Disaster Recovery

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.  

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