Nephos Technologies are leveraging public Cloud Services in order to provide your business with a highly available and competitively priced DR service. We believe that our approach to delivering this service will ensure that RTO's and RPO's for your business can be met (and in most cases exceeded) at a fraction of the cost. For more information on our service please download the brochure, or Email us on sales@nephostechnologies.com Dont forget to follow @NephosTech on Twitter too.

1. Disaster
Recovery
As
A
Service
The
DR
Problem
that
can
lower
costs,
and
use
of
automated
virtual
platforms
that
can
minimize
the
recovery
time
after
a
failure.
Many
businesses
rely
on
Disaster
Recovery
(DR)
services
to
prevent
either
man-­‐made
or
natural
disasters
from
causing
Virtualized
cloud
platforms
are
well
suited
to
providing
DR.
Under
expensive
service
disruptions.
Unfortunately,
current
DR
services
normal
operating
conditions,
a
cloud-­‐based
DR
service
may
only
come
either
at
very
high
cost
or
with
weak
guarantees
about
the
need
a
small
share
of
resources
to
synchronize
state
from
the
amount
of
data
lost
and
time
required
to
restart
operation
after
a
primary
site
to
the
cloud.
The
full
amount
of
resources
required
failure.
running
the
application
only
needs
to
be
provisioned
(and
paid
for)
if
a
disaster
actually
happens.
The
cloud
can
facilitate
disaster
Regardless
of
the
size
or
type
of
business
that
you
run,
you
need
recovery
by
significantly
lowering
costs:
to
have
a
disaster
recovery
process
in
place
in
order
to
ensure
that
your
customers,
be
they
internal
or
external,
can
continue
to
• The
cloud’s
pay-­‐as-­‐you
go
pricing
model
significantly
access
your
services
and
systems.
Like
any
insurance
policy
lowers
costs
due
to
the
different
level
of
resources
though
it’s
difficult
to
justify
its
expense
until
it’s
needed.
required
before
and
during
a
disaster.
• Cloud
resources
can
quickly
be
added
with
fine
What
is
DR-­‐as-­‐a-­‐Service?
granularity
and
have
costs
that
scale
smoothly
without
requiring
large
upfront
investments.
Cloud
computing
and
virtualization
opening
up
a
plethora
of
opportunities,
business
enterprises
are
discovering
that
a
lot
of
• The
cloud
platform
manages
and
maintains
the
DR
applications
can
be
availed
as
services,
DR
being
no
exception.
servers
and
storage
devices,
lowering
IT
costs
and
reducing
the
impact
of
failures
at
the
disaster
site.
Delivering
Disaster
Recovery
as
a
Service
(DRaaS)
or
DR
as
a
cloud
service
or
DR
on
demand.
DRaaS
as
a
model
is
gaining
popularity
among
enterprises
mainly
due
to
its
pay-­‐as-­‐you-­‐go
pricing
model

2.
The
Nephos
Cloud
DR
Service
Replication
to
cloud
virtual
machines
can
be
used
to
protect
both
cloud
and
on-­‐premises
production
instances.
In
other
words,
As
an
independent
Cloud
Services
Broker,
Nephos
Technologies
is
replication
is
suitable
for
both
cloud-­‐VM-­‐to-­‐cloud-­‐VM
and
on-­‐
perfectly
placed
to
offer
its
customers
DR-­‐as-­‐a-­‐Service,
with
low
premises-­‐to-­‐cloud-­‐VM
data
protection.
monthly
payments,
a
guaranteed
service
level
agreement,
and
24x7
monitoring.
Not
only
this
but
as
an
independent
provider
we
By
leveraging
our
brokerage
platform
and
our
ability
to
blend
Cloud
are
in
a
unique
position
to
be
able
to
guarantee
your
data
based
services,
Nephos
Technologies
are
able
to
offer
our
clients
a
sovereignty.
disaster
recovery
environment
that
exploits
the
cost
benefit
and
flexibility
of
using
public
Cloud
services
and
ensures
data
sovereignty
Nephos
Technologies
DR-­‐as-­‐a-­‐Service
offering
provides
for
your
business.
In
most
cases
any
single
Cloud
service
has
limited
enterprises
of
all
sizes
with
a
global
disaster
recovery
solution,
but
presence
in
any
one
region
–
we
are
able
to
use
multiple
providers
requires
no
expensive
hardware
deployment.
within
a
single
region
to
make
sure
that
you
always
know
where
Now
companies
can
have
all
the
benefits
of
comprehensive
offsite
your
data
is
held
but
without
the
cost
of
having
a
dedicated
disaster
recovery
protection
without
cost-­‐prohibitive
facility,
infrastructure
running
at
all
times.
equipment,
IT
management,
and
software
expenses.
Pay
for
email
disaster
recovery
back-­‐up
resources
only
as
needed.
Free
up
The
Nephos
Benefit
scarce
customer
IT
resources
for
your
business-­‐critical
projects.
As
an
independent
provider
of
Cloud
service
aggregation
we
are
able
to
ensure
that
we
have
the
flexibility
to
deliver
services
that
meet
your
needs
rather
than
opting
for
expensive
bespoke
built
co-­‐
location
services.
We
give
our
customers
the
following
benefits:
Our
solution
can
be
delivered
in
three
ways:
1)
Back
Up
to
and
Restore
from
the
Cloud
• A
replica
of
all
protected
systems
frequently
updated
by
incremental
backups
or
snapshots
at
intervals
set
by
the
Applications
and
data
remain
on-­‐premises
in
this
approach,
with
user
for
each
system.
The
user
determines
the
settings
data
being
backed
up
into
the
cloud
and
restored
onto
on-­‐ according
to
recovery
point
objectives
(RPO).
premises
hardware
when
a
disaster
occurs.
In
other
words,
the
• Full
site,
system,
disk,
and
file
recovery.
backup
in
the
cloud
becomes
a
substitute
for
tape-­‐based
off-­‐site
• Fast
SLA-­‐based
data
recovery.
In
most
cases
service
can
be
restored
in
under
45
minutes
backups.
• No
need
to
make
expensive
capital
purchases
2)
Back
Up
to
and
Restore
to
the
Cloud
• Pay
as
you
grow
service
with
transparent
cost
model
• Vendor
independent
service
In
this
approach,
data
is
not
restored
back
to
on-­‐premises
• 100%
data
sovereignty
guarantee
infrastructure;
instead
it
is
restored
to
virtual
machines
in
the
• DR
rehearsal
that
demonstrates
the
viability
of
the
DR
cloud.
This
requires
both
cloud
storage
and
cloud
compute
plan.
resources.
The
restore
can
be
done
when
a
disaster
is
declared
or
on
a
continuous
basis
(pre-­‐staged).
Pre-­‐staging
DR
VMs
and
keeping
them
relatively
up-­‐to-­‐date
through
scheduled
restores
is
crucial
in
cases
where
aggressive
RTOs
need
to
be
met.
3)
Replication
to
Virtual
Machines
in
the
Cloud
For
applications
that
require
aggressive
recovery
time
(RTO)
and
recovery
point
objectives
(RPOs),
as
well
as
application
awareness,
replication
is
the
data
movement
option
of
choice.
Nephos
Technologies
Suite
18250,
Lower
Ground
Floor,
145-­‐157
St
John
Street,
London,
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4PW
www.nephostechnologies.com