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Cloud Computing
Disaster Recovery Moving Into the Cloud
Cloud computing is one of the most talked-about trends in IT, and the market for cloud services is exploding. In fact, IDC says cloud computing was a $17.4 billion market in 2009, but is expected to grow to $44.2 billion in 2013.
Why is Cloud-based Disaster Recovery Appealing?
There are two primary reasons. First, by definition cloud computing implies that the workload in question is running somewhere else – and this is one of the major tenets of any serious recovery plan. Secondly, it shifts the cost of the secondary facility (sometimes the most expensive aspect of disaster recovery) to someone else’s budget.
Neverfail Solutions for Cloud Computing
- The Neverfail Continuous Availability Suite eliminates planned and unplanned downtime for end users and critical business applications.
- Supports any combination of physical and virtual environments, making it easy to deploy in most public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.
Recover to the Public Cloud
- The Neverfail Continuous Availability Suite eliminates planned and unplanned downtime for end users and critical business applications running in private clouds
- Supports any combination of private cloud platforms including VMware, Microsoft and Citrix
- VMware’s vCenter Server Heartbeat (a Neverfail OEM) provides proactive protection against planned and unplanned downtime for VMware vCenter Server.
- Neverfail vAppHA provides complete, application-aware protection for critical applications hosted on private clouds and integrates with VMwareHA and VMwareFT.
Protect the Private Cloud
- Ease the transition to cloud computing by effortlessly migrating existing workloads to on-premise private clouds or public clouds simply and securely.
- Enable the “hybrid cloud” by bridging public and private clouds and moving production workloads back and forth between your datacenter and IaaS public clouds.
Move Seamlessly Between Cloud
Considering the Cloud for Disaster Recovery?
- Understand your organization and how your users interact with your IT infrastructure. Select a cloud-based solution that is appropriate for your organization’s needs and the way you work.
- Find out if the cloud application and vendor you are selecting can provide the high availability and disaster recovery SLAs that you require. What level of availability is included as part of the standard platform?
- For workloads they cannot be moved to the cloud, consider using IaaS cloud computing vendors as a way to provide disaster recovery for on-premise applications.
- Check references on your cloud vendor. Check some that were not supplied by the vendor as well. For disaster recovery, you should also check references based on geographies, specifically those in known disaster areas like hurricane alley or along a fault line.
Neverfail Product Overview PDF
