Disaster Recovery as a Service

What happens to your business when mission-critical systems are unavailable due to infrastructure failure, security breach, human error, or natural disasters?

The loss of data can cause serious business and financial complications. It’s estimated 90% of businesses will fail without a disaster recovery plan in place. Surprisingly, 75% of small businesses don’t have one.

Backing up and securing your data and systems with disaster recovery (DR) and having the capability to maintain business as usual in the face of a disaster is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity. Thrive’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers a solution to ensure your data is protected and your business can quickly recover from any potential disruptions.

In fact, you really can’t afford to not have a disaster recovery strategy. According to Gartner, the average cost of network downtime is around $5,600 per minute. That adds up to around $300,000 per hour. By partnering with Thrive, you can mitigate these risks and minimize financial losses.

Besides data and revenue loss, your business could lose customer trust and end up with a tarnished brand reputation.

As IT transitions from a necessary support system into an age of business enablement, having robust and tested DR capabilities are critical to allow for future scalability and reliability.

Thrive offers NextGen IT business continuity solutions that minimize data loss and provide fast, automated recovery of critical systems for protection against events that can devastate normal business operations.

From disaster recovery consulting and planning, to full restoration of mission-critical applications and services, Thrive’s Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) protects your critical business technology infrastructure, ensuring your organization exceeds the most challenging Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), including:

• Real-time replication of business-critical data
• Automated recovery of protected virtual servers upon declaration of a disaster
• Recovery of critical workloads to ThriveCloud, Microsoft Azure, or client systems
• Non-impacting simulated testing for recovery assurance

Here at Thrive, we constantly discuss these two terms in detail with our customers:

• Recovery Timeline Objective (RTO) – The time it takes systems to fully recover, rebuild, reload from any outage or event
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) – The amount of data loss that is acceptable to the business, typically expressed as the time between backup jobs or replication snapshots

At Thrive, we gather as much information about the business to create a custom continuity roadmap by assessing the various functional departments to gauge how data is stored and accessed.

If you’re like most businesses, you’ll have discovered a handful of on-premise systems, Cloud-based systems, and SaaS applications all with different backup platforms. From here, the Thrive technical team typically assists our clients to review the current backup systems to see what they’re capable of

At Thrive, we offer the capability to swiftly provision emergency hosting capacity, allowing the deployment of the latest backed-up system images in the event of a disaster.

Thrive’s Warm Site Recovery comprehensively supports a diverse range of platforms and operating systems. This includes physical systems, hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper-V, and essential platforms like IBM i (AS/400, iSeries), ensuring robust support across various critical environments.

With Hot Site Replication, we maintain virtualized replicas of your critical servers within our data centers. Your local systems are continuously monitored, and block-level changes are pushed to our remote data centers.

This ensures that systems are always available to meet your RPO and RTO requirements. If your production environment has an issue, the DRaaS site takes over and workloads continue to run normally. Thrive acts as a temporary center for production systems, until you are ready to initiate the automated failback process.