Flexential DRaaS to Protect Mission-Critical Workloads

Flexential announced a DR as a Service (DRaaS) offering, Flexential DRaaS.

This DRaaS is a flexible offering designed to answer the market need for a tailored solution that can protect complex IT infrastructures. The company was one of the pioneers in introducing cloud-based DR to the market in 2012, leveraging a team of experts to design modern, cost effective and reliable DRaaS solutions. This DRaaS gives organizations the option to customize their selection according to their business requirements and only pay for what they need. It is scalable and flexible, tailored to each business’s individual needs with support for all types of environments, including on-premises, cloud, colocation and hybrid, and allows customization to technical and business requirements.

“In today’s highly connected world, business uptime and data availability are critical for business survival. Even seconds of downtime or data loss can be extremely destructive, causing revenue loss, brand damage and legal impacts,” said Mike Fuhrman, COO, cloud and managed services. “Flexential, which has nearly a decade of experience in DRaaS, is now offering a new, scalable, cloud-based disaster recovery solution that will give businesses the highly available environment, redundancy and continuous data protection they need to keep their data safe.”

The company’s DRaaS is designed to protect organizations’ most critical workloads that require RPOs ofs and RTOs of minutes. The solution is powered by Zerto CDP, which provides journal-based recovery, allowing granular recovery of data from the point of just before a cyberattack. This is especially critical now, as there has been a 148% rise this year in ransomware attacks relating specifically to Covid-19 scams.

According to Forrester Research, “Covid-19 shined a bright light on every company unprepared to recover from a data center outage and refocused enterprise IT teams on improving resiliency.“^[1]

As businesses now work to ensure they are prepared when the next disaster strikes, the company is making data protection simple by designing, hosting and managing it for any organization. Its DR experts can guide organizations through the whole DR process from assessing the environment to designing, implementing and testing the entire DR infrastructure. The solution also saves organizations from overspending on data protection because it is a cloud-based, managed service that eliminates upfront investments in hardware, licensing management, and internal resource allocations.

The firm’s DRaaS is part of a end-to-end data protection portfolio designed to protect all systems and applications in a simplified and cost-effective way. The data protection portfolio offers DR as a Service (DRaaS) to protect mission-critical workloads, Backup as a Service (BaaS) to protect secondary/less-critical workloads, Object-Based Storage (OBS) for geo-dispersed storage, and archive storage for storing data for long-term compliance and security purposes.

The company also offers 5 DR centers in USA strategically located to provide coverage within 600 miles of most metropolitan areas, ensuring that customers are always covered.

^[1] Forrester 2021 Predictions: Cloud Computing Powers Pandemic Recovery, Dave Bartoletti, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Oct. 19, 2020.

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