Understanding Backup & Disaster Recovery for your business’ growth.

What is Data Recovery?

Data recovery is the process of restoring corrupted, lost, accidentally deleted, or otherwise inaccessible data to its server, computer, mobile device, or storage device.

Data is restored from a backup copy that is stored in another location either on prem or in the cloud. 

There are many that may still confuse restoring and recovery. Restoring is the process of completely replacing a system or data from a copy of backup while recovery is salvaging multiple files or data from backup.

What does Backup and Disaster Recovery mean to Businesses?

A number of business owners have underestimated the importance of backups and when businesses are caught up in disasters that cause data loss, business continuity becomes a challenge.

A lot of companies still rely on traditional backup (i.e. Backing up to on prem servers) where common challenges including network problems, software bugs, hardware failures are faced.  As an organisation and as the head of IT, the last thing you want is for these unfortunate events to happen and to make you lose precious data.

Every business must be able to bounce back from disaster in real time.To do this they need to have an efficient backup and disaster recovery plan.

Benefits of disaster recovery in the Cloud vs on-prem

Many companies have backup data, but the question is how and where they do that. There are different strategies for backup, data recovery and data loss prevention that enterprises can adopt in their infrastructure strategy. For example Cloud data or On-premises can be backed up on-premises, in the Cloud or one step further in terms of security: in a Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR).

Cloud Disaster Recovery is a secure backup strategy that stores and maintains copies of data in a Cloud computing environment. 

When you use the Cloud as a backup target instead of an on-prem data center, you can drastically reduce costs via the low-cost structure of Cloud storage. It allows you to minimise the need for expensive on-prem storage devices or a second data center, which will save your company a lot of money. 

Why you need a backup solution for any Cloud Platform

Using a Cloud Platform as a backup storage target for example gives organisations a number of advantages over more traditional solutions. A few include, lower costs as well as;greater availability and higher reliability are only just a couple to mention  of modern data backup solutions in the Cloud. A Cloud Platform offers robust, flexible and cost-effective Data Recovery solutions.

If you’re already working with Google Cloud Platform, we can certainly recommend HYCU: the first native, fully managed backup as a service developed specifically for Google Cloud Platform that has integrated invoicing and security. HYCU setup and implementation is straightforward with zero deployment and maintenance.

HYCU is integrated within the GCP console, accessible from the GCP Marketplace and 100% GCP Cloud Native app. It allows you to scale endlessly with ease, just like you’re used to with Google Cloud. 

HYCU uses snapshots not just for backups, but also for restores. i.e. HYCU keeps 24-72 hours’ worth of snapshots locally and thus when a recovery is required, there is no separate “instant restore” infrastructure to manage outside the Cloud environment. HYCU automatically leverages the snapshots and recovers the data, with the application context, right in the system. No data migration required post the recovery!

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