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Why use FirstLight’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
- Everything You Need in One Solution – We provide the replication and automated recovery software, the cloud computing resources and the network services that your company will need to help eliminate downtime.
- Quick Data Recovery – Automated recovery that simplifies your DR plan during a downtime event means that your critical applications restore online within minutes and your IT staff isn’t burdened by complexity.
- Continuous Replication Without the Sacrifice – By replicating changes to your environment in real time, you’ll have an aggressive recovery point objective (RPO) of just seconds. Better yet, using unique technology powered by Zerto™, your production environment will not be negatively impacted by snapshots or other methods of replication common with other solutions.
- Simple, Budget-Friendly Pricing – There’s no longer a good excuse to go without a good DR plan. DR with FirstLight is simple, affordable and scalable.
Benefits
- Simple – Disaster recovery doesn’t need to be complex. Installation and management of FirstLight’s DR solution is remarkably easy.
- Secure – FirstLight takes security seriously and is HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, and PCI compliant. Furthermore, FirstLight manages its cloud from a former NATO Command and Control Center with dual authentication, redundant power and redundant fiber connectivity.
- Scalable – Not sure what your needs will be in a year? Protect your environment today and let the FirstLight cloud scale with you.
- Service-focused – Our team is there for you 24/7 but you remain in control of your environment and your DR plan.
- Verified – Know for certain that your DR plan will work. Testing is free and simple.
- Connected – FirstLight operates its own fiber optic network, which spans 9,600 route miles
Features
- Zerto software allows you to protect VMWare or Hyper-V environments
- Flexibility to protect your most critical applications or groups of VMs as you see fit
- Cloud computing resources mirror your production environment to ensure adequate levels of CPU, RAM and Storage (with appropriate IOPS levels).
- Onboarding and project management provided at no additional cost
- Self-service failover / testing, with 24/7 from an experienced and supportive team if you need it
- Replicate through the Internet or through a private Ethernet connection
- 1 Gbps Internet included for the cloud DR site to ensure adequate bandwidth during a failover
- Additional network options up to 100 Gbps available
- Monthly pricing plans
Compare Disaster Recovery from FirstLight with Do-It-Yourself or Public Cloud Options:
| Item | Do-It-Yourself | “Public” Cloud | FirstLight |
| Recovery Point Objective | Varies | Varies | Seconds |
| Recovery Time Objective | Varies | Varies | < 15 min |
| Support / project management during implementation | No | No | Yes |
| Self-service failover | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Award-winning replication software | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Robust cloud infrastructure | No | Varies | Yes |
| Easy failback to production side | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Journaling (point-in-time recovery) | Varies | Varies | Yes |
| Support 24×7 | No | No | Yes |
| Customization | Yes | No | Yes |
| 1Gbps internet (in the cloud) | No | No | Yes |
| Reduced complexity / burden for IT staff | No | No | Yes |
| Zero impact on production systems | Varies | Varies | Yes |
Contact us today to find out more, or request information from our sales team.