Recovery-as-a-Service Overview

If your company is like our customers, you've realized that it's not practical to keep doing non-core IT activities yourself. Companies of all sizes are turning to third-party services to handle their data protection and recovery needs.

The hybrid model lets data and workloads migrate in either direction, giving customers flexibility in where to run primary applications, where to backup and where to failover.

nScaled has created a Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution that lets companies replace their backup, business continuity, disaster recovery and archiving solutions with a single, integrated platform. The nScaled approach provides protection and recovery for:

• Data (files and databases)
• Servers (OS, application, configuration and data)
• Entire data centers

nScaled calls this Three Phase Workload Recovery.

Three Phase Workload Recovery

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All workloads (OS, application and data) are protected at three levels, based on the type of recovery that might be needed.

With nScaled, workloads automatically move through the three phases, based on customer policies, requiring no manual effort at all.

In the Local Recovery phase, workloads are snapshotted as often as every 15 minutes. Typically, a week's worth of snapshots are saved. The snapshots are stored locally, on the Local Cloud Appliance (LCA).

Recovery of data or a single server does not require a failover to the cloud, and instead happens over the LAN for maximum speed and efficiency. The process is simple and customers do it themselves, with no need to declare a disaster and call nScaled.

Servers can be spun up as virtual machines inside the LCA to replace failed servers, or they can be mounted as storage devices for data recovery.

In the Remote Recovery phase, the snapshots are replicated from the local storage to the nScaled Remote Cloud Data Centers for off-site storage. This provides true DR protection, allowing customers to failover any and all of their servers to nScaled in the event that they lose their data center. nScaled Support is available 24x7 to assist.

In the Archiving phase, safe, economical long-term storage is provided for older snapshots. Archiving provides for data recovery only, and replaces existing backup solutions. Workloads can be archived for as long as needed by the customer, based on their policies and any regulations that may apply. Tapes and vault services, and all the costs and hassles involved with them, are a thing of the past.