Road to Uncompromised Security and Continuity: Architect a Smart BCP on the Azure Cloud
Cloud-based Disaster Recovery is a reliable strategy to overcome downtimes and improve recovery periods via automated administration. As the world’s leading application-focused Cloud Managed Services Provider and an Azure Expert MSP and Microsoft Gold Partner, Cloud4C’s best-in-class DR-as-a-Service is designed to keep enterprises safe from disasters and unforeseen circumstances. DRaaS on Azure is designed to help enterprises get uninterrupted services. It also adds invaluable resilience to enterprise workloads, databases, and operations as a whole.
Azure Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical and/or virtual servers, databases, applications, workloads on the Microsoft Cloud that are implemented and fully managed by Cloud4C. The 4-way DR framework across multiple regions or cloud availability zones ensures high availability and zero data loss irrespective of circumstances. This unique capability ensures that all enterprise IT workloads and databases are synchronized and auto-copied across 4 locations with varying degrees of military-grade security and connectivity.
40%-60% of small businesses never reopen after a disaster
Downtime costs between $10K to $5M per hour
83% of organizations reported experiencing more than one data breach
Blueprinting Operational Resilience and Business Continuity on the Azure Cloud: Implemented and Managed by Cloud4C
72% of businesses are unable to meet their expectations for IT disaster recovery.
Cloud4C has provided Disaster recovery as service solutions to more than 600+ companies worldwide. The unique 4-way Disaster Recovery architecture for maximum availability and near-zero downtime is implemented for zero loss, null disruption outcomes. DRaaS with Azure is cost-effective delivering best-in-class benefits over many traditional models. With Azure DRaaS, you’ll avoid unnecessary expenses like buying and licensing your servers, along with hardware and software. With Cloud4C, you’ll also cut down on maintenance expenses.
Azure Cloud-based disaster recovery model has gained immense popularity among enterprises because it offers high availability storage, networking and file synchronization, auto data replication, and duplication properties along with automated backup and recovery. Businesses can implement it in their architecture irrespective of their ecosystem size, complexity, and differences across locations of presence.
Azure DRaaS: The Major Business benefits
Invest in DR Strategy on Azure Cloud – It is Not Too Late
Evaluate infrastructure
Assess your current environment and identify requirements
Develop strategy
Determine the appropriate methods, services and tools to meet the need.
Implement and Test
Deploy Azure Services and ensure rapid, reliable recovery.
Minimal Downtime
With Cloud4C Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service, enterprises can reduce their downtime and data loss exposure for critical business functions. Azure Disaster Recovery offers high-end capabilities that can eliminate downtime exponentially.
Avoid Data Loss
Loss of data will not only cause financial damage but will also kill your reputation in the market. Enterprises can seldom recover from issues like these. With Azure Disaster Recovery Strategy, you’ll find the best way to ensure that not even the smallest fraction of data is lost during a disaster irrespective of the threat’s nature.
Lower CAPEX
A significant reason why Azure DR Solution from Cloud4C is highly sought-after is that it provides cost-effective measures without dipping the quality. With us, enterprises can also take advantage of the pay-per-use model. It is a better way to manage expenses compared to buying the complete suite. It doesn’t restrict them when it comes to expansion, and they can make modifications to full capacity whenever required.
No Business Interruptions
Business interruption harms business growth and employee productivity. Events like floods, fires, earthquakes, and even man-made errors can halt internal and external operations. A disaster recovery setup would ensure that your operations continue without pausing your business. It will also allow a better transition between the cohesive business units to get back on track.
Protect Mission Critical Applications
Azure Cloud Disaster Recovery strategy offers best in class security and high standard compliance related to cryptographic algorithms, key management and data encryption. Cloud4C and our team of experts ensure the safeguarding of mission-critical applications while minimizing interruption of critical processes.
Connect with our DR experts for more information on Azure DRaaS
Develop The Best Azure Disaster Recovery Strategy
As a Microsoft Gold Partner and an Azure Expert MSP, Cloud4C understands your business requirements. We hold long-term expertise when it comes to developing a disaster recovery planning strategy on Azure specifically tailored to address specific and situational operational needs. It is developed keeping the criticality of data and applications, RTO, and RPO requirements in mind.
RTO is the maximum length of time that your given application can be offline. RPO is the maximum acceptable duration of time during which data may be lost from your application due to any incident. Additionally, we can guide backup methods (snapshots, AMIs, etc.), frequency, retention periods, locations (Azure availability zones), and pricing to help you develop the most cost-effective disaster recovery strategy on Azure.
This involves a quick Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Hot DR is ideally used and absolutely vital for Mission Critical applications such as core financial and banking applications.
Focus on applications and infrastructure with a slightly higher RPO and RTO. May involve non-core banking applications, DMS, MOSS and print and file servers.
This has a slightly higher side of data recovery time compared to the Hot and Warm DR, involving a higher RTO and RPO. Used ideally for Non Critical applications.
It involves backing up your systems and restoring them from backup in case of any disaster. We implement strategies that help reduce your backup footprint using a method of deduplicating data at each node, job, and site. As a result, you get speed backup and faster recoveries. Cloud4C is known for its global deduplication systems that efficiently execute bare metal recoveries.
Backup And Restore
Cold DR
Warm DR
Hot DR
Multi site:
Active/active
Low
High
RPO / RTO: Hours
- Lower priority use cases
- Restore data after event
- Deploy Resources after event
RPO / RTO: 10s of minutes
- Less stringent RTO & RPO
- Core Services
- Start & scale Resources after event
RPO / RTO: Minutes
- More stringent RTO & RPO
- Business Critical Services
- Scale resources after event
RPO / RTO: Real-time
- Zero downtime
- Near zero loss
- Mission Critiical Services
Hot DR Multi site: Active/active
Warm DR
Clod DR
Backup And Restore
High
Low
RPO / RTO: Hours
- Lower priority use cases
- Restore data after event
- Deploy Resources after event
RPO / RTO: 10s of minutes
- Less stringent RTO & RPO
- Core Services
- Start & scale Resources after event
RPO / RTO: Minutes
- More stringent RTO & RPO
- Business Critical Services
- Scale resources after event
RPO / RTO: Real-time
- Zero downtime
- Near zero loss
- Mission Critiical Services
Expertise with Azure Native DR Solutions
Azure Backup
Streamlining data protection at cost-effective returns
Azure Site Recovery
Designing and running a cloud-native DRaaS
Azure Archive Storage
Archive databases on the cloud at economical prices
Schedule a free disaster recovery audit. Speak with a Cloud advisor to start developing a disaster recovery plan.
True ownership and tailored solutions by Cloud4C
Cloud4C embodies only the best practices to leverage the cloud for disaster recovery. From implementing, configuring, maintaining, and testing, we give you fully-managed DRaaS so your IT resources don’t have to worry. We provide you with the platform, tools, documentation, and process management in support of goals and guarantee restoration up till the primary site, post DR.
We provide customised DR solutions based on the criticality and impact on business of each workload while assuring end to end ownership and SLA-based commitments for predictable results including recovery during DR times and resumption after DC stabilisation.
Failover Assistance
Cloud4C’s highly specialized team would help you plan the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO), for greater agility. We put a digital strategy in place by codifying the steps that enable enterprises to withstand unexpected outages. Failover from your data center to Azure cloud or, if your production workloads are already in Azure cloud, we use cloud-to-cloud replication to another cloud environment in a different location.
Cloud4C prides in being one of the few partners globally to achieve Nine Azure Advanced Specializations
Cloud4C | MSP + Advanced Specialization + Competencies
Advanced Specializations
Modernization of Web Application to Microsoft Azure
Threat Protection
Windows Server and SQL Migration to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop
Linux and Open Source Database Migration to Microsoft Azure
SAP on Microsoft Azure
Analytics on Microsoft Azure
Kubernetes on microsoft azure
Networking Services in Microsoft Azure
Competencies
Cloud Platform
DevOps
Datacenter
Data Platform
Cloud Productivity
Security
Data Analytics
Small and Midmarket Solutions
Application Integration
Application Development
Cloud4C End-to-end Disaster Recovery Services on the Azure Cloud
Cloud4C’s unique workload management platform supports multiple clouds and hybrid deployment scenarios irrespective of configurations and applications. Cloud4C has an upper hand when it comes to DR solutions built on the Azure cloud.
Automated Solutions for Disaster Recovery
Cloud4C’s Azure DRaaS Model gives you tailored and multi-tenant software integrated with our managed services platform. You will also find the advantage of fully-customizable orchestration for applications, DB recovery over the cloud, or enterprise DR.
Cloud4C empowers customers to manage and monitor the application recovery with automated switchovers and DR drills. You can also enable the DR capability and carry out the related operations which include DR drill or actual failover testing. Through these capabilities, you can also ensure that all the tools are updated as and when new Azure features are released.
Consulting Services for Designing the BCP and DR approach
- Cloud4C team works with business owners to assessment their current scenario and define the best BCP and DR approach for their various workloads
- Architecture planning
- Proof Of Concept
- Azure Onboarding
- Design and Plan High Availability Architecture
Replication support
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR), Azure Native and Industry leading 3rd Party tools
Total Ownership
- Implementation
- manage Entries Applications
- Evaluations
- Performance Tuning
- Built High Availability Architecture
- Restoration up till the primary site post DR
End-to-End Managed Services
- 24/7 monitoring of DR set up with Ownership of DR SLA
- Focused and efficient delivery from technologies/services based centres of Excellence
Cost Optimized
- DR on demand model enables Pay only when you use options for the enterprise
Continuous Improvement
- Robust Change and Learning Management process
- 2 Drill per annum with simulation of DR events
Cloud Platform Native
(Snapshots in Multi region, Object storage replicas in Cross Region, Extended Cluster for Microservices)
OEM Certified Replication
Tools
(SQL Always on, Log Shipping, SRS, HRS, Oracle Data Gaurd, File Sync)
DR on Azure Cloud - Supported OS & Databases
Cloud4C’s DR model is designed to create customized solutions for individual businesses. The solutions are available for various operating systems, including most existing versions of Linux and Windows. We offer innovative solutions for databases that require large VMs and are bound by licenses to physical systems.
- Production-grade systems to support Oracle, SQL Server, HANA, and other databases including open source such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Hadoop, and more.
- Network support for data throughput speeds up to 160 GBPS
- Support for large virtual machines
- Support for physical servers within your secure cloud footprint
- Available solid-state disk within your secure cloud environment
DRaaS - 24*7 Global and Regional Support
Cloud4C helps deploy your web presence across Azure availability zones, high availability clusters in the green (group) datacentres and pods set up globally so that if a primary location ever goes offline, a secondary location will kick into action in a manner that is seamless and transparent. The end-user experience is par excellence as a result and business never skip a beat.
Global Footprint | Headquartered in Singapore
USA | LATAM | Europe | APAC | Middle East | India
Europe
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- UK
- Potugal
North America
- USA
- Mexico
- Canada
South America
- Colombia
Middle East
- UAE
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Turkey
South Asia
- India
- Sri Lanka
Asia Pacific
- Japan
- China
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- indonesia
- Phillippines
- South Koria
- Vietnam
- Hong Kong
ANZ
- Australia
- New Zealand
1 North America
- USA
- Mexico
- Canada
2 South America
- Colombia
3 Europe
- Netherlands
- Switzerland
- UK
- Potugal
4 ANZ
- Australia
- New Zealand
5South Asia
- India
- Sri Lanka
6 Asia Pacific
- Japan
- China
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- indonesia
- Phillippines
- South Koria
- Vietnam
- Hong Kong
7 Middle East
- UAE
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Turkey
26 Countries - 52 Locations- Local In-country services
- Certified and skilled Global SMEs
Security and Compliance during Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery is a complex and multi-faceted operation and during a disaster, all your resources and energies are focused to ensure a speedy and complete recovery. However, security attacks and data breaches are more likely to happen when you are in the most vulnerable state. That’s why it’s of paramount importance that systems and data are always secure (at rest or in transit), especially during a DR operation.
Cloud4C frameworks, methodologies, processes and people are pre-compliant with leading regulations and standards in the industry and in different geographies. This is why you can trust us to manage and augment your Business Continuity programs.
Endpoint Intelligence
Security devices
Servers and mainframes
Network and virtual activity
Data activity
Application activity
Configuration information
Vulnerabilities and threats
Users and identities
Global threat intelligence
Suspected Incidents
Prioritized incidents
Understand
Reason
Learn
Advanced Orchestration
Privacy
Security
Action
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Tier 1 Analyst
Security monitoring
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Tier 2 Analyst
Incident escalations
Security Analysis
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Tier 3 Analyst
Threat Hunting
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Incident Response
Response planning
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Endpoint Intelligence
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Security devices
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Servers and mainframes
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Network and virtual activity
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Data activity
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Application activity
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Configuration information
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Vulnerabilities and threats
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Users and identities
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Global threat intelligence
Suspected Incidents
Prioritized incidents
Advanced Orchestration
Privacy
Security
Action
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Threat & Risk DetectionInstrumented Alerting and Security analytics
Tier 1 Analyst
Security monitoring
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Investigation and Qualification
Understand
Reason
Learn
Manual Security assessment requiring skilled resources
Tier 2 Analyst
Incident escalations
Security Analysis
Tier 3 Analyst
Threat Hunting
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Incident ResponseGuided or automated response processes
Incident Response
Response planning
Addressing Global Compliance needs
Switzerland
United Arab
Emirates
India
Indonesia
Australia
Singapore
Malaysia
Oman
Saudi Arabia
Industry Specific
Worldwide Standards
Why Partner with Cloud4C and Azure Cloud for your DR and BCP requirements?
Trusted Azure MSP across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas for 12+ years
4000+ transformation stories across 26 nations
World’s only firm to secure 9 Azure Advanced Specializations
2000+ certified cloud experts and dedicated Azure Center of Excellence
Certified people resources on ITIL, COBIT, CDCP, CISA, CISSP, CISM, Six Sigma, PMP CCIE, MCP, CEH, and more
Industry-best Availability and Scalability
Advanced Identity & Access Management (IAM)
Cost-Effective Pay-as-you-go Model Cloud
26 Centers of Excellence (Azure, SAP on Azure, Automation, Managed Security Services, Cloud Managed Services, and more)
Recognized Azure Expert MSP, Microsoft Gold Partner
Migrated/managing 40000+ VMs
AIOps-driven automation in Cloud Operations
Robust compliance regulations adhering to international and local business standards
On-demand volume creation using dynamic provisioning
Rapid implementation of Cloud4C powered automated Azure DR setup
24x7x365 monitoring of Azure DR setup
Zero friction business delivery model
4-tiered cloud-based DR services with customized DR capacity
Supports hybrid and multicloud managed expertise on Azure, rich cloud-native tools management expertise
Comprehensive disaster recovery and BCP portfolio Presence in 50+ global locations
Success Stories
Port Management Firm:
AIOps Managed Services and DRaaS equips one of the World's largest port management and 3PL logistics firm with streamlined Business Continuity.
Middle East Energy Leader:
One of the largest Private Oil and Gas Companies streamlines migration of SAP Workloads to Azure coupled with record uptime, zero disruption to business as usual.
Middle East Food and Beverages Leader:
F&B giant successfully achieves business continuity through Cloud4C Hybrid Managed Cloud Services for mission-critical SAP on Azure workloads.
Global Ceramics Brand:
Global ceramics brand reduces 40% in TCO through effective Azure-based SAP Workloads management at uninterrupted continuity.
Azure Disaster Recovery as a Service - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
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What is Disaster Recovery as a Service?
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Disaster Recovery as a Service is a cloud service model that enables data backup and IT infrastructure in a third-party cloud computing environment.
Organizations opting for DRaaS get all the DR orchestration to regain access and functionality to IT infrastructure after a disaster.
Irrespective of it being an as-a-service model, the organizations using the service don’t need to own all the resources or handle all the management for disaster recovery. They will get all the solutions through a service provider.
It is an effective solution that reduces the downtimes and loss of critical data.
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How Does Disaster Recovery Work in Azure?
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With Disaster Recovery set-up, Azure’s virtual machines continuously replicate data at different locations.
In the case of a disaster-like event caused by natural or human activity, the organization can failover the VMs to a different location and continue their operations from there.
When systems resume at the original location, they can failback and restart their access at the primary location.
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What is RTO and RPO for Azure Disaster Recovery?
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Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are critical components of the Disaster Recovery Framework.
These benchmarks decide the best ways to handle data during a disaster and are set as per the enterprise’s requirements.
RTO is the time duration required to restore all data and applications during a disaster.
RTO minimizes downtime and service disruption.
RPO designates the acceptable loss of data due to the disruption of service during a disaster.
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