Do’s and Don’ts for Disaster Recovery Planning
Following these do’s and don’ts for disaster recovery planning can help ensure you create a well thought out, comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
Make US Signal's DRaaS an integral part of your DR plan, and meet your RPO and RTO requirements.
With US Signal's Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), your primary production environment will be continuously replicated to a US Signal cloud environment or between two US Signal virtual data centers. When needed, a fully replicated instance of your environment can be deployed with just the click of a button.
US Signal’s DRaaS solution leverages Zerto Virtual Replication technology. It's available as a fully managed or self-managed solution to fit your applications, business requirements and budget.
The fully managed DRaaS solution will be setup, monitored and maintained by US Signal engineers, and includes documented RTO and RPO SLAs and a full DR playbook. The self-managed DRaaS option allows you to replicate to one or more US Signal purpose-built DRaaS clusters using US Signal's licensing or your existing perpetual enterprise licensing with Zerto.
Both options allow you to test your DR solution up to twice per year for free.
Flexible
Both fully managed and self-managed options available to meet business requirements and budget parameters.
Efficient
If a disaster occurs, recovering individual applications or entire data centers is as easy as clicking a button.
Compliant
US Signal's DRaaS solutions are built on infrastructure audited for PCI DSS and HIPAA compliance
Advantages
- Continuous replication and simplified failover operations maximize application availability
- Multi-cloud replication agility simplifies workload mobility to protect, recover, and move workloads
- Reverse replication to source site during failover to maintain data synchronization
- Granular point-in-time recovery with write-order fidelity across all protected virtual machines in a single virtual protection group (VPG)
- Journal-based, continuous replication with built-in data compression reduces bandwidth needs during initial sync and for ongoing replication compared to snapshot-based solutions
- Test disaster recovery scenarios or software patches on a complete production replica without impacting production
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Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
Use this checklist to assess your disaster readiness and determine what you need to create an effective DR plan or enhance an existing DR plan.
Guide to DR Planning
There’s no time like the present to get DR planning underway to help your company mitigate the effects of potential data loss and downtime. In this eBook, we’ll cover several topics you should consider when developing a DR plan.
Complimentary DRaaS for 60 Days
For a limited time, new DRaaS customers the chance to setup replication and begin protecting their critical assets without having to pay monthly fees for the first two months (60 days).