Disaster Recovery - Azure Site Recovery

60% of small businesses fail within 6 months of a cyber-attack.

Source: Cyber Security Ventures

Help your business to keep doing business—even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness and dependability. Deploy replication, failover and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your IT services running during planned and unplanned outages.

By replicating servers to Microsoft Azure, the cost and complexity of maintaining a second datacentre for disaster recovery and all the equipment within it is mostly eliminated.

Key Features:

• Dedicated secondary data center is replaced by combination of Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Azure Site Recovery Manager (ASR)
• Replicas of primary site sent to ASR disaster recovery site
  • Exact copy of primary site server
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest
  • Performance assured, as Azure has required capacity on tap
  • Software defined and integrated networking to ensure required network is in place
• Costs of maintaining secondary data center mostly eliminated:
  • No hardware capital expenditure or licensing costs for firewalls, switches, servers, storage or racks
  • Reduced operations costs; no power, network or rack rental charges
  • Reduced support costs, less equipment to maintain
• Increased security:
  • Encryption at rest
  • Encryption in transit, Azure Security Centre,
  • More ISO standards than any other Managed Service Provider data centre and IaaS.