Cloud DR (DRaaS)

Overview


Cloud usage is rapidly increasing and IT professionals struggle with how to efficiently migrate and manage data between environments. In addition, continued operational efficiency and budget constraints make meeting recovery objectives in an increasingly distributed world harder than ever.

Livewire’s DRaaS offering is prepared to address the next generation of operational challenges head-on with a comprehensive set of enterprise grade data protection capabilities. Powerful, capable and easy to use, it reduces operational overhead with the flexibility that fits your business and market-leading reliability that you can count on. We deliver powerful Availability across all cloud, virtual and physical workloads with a simple, flexible and reliable solution. Protect your data no matter the location or workload type.

With flexibility to choose between leading backup and replication technologies, namely: Veeam, Zerto, Carbonite, Axcient, Vembu, Vmware SRM, Acronis and Nakivo we have solution for every backup and DR use case. All of these technology integrations are fully tested, validated and available either as an independent service or complete end to end integration with your dedicated cloud cluster / shared capacity in our environment.

shadow

FAQ

1) How does an HCI solution make IT teams more efficient?

Eliminating traditional IT silos and managing everything from a single tool means lower OPEX and CAPEX for your IT infrastructure. And with HCI, you don’t have to sacrifice security, flexibility or scalability. But some solutions make capitalizing on HCI efficiency easier than others. Learn why VMware has the most HCI customers in production worldwide in this infographic.

2) Can an HCI solution efficiently and cost-effectively grow when, where and how I need it?

Data center scaling and evolving can be a costly, complicated process. Luckily, a key benefit of HCI is its ability to scale and change as needed. VMware HCI in particular is designed for simplicity and scalability for rapidly changing business needs. Only VMware has the complete set of offerings for a fully software-defined data center in production today.

3) What is the difference between hyperconverged and converged infrastructure?

Hyperconverged and converged IT infrastructures both integrate the four components of a data center: storage, compute, networking and management. While hyperconverged systems accomplish this through software, making it hardware-agnostic, converged solutions rely on hardware. A converged infrastructure data center uses many of the same products as traditional IT, just with a simplified architecture and easier management.

4) When should I use hyperconverged infrastructure?

• Virtual desktop infrastructure: HCI streamlines and simplifies VDI, which has the potential for lots of IT complexity and storage needs. HCI combines everything that’s needed for VDI into one package, and provides just enough storage needed, remaining cost-efficient.

• Edge computing: HCI makes it easy to design and build small edge or branch environments without a lot of on-site IT staff, and to scale up quickly as needed.

• General workload consolidation and file storage: HCI makes sizing and migrating workloads simpler. These workloads can include infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, print servers), database servers, application servers and file servers.

• Testing and development: HCI gives developers a cost-effective testing environment that runs similarly to production but without a lot of investment needed.

• Enabling a hybrid cloud environment: HCI can reduce the time and cost involved with transitioning to a hybrid cloud and when moving virtual machines between on-premises servers and private or public clouds.

5) What applications do companies run on hyperconverged infrastructure?

Companies are using hyperconverged infrastructure to run most types of business-critical, or tier-one, applications thanks to its high availability. Other common workloads that run on hyperconverged systems include database software like Oracle, virtual desktop infrastructure, collaboration applications, analytics, remote management, and testing environments.