Disaster recovery service solution brief

Whitepaper

Iron Mountain® Disaster Recovery Service is a comprehensive hybrid cloud solution to protect mission critical data and applications from disaster.

7 December 202112 mins
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Challenge

How do I ensure mission critical workloads are protected and available at all times? Whether it’s security threats like ransomware, a natural disaster or even human error, your business can’t afford to be down. With data growth and 24x7x365 always on IT systems, developing a comprehensive and proven disaster recovery strategy is crucial to ensuring your data is available when you need it.

How This Affects You

  • You need to ensure your disaster recovery strategy is tested and proven for the data that matters
  • You need minimise the cost and time of an outage by keeping mission critical data available and secure
  • You need to simplify your complex, resource intensive business continuity plan while data continues to grow

Industry Fact

3 out of 4 companies worldwide are in danger of failing to recover from a disaster or outage - Disaster Recovery Preparedness Benchmark: The State of Global Disaster Recovery


What If You Could:

  • Recover mission critical data and systems within hours of a disaster regardless of infrastructure?
  • Continue to operate production systems even as you recover from an outage?
  • Simplify your disaster recovery strategy with predictable, fixed pricing and unlimited storage?
  • Leverage the knowledge of an experienced team of business continuity specialists to plan, test and execute your disaster recovery process?

Modernise Your Disaster Recovery Plan

Iron Mountain Disaster Recovery Service enables you to leverage our industry-leading cloud-based disaster recovery technology to protect the data that matters, regardless of location or infrastructure. As a fully managed service, our experts can help you develop the right business continuity processes to ensure you meet your RPOs and RTOs and keep your business running in case of an unplanned event or wide spread disaster.

Optimum Protection

With flexible deployment options, you can optimize cost without sacrificing protection. Iron Cloud Disaster Recovery leverages a local appliance to backup both physical and virtual servers. When an incident occurs, you can run your data locally on the appliance or in the cloud while you resolve the issue and then restore to bare metal, diskless or cloud to keep all your essential data available, all supported by Iron Mountain’s staff of of disaster recovery experts.

The fully managed services ensures you’re up and running as quickly as possible and that your plan is always tested and ready.

You can move from CAPEX to an OPEX cost structure having a fixed price model, regardless of how much data you’re protecting, how many servers and how long you’re storing it. As your business grows, your disaster recovery plan will scale with it. If disaster strikes, you’ll know the data that matters will be available and secure.

Iron Mountain Disaster Recovery Services Technology Features

Image Level Backup enables servers to be restored in seconds not hours

Instant Virtualisation boots a server from backup in seconds either on-premise or in the cloud.

Screenshot Verification enhances reliability with a daily test restore for every server to verify it can be restored in a disaster and augmented with a screenshot of the logon prompt for additional visual authentication that your DR strategy is successful

Ransomware Detection detects the symptoms of a ransomware attack with industry-first security functionality and leverage point-in-time recovery to rollback as if the attack never happened

Backup Insights allows administrators to identify file or application changes between any two backup points. You can quickly find that deleted folder or determine which files a virus affected and restore only what you need.

Built-in Hypervisor deploys an all-in-one solution with a local appliance allows you to run production systems locally or in the cloud during a disaster without any additional hardware and continue backing up throughout

End-to-End Encryption protects your data with AES 256 encryption both in transit and in the cloud for added peace of mind

Infinite cloud retention keeps data on the cloud as long as you need for long term archiving or meeting regulatory requirements

Enhanced Support accesses our white glove support team any time you need


Why Iron Mountain?

  • 89 million pieces of media stored
  • 45,730 DR tests supported
  • 15+ years of delivering cloud
  • Over 220,000 customers worldwide
  • More than 68 Exabytes of data stored on tape and cloud