challenging competitive mix. While you are waiting to restore your IT infrastructure, you still have to pay salaries or suffer a possible public relations disaster. Additional compelling reasons for businesses to deploy DR solutions include:

• Increasing regulatory requirements (e.g. Government agencies, financial institutions).
• Increasing awareness of protection of shareholder value.
• Compliance with insurance policy conditions.

FusionStorm’s new IT Xpress DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) for VMware

The Cloud has created a new paradigm for Disaster Recovery by making it easier, more flexible and more affordable. It allows business of all sizes to reap the benefits of lower total cost of ownership while taking advantage of business continuity, enhanced scalability and increased flexibility of the IT organization.

IT Xpress DRaaS for VMware is an "always on" hosted disaster recovery solution where FusionStorm is responsible for deploying and managing DR solutions and services required to support an organization's mission critical activities. Designed to benefit businesses by eliminating the need for upfront capital expenditure for in-house IT expertise, and hardware deployments it:

• Is based on VMware's SRM 5.0 and vSphere 5.0 technology
• Provides cost-efficient DR services protecting your data from geographical and other disasters
• Simplifies management of recovery and migration plans
• Automates failover and migration processes for reliable recovery

IT Xpress DRaaS is less complex, faster to implement and more affordable than legacy DR solutions, making it perfect for customers of all sizes and types.  Provided completely as a service, there is no hardware or software to purchase, no data center space to acquire, no special skill sets required and is compatible with applications running on VMware vSphere.  It is especially well-suited to customers who do not have a second data center for disaster recovery. 

Available through multiple data center locations in the U.S. and in Europe IT Xpress DRaaS provides flexible and customizable Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) backed by FusionStorm’s SLA. It also features built-in, VM-optimized data replication based on vSphere Replication technology, but can also be integrated with third-party data replication technologies such as EMC RecoverPoint. We include automated failover and failback management and bi-annual (twice a year) DR failover testing as part of the service. 

IT Xpress DRaaS Solution Choices

FusionStorm has two offerings for IT Xpress DRaaS making it easy for customers to order the solution that best fits their needs.