A growing number of IT managers are using cloud computing principles to address their data protection challenges. The key advantage of a cloud computing approach to backup and recovery is the ability to use wires full of data—instead of trucks full of tape—to send backups to a remote site for compliance and disaster recovery. Cloud backup services can be outsourced as a service running over the Internet (public cloud) or implemented within an organizations existing corporate network (private cloud). A hybrid cloud approach offers the best of both worlds: some of the tasks can be outsourced to run over a public cloud and others deployed within a corporate network on a private cloud.
With its Online Backup Service Arcplace already offers public cloud backup services to companies across Switzerland. With the Arcplace Hybrid Cloud Backup Service, clients can select to deploy the Arcplace Online Backup Solution in-house and maintain a copy of their backups in highly secure datacenters in Zurich or Geneva.
The main advantages of the Hybrid Cloud Backup Service are:
- State-of-the-art backup technology
- Backup to disk
- Extensive data de-duplication and compression
- Ideal for virtualized environments
- No backup agents required
- Compatible with all systems (servers, desktops and laptops)
- Strong encryption (during transport and at rest)
- Disaster Recovery copies stored in highly secure data centres
- Full control over all backup and restore activities
- Highly scalable, from 10GB up to 100TB or more
- No more tapes required
- Pay as you grow model
