How it works
Cloud computing is defined as on-demand, elastic computing where IT or applications can be delivered as a service without respect to the underlying infrastructure. The challenge is to provide an evolutionary path for all current applications running inside the enterprise data center to run concurrently with hosted applications delivered by an external service provider.
Hexistor, an early pioneer in integrating advanced backup technology with the Internet offers Rapid Recovery a hybrid cloud backup/recovery solution. Rapid Recovery couples internal cloud on-premise image back up technology with external cloud off-premise disaster recovery service with the capability to move —or "federate"—data from on-premise (or internal) to off-premise (or external) cloud.
The ability to federate between external and internal resources provides customers with the cost and operational efficiencies of cloud, while maintaining the important controls over where their data resides while preserving investment of existing applications and infrastructure.
Rapid Recovery’s hybrid cloud architecture creates an image backup of all critical active data and stores it on local disk before replicating them to the public cloud. This provides recovery in the event of a failed system. Recovering a single file through the public cloud is not a problem, recovery and entire server can be impossible, having an image backup stored on local disk allow systems are up and running within minute of data loss.
The local image only needs to be large enough to handle the most frequent backups, which is what you would typically need in a full system recovery. Older data is often a much smaller subset of files and is usually the result of a specific inquiry. Time to recovery is less of an issue and the size of the data to be recovered is smaller, making the pull from the cloud more viable.
Hexistor’s Hybrid Cloud Data Protection is not only important because it resolves the potential bottleneck issues of the cloud but also lays the groundwork for using the cloud as a primary archive solution. Only critical active date is stored locally while single instance storage technology provides an efficient economical solution for long-term data archiving.
Hexistor’s Hybrid Cloud Data Protection model uses sophisticated data deduplication technology to eliminating non-essential and persistent data at the source. The backup and recovery offering provides a smart and affordable approach to backup transformation, helping customers to buy less, manage less, and maintain less. Rapid Recovery performs backup and restore of all leading physical and virtual operating systems, applications, and databases, using industry standard protocols and programming interfaces.
The global data deduplication technology eliminates the unnecessary transmission over the Public Cloud and store of redundant backup data. Deduplication slows the pace of data growth both in the core data centers and at the remote office. These techniques give users the equivalent of full backups in a smaller storage footprint because only new or changed data blocks are encrypted and then backed up and copied to hard disk.
Hexistor’s Hybrid Cloud Data Protection allows users to integrate their own private cloud with the public cloud for fast onsite and reliable offsite recovery. Rapid Recovery provides an easy migration of backup data from the internal data center to Hexistor’s public cloud service facility or vice-versa.
With Rapid Recovery you have the control, security and rapid restore of a private cloud on-premise backup system coupled a public cloud off-premise disaster recovery for protection against catastrophic business disruption and loss of your primary business site.
- For private cloud on-premise data protection all active data is saved on local disk for rapid recovery of mission critical applications at wire-speed with bare metal restore capability.
- For public cloud off-premise disaster recovery and archiving, daily, weekly and yearly data is archived on disk off-premise to meet regulatory data retention requirements, while providing on-demand online restoration.
With Rapid Recovery’s system restoration to any physical or virtual machine in minutes and delivery of an identical operational system anywhere, you have peace of mind knowing that not only your critical business data but also entire systems are protected to ensure continuous business operations
In a backup environment it's all about recovery. Public cloud, off-premise backup is an important component because it delivers disaster recovery and compliant archiving, but for fast recovery you must have the backup data stored locally. Hexistor offers the best aspects of a private cloud on-premise solution, plus the best aspect of a public cloud off-premise disaster recovery solution as a single integrated service.
In a 24/7, highly connected economy, customer operational expenses associated with data protection across an organization expectations for an always-on business environment and on-demand data availability are growing. Hexistor’s Hybrid Cloud Data Protection delivers fast, reliable online backups to help organizations protect and recover data to keep up with information availability needs.