Disaster recovery should be a fundamental linchpin in every organization’s IT strategy, but it frequently is not. The consequences of a natural disaster, man-made disaster, or network intrusion can cascade into catastrophe. Many organizations replicate their entire environment at a remote site, this is surely a good approach, but as most have found, not the most cost-effective.

The most resilient and cost-efficient disaster recovery option for your IT infrastructure is Clone Guard^®, an offsite-managed disaster recovery solution. Clone Guard^® Cloud computing environments, which come in secured private configurations, can be used to create virtual snapshots of your systems, applications, and file information on Clone Systems’ certified secure servers, which have a guaranteed 99.99% uptime. All data is accessible 24/7/365 utilizing secured virtual private networks. The result is your company’s environment never faces prolonged critical downtime, your business’ continuity processes will be clarified and leaner, and your service costs will be reduced, sometimes dramatically. Our private Cloud service, Clone Guard^® CG-DRCL^®, used in conjunction with disaster recovery best practices, provides your enterprise with the best and most affordable disaster recovery backbone available.

Utilizing Private Clouds for Business Continuity

Two out of five businesses that experience a disaster will go out of business within five years of its occurrence. This startling statistic underscores the urgency for having in place a fool-proof business continuity plan (BCP).

Our private Clouds are secure service conduits for maintaining data operations for mid- and large-sized enterprises in the event of a network failure. They offer unsurpassed security for sensitive data, scalability with minimal changes to configurations, device- and location-independence, and agile reallocation of resources. They represent the most-evolved and encompassing platform for assuring a business’s core resources remain unblemished in the face of a calamity.

The Cloud paradigm departs significantly from other disaster recovery strategies in its ability to process all data and to deliver it across a network without delay. Previously, haphazard implementations of fault-tolerant systems were fundamentally flawed either by an over-allocation of hardware, an inaccessibility to real-time data, or any number of subtle oversights than can completely undermine a company’s ability to resuscitate its environment.

Clone Systems is committed to private Clouds as the platform of choice for disaster recovery. Data is stored centrally within the Cloud and secured using dedicated firewalls, intrusion detection systems, antivirus and virtual private networks . Our private Clouds are nearly infinitely scalable. Maintenance is completely eliminated, as is the inefficient and expensive proposition of maintaining redundant systems. The private Cloud, as ephemeral as its name may sound, is in practice the most comprehensive and reliable disaster recovery solution that exists.

Private DR Clouds – Clone Guard^® CG-DRCL^®

Clone Guard^® CG-DRCL^® is Clone Systems’ patented private Cloud disaster recovery model. It is wholly and securely setup apart from all other private Clouds maintained by Clone Systems, and leverages all of the salient benefits of the Cloud paradigm.

Clone Guard^® virtualizes all data across your network, applies security, identity, service-level, license, and policy management provisions to the data, and facilitates dynamic resource allocation across the entire enterprise. The Clone Guard^® DR Cloud frees your system administrators from the complex and demanding tasks associated with setting up stand-alone servers during a disaster. Clone Systems manages all those tasks automatically and remotely, with no long-term contract requirements. Clone Guard^® replicates an organization’s IT environment identically in a secure cloud, which can be accessed across site-to-site VPN tunnels or dedicated circuits. All data transferred across a VPN uses 256-bit encryption.

CG-DRCL^® – Solution Features

The application of Cloud computing will become a revolutionary next step in the enterprise, but surely none is more immediately suitable or significant than for disaster recovery. Clone Guard’s platform-independence, elegant service-oriented architecture (SOA), security and flexibility make it a cornerstone resource for any IT department concerned with establishing a safe beachhead away and apart from the tempests of network meltdown.

No one at your organization needs to be present at our site to perform a full restore of your entire IT environment. The backups maintained can be sent to us securely utilizing VPN tunnels or encrypted tape media. All security mechanisms (firewall, IDS, AV, VPN) required to protect your disaster recovery environment are included in our base monthly fee.

Contact one of our representatives to discuss how a Clone Guard^® solution can be used to safeguard your organization from an unforeseeable disaster.