cloud backup and recovery

5 common misconceptions about Disaster Recovery demystified!

Bobby Varghese

An organization’s data is recognized as the most vital asset. Companies who do not understand the importance of data backup and recovery are less likely to survive in the modern economy. According to a recent study, an hour of downtime can cost a small business around $8,000. Despite this, companies fail to invest in Disaster Recovery. Another study showed that 51% of small businesses still use local hardware-based backup solutions for their data which makes them vulnerable to data loss caused by various natural and unnatural disasters.

Below are 5 common misconceptions about Disaster Recovery:

Disaster Recovery is expensive: Business leaders often assume that having a robust disaster recovery plan will require high investment to hold copies of all servers, storage, and networks in a secondary data centre.

Cloud-based Disaster Recovery or Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) helps the organizations to move their enterprise applications to secure cloud locations where they pay only for the storage they use thereby reducing costs.

Our backup is on the on-site server: Organizations argue that their data is backed up on the on-site server and that they’re covered in case disaster strikes.

DRaaS is about minimizing the downtime after a disaster. Having a robust Disaster Recovery strategy will help the organizations to restore their operations quickly and in a highly automated fashion.

We work in a region with a pleasant weather: Organizations usually feel that because they’re working in a region with a generally good weather, they’re not susceptible to outages.

Organizations can face outages as a result of human error, malicious attacks, power outages or bad coding other than weather conditions. Thus, every company should have a robust contingency plan to be able to recover from a disaster.

There are no outages in our organization: When it comes to outages, they may temporarily go unnoticed but those small losses add up and become expensive over a period of time which can have a negative effect on the company’s revenue.

Organizations need to pay attention to outages in order to implement an effective and a reliable Disaster Recovery strategy.

A little downtime can be handled easily: Business leaders argue that because most of their systems are not customer facing, they can handle a little downtime easily. With the increasing demand for instant responses from organizations online, even a little downtime can lead to a massive impact on the customer loyalty which will further affect the revenue.

We conclude by saying that without having a proper contingency plan, companies run the risk of incurring high monetary and non-monetary losses like outages, downtime, loss of data, low employee morale, loss of reputation, and lower revenues. Thus, a robust disaster recovery strategy is important to run a successful and a secure business.

Sysfore Technologies partners with Infinity

Shantha Kumari

The Sysfore Technologies has added another name to its growing list of Partner network. The Infinity, a Stamford Technology Company, is the global provider of Life Science Enterprise Level IT services for biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies of all size.

Having operations in the United States, Canada and India, the Infinity has invested heavily in developing intellectual property for drug safety, enterprise quality management, regulatory, compliance and lean value chain optimization for the biotech, pharmaceutical and medical device companies of various size.

Infinity company logo

The Sysfore Technologies is both Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and AWS Cloud Consulting Partner India. It is the leading system integrator (SI), specializing in building systems for enterprise clients using cloud, mobile and responsive web technologies. We serve a global client base, offering Consulting, Technology and Managed Services.

As a Gold Certified Partner, Sysfore has demonstrated expertise in Microsoft technologies and a proven ability to meet customers’ needs and make a smooth transition to the Azure Platform.

As the AWS Cloud Consulting Partner India, Sysfore can help you design, architect, build, migrate and manage your web and mobile applications on the AWS platform. It provides a secure, flexible and resilient cloud environment for your responsive web development and ERP implementations.

Infinity can gain from Sysfore’s experience and cloud expertise to provide vast industry specific solutions, deep technology expertise and a diverse portfolio of services, to help the customers optimize their business processes, maximize usage of the latest technologies, and drive innovation across their organization.

Growing Cloud Partnership

The Infinity can leverage Sysfore’s Cloud Solution for Microsoft Azure or AWS, that help enterprises smartly connect intelligent capabilities needed to become the digital business. It can gain from the agility and economics of cloud computing with the reliability and security of an on-premise IT environment.

The Sysfore’s cloud offering include cloud consulting, application, mobile and web development, cloud managed services, cloud migration and deployment services.

It creates custom application solutions which enable organizations to achieve the competitive advantage within the continuously changing technology world. It has proven experience in various technologies like .NET, Java, PHP and other open source platform, to design, deploy and run applications across on-site, mobile, web and cloud based platform for multiple industries.

Sysfore Cloud Advantage

Whether it is creating a new solution, application or updating an existing one; Sysfore has an excellent development and support team to give you the best execution of application development services.

This cloud partnership allows both of them to help accelerate their client’s growth.
We offer a complete range of value added service in the application development and customization field:

• Optimize performance, costs and business continuity.
• Create a new class of applications that leverage the hybrid cloud platform.
• Provide a clear cloud road map which assesses, creates, deploys and migrates applications or infrastructures to the cloud.
• Seamlessly manage integration and automation of SaaS, IaaS and PaaS workloads, between Microsoft private and public clouds, or between cloud and on-premises.
• Auto-scale, burst and dynamically provision for capable applications across Microsoft cloud.
Here Is wishing both the Sysfore Technologies and the Infinity a long and successful partnership based on true collaboration, trust and mutual benefits.

You can contact us at  info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555, +91 9845189275 or +91 9845698669 to know more about this growing partnership.

Disaster Recovery is Broken… Don’t blame Your IT! Switch to Zerto DR

Shantha Kumari

We hear a lot about the ease of cloud, the flexibility of cloud – the ability to cut down on your costs and consume only what is required. The correct term would be “cloud bursting”. If this were that simple, then every business would be queuing up for this opportunity. They would not have to spend time, resource and money on significant and complex cloud migration projects.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity for a New World

Disaster recovery is more than just a strategy in your business continuity plans. It is a crucial part that will get your business back online in the event of any natural or manmade disaster. What most organizations don’t realize though is that the right disaster recovery solution will also deliver IT resiliency.

Zerto is more than just replication and DR. Zerto provides enterprise-class disaster recovery and business continuity software specifically for virtualized data centers and cloud environments. It is offers enterprise workload mobility, from a product that works exclusively in the virtual layer. That means they can move applications and data, in a consistent state, in a few clicks, with just a minute or so of disruption and also between different hypervisors and clouds.  

Zerto DR Equipped for any IT World

Sysfore and Zerto – a Viable Partnership

Cloud DR is the basis for deciding when, where and how to move your business to cloud. With Zerto, effective DR is possible within the private cloud, to the public cloud and in the public cloud.

Zerto partners with Sysfore, the leading Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) to offer a cloud based business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) service, enabling businesses of all sizes to protect production applications both to the cloud and in the cloud. Having extensive Cloud DR expertise, Sysfore offers Zerto Cloud DR Ecosystem and services powered by Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) 4.0 — a platform for secure, non-intrusive, cloud-based BC DR for private, hybrid and public clouds.

Get in touch with our DR experts and we’ll give a free assessment on implementing Zerto’s DR solution for your business.

Disaster Recovery Solution from Zerto

Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication technology is the first disaster recovery system that lets Cloud Service Providers offer cost-effective, automated, enterprise-class DR as a Service. With Zerto, cloud providers can deliver a solution that is:

  • Multi-site — the ability to replicate between more than one site, enabling you to support many customers.
  • Multi-tenant — full integration with multiple platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, AWS and Cloud, which enables centralized and simplified management of all virtual data centers as well as effectively leverage resources within the cloud to realize economies of scale.
  • Array agnostic — replicates any customer environment to your cloud regardless of their storage vendor or architecture
  • Deployed quickly and remotely — installs remotely in hours without requiring any changes to the customer environment
  • Tested and validated anytime — recovers customer applications in your cloud with one click of a button
  • Granular — allows customers to pick specific applications to protect, regardless of their physical server or storage location
  • Comprehensive — provides robust replication and offsite backup in one simple product
  • Consistent and reliable — provides scalable, block-level replication with RPO of seconds and RTO of mere  minutes

Implement Zerto’s Disaster Recovery solutions in your business, to avoid costly outages. Installation of the Zerto Virtual Replication software can be completed in under an hour, even for complex applications. By replicating at the hypervisor level, Zerto simplifies replication and recovery into a three-click process.

Contact Sysfore’s Cloud Disaster Recovery experts thorough info@sysfore.com or call us at +91-80-4110-5555 to know more.