Solution Brief
Simplify and Automate Disaster Recovery
with SimpliVity
Recent headlines and high-profile IT outages demonstrate
the importance of having a reliable disaster recovery plan
in place. Whether it’s a major airline, a regional bank, or
the small shop down the street. Every business is at risk.
The cost of downtime is almost $9,000 per minute on
average i. And for IT, it’s personal. During recovery, IT staff
are subjected to enormous stress, scrutiny, and late nights
away from family. With so much at stake, it’s no surprise
that companies of all sizes are looking to improve their
readiness for a disaster or unplanned outage.
But building a robust disaster recovery plan is challenging
– and often costly. Storage based replication is highly
complex. Network bandwidth costs are high. And DR
automation is too expensive for many businesses. Left
with these options, many rely on offsite backups and tape
storage solutions that could take hours or days to recover.
This means, cost-effective and reliable disaster recovery
remains a distant vision that is always out of reach. Until now.
Hyper-Efficient Built-In Data Protection
SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure is taking the cost
and complexity out of disaster recovery.
SimpliVity reduces the number of devices in the data center by 90% on average ii. It is also the only hyperconverged
infrastructure solution with built-in data protection that
displaces third-party backup and recovery for nearly half of
our customers iii.
It’s no surprise that SimpliVity customers reported a 70%
improvement in backup and disaster recovery in a recent
independent survey iv, while 63% of SimpliVity customers
reduced their recovery times from days or weeks to hours
or minutes v.
Automated Recovery with RapidDR
For even greater protection, SimpliVity offers RapidDR,
a disaster recovery automation solution that speeds up
and simplifies the offsite recovery of workloads deployed
on SimpliVity.
With SimpliVity RapidDR, it’s even easier for organizations of all sizes to improve their recovery time objectives.
RapidDR replaces manually developed runbooks with
automated recovery workflows. That means that when a
downtime event occurs, you can get back to business with
just one click, quickly activating all virtualized workloads
at your recovery site according to your pre-defined plan.
RapidDR helps you to:
• Plan for recovery with a simple step-by-step built-in
planning guide
• Improve compliance and reduce risk with a proven
DR strategy
• Reduce recovery times by 70% compared to manual
procedures, with one-click activation
• Simplify recovery with a fully integrated, single
vendor solution
The power of SimpliVity data protection is based on its
inherent data efficiency. Only SimpliVity performs global
inline deduplication of all data at inception, across all storage tiers, including backup.
The best part? RapidDR is offered at a fraction of the
cost of competing automation tools.
SimpliVity’s built-in data protection capabilities deliver:
Disaster Recovery as a Service
• Always full logical backups. Take full logical backups with
no incremental chains or dependencies on parent VMs.
For organizations that prefer to outsource their disaster
recovery plans, there are a wide range of SimpliVity
Cloud Service Providers that provide full-service disaster
recovery as a service (DRaaS). Many offer flexible per-VM
pricing so you pay only for what you need to protect.
• Near-zero overhead. Back up VMs every few minutes
with virtually no impact on running applications.
• WAN-efficient offsite replication. Reduce bandwidth
costs by transferring only unique data between sites.
• Rapid recovery. Restore a 1TB VM in just 60-seconds,
backed by SimpliVity’s HyperGuarantee.
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Solution Summary
Merlin Entertainments uses SimpliVity to power and protect IT operations at its resort theme parks and midway
attractions. Each site is backed up to a regional data center for disaster recovery. With SimpliVity, extended service
outages and lost data are a thing of the past. Recently,
when the company’s revenue-critical contact center application failed, Merlin system administrators reverted to a
previous working version in minutes, avoiding lost ticket
sales and hotel bookings.
SimpliVity is a recognized market leader and the only
hyperconverged solution to feature built-in backup
and replication that displaces third-party solutions.
SimpliVity RapidDR speeds up and simplifies the offsite
recovery of virtualized workloads running on SimpliVity
hyperconverged infrastructure through automation.
And your choice of on-premises or cloud-based models
satisfies diverse business needs.
“We have a 3TB file server in our
California LEGOLAND property that
used to take two full days to backup
using EMC NetWorker. With SimpliVity
we back up and restore that same
server in under a minute.”
– Sean Channon, Global Infrastructure Architect,
Effective and affordable disaster recovery is no longer
out of reach. SimpliVity gives you peace of mind that your
business will stay up and running, and out of the headlines.
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ource: Ponemon Institute: http://www.emersonnetworkpower.com/
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en-US/Resources/Market/Data-Center/Latest-Thinking/Ponemon/Documents/2016-Cost-of-Data-Center-Outages-FINAL-2.pdf
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ource: Forrester Total Economic Impact Study, sponsored by SimpliVity,
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“The Total Economic Impact of SimpliVity Hyperconverged Infrastructure”,
November 2015.
ource: IDC White Paper, sponsored by SimpliVity, “SimpliVity HyperconverS
gence Drives Operational Efficiency and Customers are Benefitting,” April 2016.
Ibid.
Source: TechValidate. TVID: AB9-336-72D
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