There’s no easy way to put it; recovering systems from disaster is no easy task and oftentimes is a challenging and frustrating process. The worst thing is that the solution may not lie in just one single disaster recovery approach, making this a complex, interwoven, and case-by-case procedure. An all-new whitepaper by Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider Hexagrid (News - Alert) titled, “Hexagrid Computing: Cloud Disaster Recovery,” explains exactly how to prepare for disaster recovery using its disaster recovery solution. Be prepared – this isn’t just any disaster recovery solution.

There’s simply no comparison to Hexagrid’s award-winning Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud compting services and solutions. Now the secure, efficient, agile and simple services that so many have come to know and love is being pumped into an ultimate disaster recovery solution – based, of course, on Hexagrid’s exquisite Iaas - VxDatacenter. Hexagrid has proven itself to be a reliable player at the industry forefront in addressing this variety of commitments.

I don’t think I could say it any better myself, so read on for an excerpt from the company’s white paper itself:

“With Hexagrid’s disaster recovery services businesses have the ability to select from a range of offerings with defined recovery objectives and customized automated failovers. The platform includes options at different investment levels for completely private recovery environments, shared environments, or a hybrid of the two for the best of both worlds. These options are well-aligned with how businesses view their company data today from the most private data and “mission critical” applications to the less sensitive data and “non-mission critical” applications.”

Besides a company’s people, its data is notably its second most valuable asset; needless to say, it must be completely certain that it has a disaster recovery plan in place.

Would you want to lose all of your data? The thought alone should make you shutter.

Many companies, however, seem to have this at the bottom of their priority list for two specific reasons – they’re infamously complicated, requiring many coordinated components, and finding resources to dedicate towards a disaster recovery effort can be very difficult.

What many companies don’t understand, however, is that these issues can be very simply handled and managed, that is, if you have the right company behind you. By leveraging Hexagrid’s award-winning VxDatacenter platform, customers are offered three flexible, resilient, unparalleled options that best fit their needs, as elaborated upon in its accompanying data sheet:

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Hexagrid’s DRaaS solution emulates full datacenter “cold site” back-ups in a blended private cloud and collocation environment. Gone are the days where you need complete hardware and software redundancy costs – DraaS can save you up to 50 percent in disaster site build outs. Furthermore, all application, data, and network dependencies are imaged and backed up in real time, which will inevitably reduce a significant among of redundant hardware and software costs while enabling full recovery from any sort of catastrophic event.

Hybrid DR

Do you want your cake and to eat it, too? Then this is the solution for you, as Hybrid DR combines the best of both worlds. While one portion utilizes DRaaS, the other works like a traditional site-to-site DR, except even better – the secondary DR site is an IaaS cloud instead of a complete, replicated physical datacenter footprint. This serves as an excellent blend for business that have a mixture of applications in their IT environment. By using the Hybrid DR, businesses can leverage the benefits of DRaaS for more traditional applications while leveraging the power of the private/shared IaaS fabric for more complex/custom applications.

Cloud to Cloud (C2C) DR

Looking for all of the benefits of DRaaS, but already have an existing Hexagric hosted private cloud solution, or perhaps even your own existing internal private cloud environment? This is the solution for you, then. Hexagrid’s C2C DR makes it possible to maximize and enhance your current investment by replicating data between the two locations and allowing you to decide where it would best work for to have the application run, which can be done in either production or standby.

All of Hexagrid’s cloud-based disaster recovery solutions come fully managed with the following to guarantee peace of mind:

• 24/7 monitoring of cloud site infrastructure and operations

• Assistance with replication software setup

• Assistance with network implementations

• Annual assurance testing within business defined assurance intervals

• Post-event failback assistance

It won’t clean out your wallet, either, and here’s why:

• You’ll enjoy over 50 percent savings compared to home-grown solutions

• You can control your costs based on individual data protection needs – completely customizable for whatever works best for you

• Its private and share bursting capabilities mean you only pay for what you use when you need it.

• These new solutions eliminate expensive setup and maintenance costs associated with other less flexible platforms

Key features of Hexagrid’s disaster recovery solutions include total IT environment replication, uninterrupted data protection, self-service capabilities, and service and support.

To find out more about how Hexagrid’s unique disaster recovery solutions work, click here.

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