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• Business Continuity Terms
• Disaster Recovery DRaaS
• Fully Managed Backups
• Secure Offsite Backup
• True Offline Backup
• Fixed Cost S3 Backup

Business Continuity FAQ:

• • We charge for actual space used by Backups or Replicas at some of the lowest rates in the industry.
  • We have Veeam Backup and Replication available as SaaS/Rental so you pay only for what you use, while you are using it.

1. 1. The local Backup, the offsite Backup, and the Replica.
   2. Two (2) devices are the local backup repository and the offsite backup repository.
   3. The one (1) copy offsite is either the Replica VM or the offsite Backup.

Business Continuity Terms

3-2-1 Rule

• Three (3) copies of protected Data on at least two (2) different storage devices with one (1) copy located at a secure remote location such as VMsources Secure Cloud

Antivirus

• Antivirus products continually scan for known Virus Signatures on protected systems.
• Antivirus systems can not protect against new vectors (Signatures) which have not been published by the Antivirus vendor.

Auditing and Compliance

• Auditing and Compliance are the processes by which facilities and systems are compared against known standards by Qualified Auditors who then create reports which certify the facility or system is in Compliance with the standards used, or make note of exceptions.

Backup

• A Backup is an indexed archive of systems and data, usually compressed, and which needs to be Restore(d) prior to accessing the archived data.

Backup Copy

• A Backup Copy job sources a (usually) Incremental Backup and copies the data to an alternate location. Backup Copy jobs are the normal source for Offsite Backup(s) and have the advantage of being non-disruptive if it takes many hours to transfer data to an Offsite location such as VMsources Secure Backups.

Backup Repository

• A random-access storage system which can be used as the primary target of a Backup.

Best Effort

• Best Effort represents resources which are not reserved or pre-assigned and may not be available in the event of greater than normal demands on Infrastructure, such as during a large regional Disaster event.

CDP

• Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is near-synchronous Replication of data from source to target.

Cloud Computing

• Cloud Computing provides ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.

Compute Resources

• The resources required by the active state of a computing system while it is powered on (CPU and RAM).

CPU

• Central Processing Unit (CPU) provides logic, controls I/O and performs all calculations based on information stored in RAM.

Datacenter

• A secure and audited location where Cloud Computing resources are housed.

Disk/vDisk/HDD

•  computer Disk (AKA: vDisk, Virtual Disk, Hard Disk, HDD, SSD) is a non-volatile, random-access storage system on which data is stored.

DR

• Disaster Recovery (DR) is the notion of how an Organization would recover following a Disaster such as physical loss of data (such as in a Fire), logical loss of data (such as in a Ransomware Event) or temporary loss of data (such as during a power outage).

DRaaS

• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a combination of Service Levels which includes at least Secure Backup and Replication.

DR Plan

• A Disaster Recovery Plan is the written and documented procedure for an organization to recover during / following a disaster.

DR Test

• A Disaster Recovery Test is the execution of the DR Plan sufficient to demonstrate that the Organization could recover following a disaster.

Endpoint Protection

• Endpoint Protection differs from Antivirus in that it looks for specific behaviors which represent suspicious activity on protected systems. When discovered, Endpoint Protection will isolate (“quarantine”) systems until reviewed by an authorized administrator.

• Some Endpoint Protection platforms are comprehensive enough to be considered to be complete Antivirus replacement, while others need to be used in conjunction with traditional Antivirus systems.

Failover

• The process by which Replicated VMs are powered on and prepared for use using alternate resources, such as at a DRaaS Datacenter.

Full Backup

• A Full Backup is an archive of protected data and systems which can exist on its own, without any other supporting files.

Grandfather-Son (GFS) Backup

• Long-term retention of full backups on a schedule (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly).

Hardened / Immutable Repository

• Veeam Hardened / Immutable Repositories are tested and proven by Cohasset Associates meeting the requirements for non-rewritable, non-erasable storage as specified by SEC 17a-4(f), FINRA 4511(c) and CFTC 1.31(c)-(d) – WORM Equivalency.

Hypervisor

• A platform which draws resources from its physical host hardware and allocates those resources to VMs which run as independent and isolated systems.

Incremental Backup

• An Incremental Backup utilizes one Full Backup followed by successive increments of the data which contain only the portion that has changed since the preceding Incremental Backup. When a Restore is needed, the restoration process requires the last Full Backup plus all the Incremental Backups until the point of restoration.

MFA

• Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is a process which requires external validation, in addition to the username/password combination. The most common form of MFA is 2FA (2 Factor Authentication) which sends a “push” notification or uses a hardware hey in addition to the username/password combination to validate users.

Offsite

• To a geographically separated location, usually with a minimum distance requirement of 100 KM., but possibly much more depending on: Power Grids, Flood areas, Geologic earthquake zones and much more.

Onsite

• To the same location as active Workloads and mission-critical data.

Pool

• Shared resources, such as IP addresses, CPU, RAM and Disk which are assigned Best Effort.

RAM

• Random Access Memory (RAM) stores volatile data which can be accessed and changed frequently while a computer system is powered on.

Replication / Replica

• Replication provides a ready-to-run (immediately accessible) Replica copy of a Virtual Machine at an alternate location. The primary advantage of Replication is that Replicated systems require no Restore prior to being accessible.

Restore

• The process of extracting data from a Backup and placing that data in a location where it is accessible. The Restore process is often time-consuming, depending on the format of data and systems used.

Restore Points

• A Restore Point is the state protected by a Backup Job each time it runs.

Retention Policy

• Retention Policy is the number of Restore Points which will be kept.

RPO

• Replication Point Objective is the time between Replication cycles that occurs in Asynchronous Replication. When met, the RPO is the maximum period of data loss to be expected.

RTO

• Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the amount of time for systems to be functional after a disaster, including the time required to update public DNS and other service pointers. RTO can vary from just a few minutes for DRaaS protected systems to many hours for systems which need to be restored from Secure Offsite Backup

S3 Object Storage

• S3 Object Storage systems may be deployed to retain bulk or long-term Backups which were created targeting a random-access repository. S3 Object Storage is not suitable for random-access or transactional data, and cannot be used as the first generation of a Full Backup or Incremental Backup because it does not support the locking and sharing mechanisms needed to maintain a single, accurately updated version of a file. 

Cloud Security relies on order, but that order must come from the intelligent application of principles and standards, as opposed to the endless creation of highly specific rules. 

Let our team will assist your team in understanding the principals of ITSM Cloud Security and Vulnerability Management at a fundamental level.

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Disaster Recovery as a Service DRaaS is a combination of Service Levels designed to offer comprehensive protection for your Organization through any concievable event. VMsources can have your entire IT infrastructure protected in less than a week!  Give us a call and we'll schedule you right away! 

1. Onsite Incrimental Backup facilitates fast administrative restores
2. Offsite Backup protects your data outside your Organizational Active Directory and keeps it safe from Ransomware
3. DRaaS Replication provides a ready-to-power-on Replica VM of all your mission-critical systems, which keeps Recovery Time Objective (RTO) as low as possible

Our DRaaS Secure Cloud is designed from the ground up to provide the highest level of Business Continuity attainable anywhere, and with one important goal: to protect your data. From best-of-breed servers to fully redundant infrastructure, VMsources SecureCloud provides effective, verifiable Disaster Recovery solutions customized to suit our clients specific needs, including our famous Concierge Service at no extra charge.

Network Bubble

One of the most important aspects of VMsources' Disaster Recovery is our ability to exactly replicate your entire production network. Our disaster recovery plans allow you to run all of your protected servers and desktops as they are, without changing IP addresses relative to one and other.

• VMsources VPN appliance insures efficient and secure transmission of data over any internet connection.
• VMsources has disk-based solutions with FedEX – no bandwidth required!
• VMsources partners directly with Veeam so we can utilize their replication technology which features inline compression and deduplication so you get faster R.T.O. and reduced bandwidth consumption!

With all of the resources we already have in place, and all of the processes we have licensed and mastered; we could literally, seed the data today ^[2] and by tomorrow night you would have a White Glove Disaster Recovery plan in place!

Here’s how Disaster Recovery works:

1. We will create a Guaranteed TCO quote for your DRaaS Protection.
2. We create a secure IPsec VPN connection from your location to our datacenter.
3. VMsources Business Continuity specialists work with your Admins to Seed of all of your Organizations mission-critical systems to our Secure Cloud.
4. We establish scheduled replication with Veeam Backup and Replication.
5. We create a DR Plan, customized to your Organization and provide comprehensive training on how to run or test your DR plan.
6. We help you test your DR plan, and provide documentation of the successful test.
7. In the event of an actual disaster, your protected Servers/VMs/Computers will power up relative to one and other, just as they are set up to be – no IP reconfiguration on the servers themselves!
8. VMsources can help you update your public DNS, or we can help you automate the process of updating DNS in the event of a disaster.

Technical Advantages 

• 10 Gigabit Port on a dedicated fiber loop 
  • 100% optical connection to the Internet Backbone
  • 42 ms. Intra-USA latency (Guaranteed by Cogent SLA)
  • 99.9995% Uptime
• Unique, isolated and firewalled network(s)
  • Port forwarding configured & tested in advance

Geographic Advantages

• Nationwide Compute and DRaaS nodes.
• Tier 4 Datacenter
• 100% Facility SLA

Service Advantages

• VMsources will create the VPN (equivalent to MPLS) and guarantee latency/throughput
• We will assist with initial replication – “seeding”
• VMsources will monitor/maintain DR side of the house