Increasingly, companies are recognizing the critical need to ensure business continuity best practices, and to do so economically. As a result, many are turning to Calm Response and its partners for their market-leading Cloud Recovery as a Service (RaaS) as their preferred solution. Rapidly deployed, RaaS can have businesses protected in a matter of hours.
All of our product offerings are built around one key focus
…to deliver Cloud Recovery services that keep your business running uninterrupted during a system failure – with no capital investment – ensuring continued access to not only applications but also current and archived data.
As a successful business ourselves, we understand the necessity of protecting and backing up confidential company and client data; quick restoration whenever important data is lost; the importance of business continuity alongside disaster recovery planning; and the overarching value of consistent and predictable costs. Ensure the availability and recoverability of email, database and other business applications, cost effectively and easily.
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Recovery as a Service (RaaS) Products
What’s the ROI on 100% uptime?
- OUTSOURCING – Comparing the cost of a build-it-yourself vs. an outsourced DR/BC environment, including the time and effort required to implement even an outsourced solution,
- OUTAGES – Calculating the potential cost of any downtime after an unplanned fail-over scenario involving not only productivity for the duration, but also the potential loss in credibility, investor attractiveness and reputation that a business would suffer as a result of being unavailable for any length of time,
Calm Response’s Geminare Powered Cloud-based BC/DR solution, Cloud Recovery, can be turned up in a matter of hours, as compared to common industry timelines of over 3 months to setup, and what is still today a failover / failback time of hours to days (if it’s at all possible), now takes about a minute, with no service interruption.
Our RaaS Product Line
Calm Response Partner, Geminare is a pioneer in delivering Recovery as a Service solutions to the Small and Medium Enterprise sector. Our game-changing product portfolio includes Cloud technologies such as Failback Cloud Recovery and Server Replication as well as Cloud Storage Assurance.
All of our product offerings are built around one key focus
…to deliver Cloud Recovery services that keep your business running uninterrupted during a system failure – with no capital investment – ensuring continued access to not only applications but also current and archived data.
Organizations are well aware of the impact that downtime can have on their business, yet they still focus on antiquated and incomplete solutions when protecting mission-critical environments. Tapes, imaging and onsite appliances serve a need within the SME market, but for most mid-market customers, any outage resulting even in a single user’s data being inaccessible, is an unacceptable level of downtime. The chart below helps to illustrate the typical downtime associated with different solutions in the market today:
Calm Response and Geminare RaaS product line-up focuses on delivering innovative, leading edge failover and failback server replication and cloud storage solutions that put you at the top of the chart.
How it works: Failover and Failback
Cloud Recovery protects your business by fully replicating your critical servers to a secure hosted cloud environment. All operating systems, supported applications and end-user data are made available in a secure and 24/7 accessible cloud-hosted environment. Your servers and data are kept current through real-time bandwidth-efficient continuous replication.
In the event of a complete production site loss, your employees can continue to access their applications securely through the Internet from any remote location.
Failover
In the case of a server failure, downtime or a complete customer site loss, the Cloud Recovery service automatically redirects data and users to the cloud-hosted Replica Servers, which operate in Failover Mode for the duration of the downtime event. Customers can securely access the cloud-hosted Replica Servers from any remote location via the Internet, or continue to access it locally should their site continue to be available.
Failback
After a planned or unplanned outage, failing a server back from the Cloud Recovery environment to your restored production servers, a process called Failback, is fast and transparent to your end users, who continue working without any interruption even if they are working remotely or onsite. The Failback process synchronizes the changed data, while users continue to access their applications and data files, and then seamlessly redirects user traffic back to the production environment.
Business continues as usual…
With Cloud Recovery… downtime is a thing of the past.
Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 (CSA 2.0)
Find the needle in your digital haystack
Searching for, and quickly retrieving archived data can be a difficult, if not impossible task. And even if you do manage to find what you’re looking for, how can you be assured that it is an exact, un-altered copy of the original? These issues are becoming increasingly important as electronic storage, archiving and data retrieval needs expand.
Is your company prepared to present valid historic eDiscovery material should you be involved in a litigation, or are you going to spend months searching for all the necessary archived material while your business grinds to a halt? We can help you find your specific data in a matter of seconds AND provide proof of authenticity. What could be easier?
The Next-Generation Cloud Storage,
Indexing and Archiving Engine
Calm Response’s Geminare powered Cloud Storage Assurance is the industry’s first backup and archiving solution that affords its users the ability to store their data on virtually any public or private cloud storage platform. CSA 2.0 delivers fast and easy access to stored data, and provides companies with a unique audit trail for each individual file, confirming complete document assurance and data integrity. This low-cost, cloud-based, secure data backup and recovery solution provides total data protection, eliminating the risks and restrictions often associated with vendor lock-in.
View your archived data
Run on Public or Private Cloud Platforms
CSA 2.0 is available as a stand-alone managed service, or as an add-on to Geminare’s Cloud Recovery service, and can run on private or public cloud platforms.
While also appealing to Enterprise accounts, Geminare CSA 2.0 is ideal for customers in the Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) market who are seeking auditable data archiving capabilities without having to invest in costly new infrastructure, staff or software. Clients can automatically archive selected directories, files and emails into any major cloud storage platform for as long as they choose. Data can easily be found at any time using intelligent search functions embedded in Geminare’s secure portal, including highly advanced nested searches, tag clouds and predictive searching.
Integrated search and auditing tools are ideal for addressing the typically arduous and time-consuming document management tasks of retrieving data and proving its authenticity, such as occurs during eDiscovery or proof of adherence to industry or government regulations. CSA 2.0 easily meets the strictest compliance standards while protecting customer data from accidental deletions, modifications or corruption.
Total data protection is an essential component of a proactive data & document management strategy.
Benefits & Business Drivers
Cloud Platform Accessibility & Flexibility: CSA 2.0 runs on today’s major cloud storage infrastructures enabling out-of-the-box integration with trusted vendors, allowing you to control where your data resides. CSA 2.0’s platform versatility means that you have the option of using private or internal clouds, and the ability to move archived data from one cloud to another seamlessly.
Data Integrity and Authentication: CSA 2.0 offers integrity assurance of stored data by applying a unique key identifier to each file, email record and access session, allowing you to authenticate your data within any public or private storage cloud. Audit logs track downloads from the archived storage environment and provide a unique CSA 2.0 receipt. Mismatched keys easily identify altered historical files within the cloud.
Peace of Mind With Automated Archiving with Version Control: You can choose to have your email and file server data archived automatically. Once the server and directories are identified, no other ongoing management is required. Version control is included and captured automatically allowing you to retrieve previous copies of files and emails.
Specialized Search Functions: Productivity increases when information is easier to find. With CSA 2.0’s user-level controls, high-speed nested searches and dynamic tag clouds, your users can have a customized search engine interface specific to their data retrieval needs. This robust and leading-edge technology, incorporated into an extremely fast and dynamic search engine, means businesses spend substantially less time searching for data.
Integration and Expandability: CSA 2.0 provides a REST-based open API architecture that offers customers, partners and developers the ability to write custom query integrations directly into document management applications such as eDiscovery and compliance auditing tools.
Features
- Flexible Cloud Platform Support
- Complete Data Protection, Data Integrity and Authentication Assurance with Unique Key Identifiers
- Download Audit Trail with Unique Session ID and CSA 2.0 Receipt
- Automated Archiving
- High-speed Intelligent Search Functionality with Dynamic Tag Clouds, Predictive Searching and Nested Search Capabilities
- REST-based Open API Architecture for integration with external applications
- No Capital Investment Required
- Rapid Deployment in Hours
- Support for most popular file formats
- Built-in Security Controls for Data Retrieval