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Maintain Business Continuity When Disaster StrikesDisaster recovery is an absolute necessity for any enterprise. When disaster strikes you need to react quickly. Getting back up and running fast and recovering data and transactions with little loss can mean the difference between continued business success and failure. With a carefully designed and thoroughly tested disaster recovery plan you can protect your infrastructure and data, help ensure continuity of operations, and meet compliance regulations.

Not having a disaster recovery solution is not an option, but maintaining an offsite, secure, reliable disaster recovery site is expensive, complicated, and requires specialized IT skills and tools. Moving disaster recovery to the cloud and consuming it as a service gives you the recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTOs and RPOs) you require, while reducing the capital and operating costs associated with maintaining disaster recovery capabilities on your own. Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) delivered by a Cisco Powered™ cloud provider partner is a safe, tested, and reliable solution that lets you recover quickly, securely, reliably, and cost effectively.

Validated, Certified, and Verified Solutions for All Your Disaster Recovery NeedsCisco Powered DRaaS supports disaster recovery for your physical and virtual servers from your data center to a Cisco Powered cloud provider virtual private cloud (VPC) (Figure 1). It also supports disaster recovery of your virtual machines hosted in a Cisco Powered cloud provider VPC environment to a remote Cisco Powered cloud provider VPC environment (Figure 2). Whether your workloads and data are in your data centers, in the cloud, or both, Cisco Powered DRaaS, delivered by a Cisco® cloud partner, can support all your disaster recovery requirements.

Figure 1. DRaaS to the Cloud Offers Disaster Recovery for Physical and Virtual Servers from Your Data Center to a Cisco Powered Cloud Provider VPC

Service providers replicate data and create shadowVMs in the cloud. Shadow VMs are bootable instantly.Achievable RPO of <15 minutes.

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Benefits• Continuous data protection

with fast recovery times with reliable recovery points

• Reliable disaster recovery for both physical and virtual environments

• Lower capital and operating costs by out-tasking disaster recovery and eliminating the expense and complexity of creating and managing your own infrastructure, tools, and skill sets

• Protect your data center and cloud-based workloads and data

• Storage agnostic so you don’t have to change your environment to use Cisco Powered™ DRaaS

• Simple deployment with immediate business continuity and IT environment replication

Figure 2. Intra-Cloud Disaster Recovery Provides Disaster Recovery of Selected Virtual Machines Hosted in a Cisco Powered Cloud Provider VPC Environment to a Remote Cisco Powered Cloud Provider VPC Environment

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Intra-Cloud disaster recovery provides recovery ofworkloads running in the cloud by replicating themfrom one datacenter to another within the cloud.

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Our partners are certified and audited to help ensure that your data and operations are protected so you can focus on other important tasks during a disaster.

The Cisco Powered partner designation helps ensure enterprise-class services that are as reliable, or more reliable, than your own services. With Cisco Powered DRaaS, you can be confident because:

• Your services are built and delivered on proven architectures that have been validated by Cisco to deliver superior levels of professional service, security, and support.

• Your provider has met rigorous certification criteria for delivering Cisco Powered services, including 24-hour support and ITIL® certification.

• Every service has been audited by an independent third party to help ensure that it meets Cisco’s configuration and performance standards.

• Security is the top priority in the design, deployment, and maintenance of Cisco Powered cloud services. You can incorporate DRaaS with confidence, even in environments with the most stringent security requirements.

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“No one lives in a protective bubble. So long as there are natural disasters and technical failures, customers will continue to regard disaster recovery (DR) and cloud-based Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) as valuable services.”

TechTarget http://searchcloudprovider.techtarget.com/guides/Cloud-disaster-recovery-guide-The-value-of-DRaaS

Next StepsSee how Cisco Powered DRaaS can help your IT organization deliver more value today. Contact your Cisco partner or Cisco representative to learn more.

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To find a certified Cisco Powered DRaaS provider, visit https://tools.cisco.com/WWChannels/LOCATR/performBasicSearch.do?keyWord=Cisco%20Powered&address=&country=US&preferredLanguage=EN.