Backup and Recovery Tools From US Signal

US Signal LLC introduced a suite of backup and recovery services giving data-intensive businesses the ability to meet or exceed their established DR plan objectives.

“Our data protection product set provides a competitive backup and recovery solution for our customers,” said Stephen Oyer, EVP sales and marketing. “US Signal owns and operates eight Midwest data centers and we have built our data protection suite around the geographic diversity and network connectivity of our current infrastructure, giving customers the option to choose which data center they would like their backup location to be.“

The company’s Backup-as-a-Service allows the customer to backup files or full physical or VM disk images to the company owned and operated storage architecture. Data is compressed between 50 to 70% on average, reducing the time and space needed to complete backups. Customers have the ability to set 1-30 days or indefinite retention schedules with RPO as low as one minute.

“What is also unique about this service is that it can be managed remotely as long as you have access to the Internet,” said Oyer. “All the customer needs is the ability to get online and they are able to restore their data from anywhere.“

For those who use the backup service, the company also offers RaaS, which allows customers to recover their backups to a Resource Pool or Hosted Private Cloud (HPC) environment. Customers have the option to choose from a reserved or on-demand recovery service. Reserved customers elect to have a Resource Pool or HPC environment on standby, which decreases their RTO by having pre-built compute environments ready for a customer declared recovery event.

With the purchase of backup and recovery services, the company provides a playbook detailing DR plans and processes. These plans are developed and maintained by US Signal and reviewed with the customer regularly, so that the US Signal professional services team is ready to recover and restore customer environments in the event of a disaster.

“Our recovery service gives our customers the option to begin working before the recovery is complete by making files needed available to the customer while the rest of the recovery is in process,” said Oyer. “And all recovery is managed by trained professionals, which frees up our customers’ time to manage their day-to-day business operations.“