Ensono Cloud Disaster Recovery Managed Service
Simplify, Reduce Risk, and Gain Cost Efficiencies with a Fully Managed Disaster Recovery Service
Ensono’s Fully Managed Disaster Recovery Service
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape ensuring the availability of business applications and transactions is vital for any company utilizing infrastructure and business systems in the Public Cloud. Providing top-notch customer experiences in today’s digital world necessitates resilient cloud systems. However, the Public Cloud does not safeguard against data loss in the event of a regional outage or a complete data failure in the primary region. To mitigate such risks, cross-region disaster recovery is essential.
Did you know according to Gartner 72% of organizations are poorly positioned in terms of disaster recovery capabilities, with 63% likely suffering from “mirages of overconfidence.1?
And research from 451 Research2 shows that only 37% of organizations test once a year. Since the primary goal of a DR plan is to ensure that critical systems and data can be restored in the event of a disaster, without testing, businesses may find that their recovery procedures are incomplete, or the recovery time objectives are unrealistic. The cost of downtime has escalated, and extends beyond lost revenue, to include lost productivity, recovery costs, liability, and damage to a company’s reputation.
1 Market Guide for Disaster Recovery as a Service – Gartner 2023
2 Enhancing Application Reliability With Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service – 451 Research
“Fewer than 20% of respondents update these three aspects (Business impact analyses, risk assessments, and DR plans) of risk and recovery planning twice a year or more frequently. Having a long update cycle means that businesses are left unprepared for disasters related to new technologies and services or emerging cyber threats.”
– Forrester: The State of Business of Disaster Recovery Preparedness in 2024
Customized & Fully Managed Cross-Region Disaster Recovery Service
Ensono’s Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) service mitigates the risk of data loss and prolonged unavailability of critical business applications in the event of a regional Azure outage. This 24/7 managed service is tailored for customers using Ensono Cloud Flex Core Managed Cloud Services. It provides a comprehensive DR solution, including the management, maintenance, and support of data replication and continuous updates to the DR environment.
Key benefits:
- Assurance of Business continuity: Cloud DR provides a level of assurance for stakeholders, clients, business investors and compliance regulators that business critical data,
- Reduce Costs: Cloud DR can reduce operational overhead by focusing resources and effort on business development, rather than on managing the DR plan and conducting testing.
- Keeping Recovery Strategies Current: Regular assessment of infrastructure, latest technologies and business processes keeps the recovery strategy up-to-date. with the latest technologies and business processes.
- Ensure Compliance and Regulatory Requirements are Met: Validating the DR plan helps ensure compliance with these requirements, avoiding potential legal and financial penalties
- Continuous Testing: Ensono works with you to plan, prepare, execute, and remediate issues with periodic scheduled DR failover tests.
“Running a DR test is not enough. You need to have an effective method for distinguishing success from failure and measuring progress.”
– Disaster Recovery Journal: Disaster Recovery Testing Done Right: A Guide to Confirming Your DR Plan Is Ready to Go
Ensono’s Cloud Disaster Recovery Capabilities
There are four key elements to Ensono’s Cloud DR. All four are essential in providing a DR plan that assures business continuity in the event of a regional Azure outage. Ensono’s Cloud DR custom designed solution provides simpler approach – a single source of engineers that are intimately familiar with your production environment.
- DR Plan Creation and Technical Validation: A custom DR plan is created for each DR solution, and it is critical to the ongoing success of the DR recovery. It will include detailed technical instructions for each exact step of the client recovery.
- Orchestration and Change Support: Orchestration utilizing Azure Site Recovery (ASR) technology will automate recovery groups to restore VMs and their associated applications in a sequence. This way, your most important applications are restored first.
- Support of DR Failover Testing: Annual DR tests demonstrate effectiveness and provide proof to auditors that your data is recoverable within the required RTO. Testing is completely manged by Ensono, as is the required remediations that surface during the test.
- Support of DR Failover Event: During failover and recovery, Ensono engineers manage the failover. The team are on standby to investigate and resolve any technical issues during the failover and recovery process. After testing, cleanup tasks are done, and options for remaining in the second region or planning a failback are investigated.
With Ensono’s DR Managed Service for Azure we partner with your team to deliver customized recovery solutions to help ensure resiliency for your data and applications, minimizing the impact of unexpected regional disasters.