Business Disruption with Downtime Risk

Despite your best efforts, we know it is not possible to fully predict or protect against disaster or downtime. That is why it is crucial to be prepared to recover your data, should the worst happen.

What is the impact of downtime? How much money will you lose for every minute that your ecommerce site or website will be offline?  How about back office systems, inability to invoice, employees not working? And how about mission critical systems, or systems that run your production? It is not only the cost of losing sales and production disruption, how about bad reputation, dissatisfied customers and potential legal cases you may have?

Plan, Design and Deploy

Business continuity is how we are going to have your business up and running in the event of a disaster. It covers more areas and it is not that focus to specific IT systems. For example how are you going to continue serving our customers and remain operational in the event of a catastrophe? It also involves how you interact with your suppliers and partners. How are you going to respond in the event of a disaster?  Who does what, where and how? Business continuity covers the process and procedures that your business should follow and not only having our applications and data up and running.

This means that careful and detailed planning must be done based on two main objectives:

• Recovery point objective (RPO): how much data am I willing to loose until recovery?
• Recovery time objective (RTO): how much downtime can your business afford?

CL8 Business-Continuity-as-a-Service

Our proposed solution is based on Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, a purposed build service aiming to simplify and bring down the cost of DR projects. Our solution is affordable and now Disaster Recovery (DR) is not only for the huge enterprises and the banks.

After careful planning and design by our experts, in short, we replicate every Virtual Machine (VM) on Azure. All VMs are switched off to save costs, except some Databases or directory services that must be on, if available and pay only the storage cost. The network is setup correctly, so that in the event of failure users will be able to connect to the DR location, which is in Microsoft Azure, without interruption, after we “press the failover button”. This solution also offers the option to have DR outside your country of residence and covers business continuity in the event of political crisis, war and other country wide catastrophic events.

Service includes

Planning & architecture workshop

Define the customer’s business RTO and RPO requirements

Capacity planning using ASR tools to assess current environment

Define Azure, CL8 and customer on-prem infrastructure requirements

Estimated total DR cost to Azure: compute, storage, network, and Azure Site Recovery license cost, as well as CL8 hosting cost if required

Estimate deployment services cost

Solution architecture & environment readiness verification

Eligibility assessment

Best practice aduption

Solution deployment in a POC environment

Protection of customer Infrastructure

Azure services cost will be estimated at planning phase, not included in deployment services costs

DR test are much easier and simpler. We can do it in parallel, i.e. we don’t have to failover to the DR location and then fail back to our primary data center. We don’t have the stress of business disruption and data loss at every quarterly test!  This means that production continues to work from the primary site as usual and we start the Azure VMs, test them, test connectivity and our predetermined scenarios, without affecting production. For more information please see: PowerPoint Presentation (cl8.com)

Who are we?

Cloudlayer8 (CL8) is the only carrier neutral, state of the art Tier III Data Center in Cyprus offering cutting-edge Data Center services, Cloud and Managed services. The company’s mission is to provide secure, scalable and highly available Data Center services to business whose Information Technology is critical to their business success.

Why CL8?

CL8 can be the business strategic partner in Digital Transformation. Our unique capabilities to offer technology as-a-service elevate our deliverable to the top. We offer the technology transformation building block at a reasonable cost justifying the investment.

The CL8 Cloud can enable you to support your business 24-hour and engage with your customers, adapt to demand and unexpected circumstances in real time. CL8 Unified Public Cloud Architecture enables businesses to utilize Office 365 and Azure offerings like IoT, Big Data from a single provider. Work from home, mobility, collaboration and teamwork are the building foundations of digital transformation and CL8 is in the unique position to offer them being located in Cyprus, avoiding the need to use international internet, when not needed.

Our challenger mindset drives our customer transformation engagements. We actively listen, study the business needs, and “challenge” the decision makers to evaluate new ideas, from different points of view, because we understand their business and technology.

Cloud computing is a service, not a tangible item; so we guarantee our services and support with money back guaranteed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure our customers of our dedicated services.