{"id":658512,"date":"2013-05-16T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=97947"},"modified":"2013-05-16T14:14:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T18:14:11","slug":"latisys-launches-disaster-recovery-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658512","title":{"rendered":"Latisys Launches Disaster Recovery as a Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud service provider <strong>Latisys<\/strong> has launched Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), a tailored service requiring no capital investment by the customer. The portfolio of DRaaS solutions ranges from simple offsite data backup to near-instantaneous continuous availability (geoclustering) services.<\/p>\n<p>Latisys DRaaS services feature a consultative approach, which that begins with a critical business impact analysis that distills the need for disaster recovery into three key concepts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">A company\u2019s recovery point objective (RPO) &#8211; how much data can you afford to lose?\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Recovery Time Objective (RTO) &#8211; how soon do you need to have your systems up and running?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> The Cost of Downtime &#8211; how much does an hour of downtime actually cost?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Our customers are increasingly asking for comprehensive DR solutions,&#8221; said Christian Teeft, VP of Engineering, Latisys. &#8220;In the past you had to maintain a completely redundant infrastructure at a cost of 2X, putting DR out of reach for most small-to-medium enterprises. Today we have a range of options that can be tailored to your specific RPO (Recovery Point Objective) RTO (Recovery Time Objective), making DR more affordable, more powerful and more effective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the traditional concept of cold, warm, and hot site Disaster Recovery, Latisys\u2019 DRaaS offerings include a wide range of options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Data Protection (cold)<\/strong> &#8211; Managed data protection using EMC Avamar. These managed backup services ensure that data can be restored from a disk\u2013a good option if cost of downtime is low, or if there is contractual or regulatory obligation to fulfill. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Storage Replication (warm)<\/strong> &#8211; Several options for storage replication are available, including using the HP 3PAR StorServ storage platform to replicate from the storage system to a remote location. This is ideal if RPO and RTO both need to be less than 12 hours. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Workload Replication with VMWare (even warmer)<\/strong> &#8211; VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM) maintains a scripted recovery plan to shut down specified virtual machines and automatically restore them to a recovery site. RPO is less than one hour and RTO is less than four hours. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Workload Replication with Microsoft (warmer still)<\/strong> &#8211; The Microsoft Hyper-V Replica function performs asynchronous replication over commercially-available broadband networks, enabling enterprises to perform manual failover in the event of a disaster. This form of hypervisor replication is a good option for smaller enterprises or those already invested in Microsoft technologies. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>Geoclustering (hot)<\/strong> &#8211; When cost of downtime is very high, Latisys can design active\/active geoclustered database replication and globally load-balanced sites with nearly instant failover. This is a good option for companies with thousands of transactions per hour. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><strong>The Latisys Cloud<\/strong> &#8211; Powered by the HP CloudSystem Matrix, Latisys\u2019 enterprise cloud infrastructure provides flexible and cost-effective access to DR compute resources.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The portfolio features a range of options, balancing the continuous availability needs of the high end of the market, with simplicity and flexibility needed for a large part of the market looking to get a DR plan together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Latisys has made the capital investment in hardware as well as the operating investment in people and processes to tailor a DR solution to specific customer requirements,&#8221; said Pete Stevenson, CEO of Latisys. \u00a0&#8221;DR is an increasingly important component of any enterprise IT business strategy and Latisys is focused on making DR both affordable and available so resources are actually there when businesses need them most.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud service provider Latisys has launched Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), a tailored service requiring no capital investment by the customer. The portfolio of DRaaS solutions ranges from simple offsite data backup to near-instantaneous continuous availability (geoclustering) services. 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