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Disaster Recovery Solutions

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benefits of DRaaS solutions

Protect your infrastructure with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) from Hyve

Prepare your business for the unexpected with our Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). We go beyond simple backups to meet your specific compliance needs and safeguard your business in the event of a disaster.

Your sites and applications will be replicated to a secondary certified and compliant DR site, hosted in one of our Tier 3+ data centres in multiple global locations, ready to failover if needed.

With a DRaaS solution, you will have the peace of mind that your infrastructure is protected, without the need to invest in or maintain your own off-site DR environment. We meet strict SLAs for disaster recovery with clearly defined recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs).

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What is disaster recovery?

Disaster recovery (DR) is the concept of continuing business operations after a disaster – any unseen event which could put your business at risk. This could be a natural disaster such as fire or flooding, or a cyber attack which may leave your infrastructure standing, but completely disrupt your business operations.

A disaster recovery plan consists of processes and procedures that are laid out specifically to be able to resume business as usual in the shortest possible time. This involves resuming access to applications, hardware, data, servers, networking equipment, power and connectivity.

We use the industry-leading technologies Zerto, Veeam, Nakivo and Doubletake for DR solutions, and can failover to Hyve, Azure and AWS cloud environments.

Nakivo, Zerto, Veeam and Double-Take Software

Choose the Disaster Recovery approach that meets your needs

Our disaster recovery solutions are tailored around your recovery requirements, with warm and hot DR options to suit different levels of resilience. Choose the approach that best aligns with your recovery objectives, infrastructure and tolerance for downtime.

Warm disaster recovery

Near-time recovery Our warm DR solution provides you with a secondary site, with changes from your primary site backed up as frequently as you choose. In the case of a disaster, the secondary site is booted up on demand.

  • Easy to set up
  • Network connectivity means data can be regularly synchronised
  • No need to maintain two live sites at the same time
  • Choose the regularity of backups
  • Higher RPOs and RTOs
  • Ideal for businesses that can tolerate minor downtime and data loss
Hot disaster recovery

Real-time replication and instant failover Our hot DR solution is fully automated and provides a fully equipped, replicated site able to fully function when a disaster occurs. The hot DR site is always live and can be tested at any point.

  • Automatic failover
  • Real-time replication using SQL, Always On, or MySQL Replication for databases, Robocopy for Windows servers, and R-Sync for Linux file servers
  • Lowest RPOs and RTOs
  • Lowest risk of data loss
  • Ideal enterprise-level solution for businesses that cannot tolerate any downtime or data loss

building resilience

Why does your business need a DR plan?

Disaster recovery protects you from the costs of downtime. Outages can cost anywhere from a few thousand to many millions in financial losses, as well as lost trust and negative reputation from your customers and users.

By implementing a robust DR plan, you can:

  • Minimise downtime
  • Prevent data loss
  • Maintain business continuity
  • Protect your business reputation
  • Avoid operational delays and financial losses
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what you need to know

Frequently asked questions about DRaaS

Cold DR site A 'bare-bones' secondary data centre or backup facility consisting of basic elements providing power, network capability and cooling. The site is unused until a disaster occurs, at which point backup data and additional hardware must be sent to the site and be installed. Warm DR site A warm DR site contains the elements of a cold site, and additionally has network connectivity, meaning data can be synchronised regularly from the primary site. It is not real-time, so updates are not instant. There is less operational capacity than the primary site. In the event of a disaster, the warm site is booted up and takes over from the primary site using the latest backup data. Due to the time to boot the site, there will be a small amount of downtime – this is known as near-time recovery. Hot DR site A hot DR site is a full mirrored copy of the primary site, including network systems, IT infrastructure and complete backup of data. Real-time replication meaning updates are instant and backups are complete. The site is always live, so in the case of a disaster, failover is instant, with virtually no downtime.

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