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Cloud services combined with backup and disaster recovery services are ideal for businesses looking for a one-stop-shop supplier with secure and compliant cloud hosting. Our team of senior trusted advisors recently met with a provider who offers these solutions. Here are some key insights into this supplier’s background and how their products can potentially transform your cloud and disaster recovery capabilities.
Provider Overview
With more than 25 years of delivering IT services and 11 years of cloud and disaster recovery expertise, this supplier offers numerous services, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Backup as a Service (BaaS), Object Storage, O365 backup and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).
This growing company has 10 global locations throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. They have acquired many accolades, including Zerto’s Cloud Partner of the year in 2016 and 2017; Veeam Impact Partner in 2015, 2017 and 2018 and 2018; and the Best of VMWorld 2018 Gold Award for virtualization and cloud infrastructure platform.
This provider is compliant with more than 20 certifications and frameworks, such as HIPAA compliance, legal and financial compliance, and GFPR compliance. They also offer various security features through a cloud platform that includes vulnerability scanning and security alerting, encryption, anti-virus/anti-malware, deep packet inspection, log analysis, two-factor authentication, VPN, and identity access management (IAM).
Featured Offerings
This supplier’s best-in-class offerings include the following.
DRaaS – This supplier is well-known throughout the industry for its DRaaS solutions, so much so that it earned Gartner Leader in Magic Quadrant for DRaaS in 2016, 2017 and 2018. They protect your business from accidental deletion, malware and viruses, disgruntled employees, natural disasters site/hardware failure.
The provider’s secure DRaaS cloud allows your IT workloads to be replicated from virtual and physical environments to their advanced security cloud infrastructure. This supplier empowers customers to achieve their Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in minutes of self-service and managed options while eliminating costly secondary sites. They also work with Zerto for on-premise virtual workloads and for customers of the on-premise Veeam availability suite.
Object Storage – Object secure cloud storage provides web-accessible data, cloud storage for archive, and cloud-tier for extending local storage. It helps extend your on-premise storage to the cloud and efficiently secure, manage and retain your data long-term with secure cloud object storage. Managed through an exclusive cloud console, the object storage is integrated with other data protection services along with DraaS and BaaS.
IaaS – This self-service cloud infrastructure was built to meet the dynamic needs of your business, whether short- or long-term. Your business can now spread the consistency of your on-premise security and compliance practices into their secure cloud, without compromising control or visibility.
The supplier boasts a more white glove approach than other major cloud providers. Their team is an extension of your IT department and easily manages cloud and disaster recovery workloads in a secure and compliant environment.
BaaS – BaaS services protects your business from accidental deletion, malware and viruses, employees with malicious intentions, and single-site failures. With BaaS from this provider, secure cloud backup integrated with Veeam Cloud Connect technology offers a cost-effective cloud solution for offsite backup and archiving needs.
Office 365 Backup – This company offers Office 365 data for Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive for business. This is backed up daily in the secure cloud and includes unlimited storage quota and an unrestricted retention policy with a 100 percent uptime guarantee. The supplier can also limit the number of years for storage – for example, if you need to keep it for seven years, then it would be removed after that time.
If you’d like more information about DRaaS, cloud or backup from this provider or other suppliers, feel free to reach out to our team of experienced technology advisors.
We work with various DRaaS and cloud providers in our extensive partner network, so we can offer side-by-side, objective comparisons to assist you in identifying the product that meets all your professional needs. On top of that, you won’t have to pay more to work with us than you would if you went directly to the supplier, due to our price parity guarantee. Contact our team of trusted advisors to learn more at 877-599-3999 or sales@stratospherenetworks.com.
