The team at A Slice of the Cloud knows that downtime is never an option, and that your fail over rate must have as much continuity as possible. A Slice of the Cloud can deliver redundant architecture with automatic traffic re-direction and hot site mirroring, These solutions offer the very best in contingency planning while getting you back to running normally..
- Disaster Recovery Service
- On-demand Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery Management
Disaster Recovery Services
- We co-located and failover to a hot site—this eliminates the need for your internal staff to maintain secondary sites on their own. Our service provides geographic diversity without incurred costs on your end for maintenance-based site travel to your secondary facility.
- We tailor our automatic traffic redirection with failover parameters that meet the exact requirements of your business, ensuring seamless transition to secondary sites during emergencies.
- We have storage replication and mirroring replication available to assist synchronization of your servers to current site versions and data. Ă‚Â
On-demand Disaster Recovery
Many customers choose A Slice of the Cloud’s on-demand disaster recovery solutions to minimize downtime and the costs associated with disaster recovery planning. These services avoid longer processes involving server re-provisioning, new co-location facility networking, and data recovery through tape, and instead utilize processes and techniques to get customers back online quickly.
- Cold co-location – Servers are co-located at A Slice of the Cloud’s secure data centers racked and networked, but powered off, saving your maintenance time and reducing co-location costs.
- DNS hosting – A Slice of the Cloud manages domains to enable rapid redirection of web site traffic in the event that the backup site needs to be utilized.
- Site monitoring – As A Slice of the Cloud monitors your primary site, you will receive notification when it is inoperable or unreachable, prompting a rapid response and initiation of the failover process as necessary.
- Emergency technical support – A Slice of the Cloud’s expert engineering teams facilitate bringing backup sites live, as well as performing scheduled testing in emergency situations.
- Online Storage – We maintain hot copies of all critical data and applications for rapid recovery purposes.
Disaster Recovery Management
A Slice of the Cloud offers a broad array of disaster recovery management solutions, including replication software, process monitoring, and support. These services include:
- Replication bandwidth with a minimum of five Mbps for the entire environment
- Replication platform license
- IP address and VLAN planning
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition guest to be used as a VEM per VMware cluster housing a protected cloud server
- Initial VM application
- Replication of production servers
- Collaboration to perform two initial failover tests
- Infrastructure testing plan for failover testing
- Documentation of technical changes required to perform an actual DR failover or test
- Execution of identified logical changes to an environment which does not require authentication to an unmanaged OS environment
- Monitoring of replication and notification and associated escalation when replication fails
- Remediation of replication issues
- Maintenance of replication software and virtual appliances
- Initiation of the failover process upon your declaration
