The rise in ransomware attacks and data breaches in recent years has highlighted the importance of data security. Not only large enterprises, but also small and medium-sized businesses have become targets of these attacks. Businesses are increasingly reliant on data, which means there is a growing need for security.
Although you cannot predict when data loss may happen, you can at least make sure your organization has the right solutions to restore critical assets. IT managers must ensure that their organizations have backup and disaster recovery procedures in place.
In today's information systems, especially when it comes to enterprise IT infrastructures, data backup systems are critical. Large enterprises, SMBs and start-ups all recognise the importance of creating backups. It is particularly important in the banking, insurance, retail, IT, telecommunications and healthcare sectors. For example, banks need to retain transaction data, medical organisations need to have access to patient information, etc. Ensuring proper data recovery is one of the key requirements to support business continuity, as the loss of corporate information can lead to serious downtime and losses.
Backup-as-a-Service powered by Veeam
As customer demands continue to grow, so does the backup market. Where once organisations had to deploy their own infrastructure, today they can store backups at a remote site. The advantage of this approach is that there is no need to maintain an on-premises infrastructure.
The leader among backup systems with cloud backup capabilities is Veeam. The company is a pioneer in the market for the latest technologies in data availability and currently offers several advantageous solutions for organising data backup and recovery. Veeam offers a fast and reliable way to move backups to remote cloud locations, as well as data recovery. The solutions are well aligned with the '3-2-1' backup rule, which states that three conditions must be met to ensure reliable data storage:
- Keep three backups;
- Use two types of media for storage;
- Store one copy remotely.
Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup & Replication is a flexible and reliable solution for protecting the cloud, virtual, physical, and SaaS systems. It helps to improve data protection and eliminate downtime. With an easy-to-use management console, you can perform fast, flexible and reliable backup, recovery, and replication for everything that is important to businesses and their operations. The company can protect all the data, regardless of location or workload type.
Key features include:
- Robust backups for any workload, reduced backup time, and lower operational costs;
- Backup, restore or migrate any workload to the cloud platform and back, including data protection features;
- Express recovery of files, virtual machines, NAS devices, and applications while maintaining a low RTO;
- Image-based replication and enhanced disaster recovery: increased speed, security, and availability;
Veeam's automated recovery solutions address many of the challenges organizations face when they need to respond quickly to change. Automatic recovery verification boots backed up virtual machines from a backup to ensure that replicas will work when needed. Veeam Backup & Replication dramatically reduces backup and recovery time - processes that currently take days can be completed in minutes.
Final thoughts
Cloud4U offers fully integrated cloud Backup-as-a-Service, replication, and recovery solutions powered by Veeam solutions. Our backup and recovery services provide convenient offsite storage without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining an offsite infrastructure. All data is stored on a secure remote platform with no third-party access. Our experts will help you set up the right backup plan with the required RTOs and RPOs for your infrastructure. You can master the 3-2-1 backup rule without investing money and resources in a second site and without increasing bandwidth.
