With the increasing influence of IT services on enterprise operation and maintenance, enterprise IT investment is also increasing, and with the gradual penetration of cloud computing, enterprises are gradually migrating local data to the cloud to save the cost of local servers. Deployment and operation and maintenance costs. Small and medium-sized enterprises that have emerged like mushrooms after the rain cannot bear the high cost of building local servers, and most of them choose to establish their business foundation on the cloud from the very beginning.
Backup and disaster recovery problems faced by small and medium-sized enterprises: Difficulty in transferring data across heterogeneous platforms
Many small and medium-sized enterprises believe that putting data in the cloud does not require disaster recovery. They often think that cloud businesses will provide cloud backup or disaster recovery services by default to help customers protect data security on the cloud. In fact, although large cloud vendors will provide cloud backup and disaster recovery services, this also requires customers to purchase and deploy additionally.
Due to the development of enterprises and business, the amount of business data is increasing day by day. Due to the development of business, small and medium-sized enterprises have to update their business infrastructure according to the times. As a result, the infrastructure of small and medium-sized enterprises in different periods is significantly different, and the data flow across heterogeneous platforms is seriously hindered. Even the cloud backup and disaster recovery services provided by cloud providers are difficult to solve the problem of backup and disaster recovery under non-proprietary platforms.
If there was a meandering Yellow River between small and medium-sized enterprises and backup and disaster recovery, now there is a vast and boundless sea between small and medium-sized enterprises and backup and disaster recovery.
Backup and disaster recovery problems faced by small and medium-sized enterprises: Cloud computing professionals are scarce
According to IDC's "Global Small and Medium Enterprise Survey", only 43.6% of small enterprises (that is, with less than 100 employees) have a full-time IT staff. While those enterprises with sufficient IT teams still focus on competitive projects, they also need to train/retrain these employees on new cloud computing technologies and cultivate general IT talents.
The rapid development of cloud computing complicates the cloud deployment of enterprises. The initial deployment architecture is far from the recent deployment architecture. At the same time, 41.1% of SMEs are struggling with their daily work, making it difficult to keep up with the development of cloud computing technology. This also makes it difficult for SMEs to independently complete cloud disaster recovery deployment.
Although the development speed of my country's cloud computing is second to none in the world, in fact, there are still a small number of people in the IT circle who really master cloud computing technology. Most IT talents only have a conceptual understanding of cloud computing, which also increases the obstacles and costs for SMEs in IT operation and maintenance.
In this way, cooperating with cloud disaster recovery technology partners is the most suitable solution for small and medium-sized enterprises.
The third problem of backup disaster recovery faced by small and medium-sized enterprises: Weak awareness and insufficient information
Even though ransomware incidents occur frequently every year, as long as they don't happen to them, small and medium-sized enterprises often think that their business size is not enough to become the target of hackers. They ignore that the development of technology has made hackers' attack methods more advanced. Today's hackers can already use technology to achieve automated, large-scale and indiscriminate cyber attacks.
Recent IDC research shows that while ransomware is one of the top security concerns for SMBs, only 9.8 percent of small businesses and 13.5 percent of midsize businesses plan to implement protection.
The backup disaster recovery of these small and medium-sized enterprises is very basic, rough and not optimistic. This is because the backup and disaster recovery market is generally concentrated in large enterprises such as the financial industry. Leading manufacturers mainly provide solutions based on the backup and disaster recovery needs of large enterprises, and cannot prescribe the right medicine to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Cloud disaster recovery solution for small and medium-sized enterprises
When planning a disaster recovery plan, small and medium-sized enterprises need to start from their own situation, first sort out what they need, and then find a solution that suits them according to their needs. Considering that most of the data of small and medium-sized enterprises are on the cloud from the beginning of their establishment, and according to the "Special Action Plan for Digital Empowerment of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises" pointed out by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, to guide digital service providers to build cloud service platforms for the digital transformation needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises must It will be the first batch of enterprises to migrate or recover all data to the cloud. Therefore, cloud disaster recovery solutions are the right direction for small and medium-sized enterprises.
1. Focus on cloud native, cross-architecture data flow
Based on the fact that the business data of small and medium-sized enterprises are generally based on the cloud, in order to facilitate the free flow of data between heterogeneous architecture platforms such as cloud and cloud, cloud and IDC, cloud and hyper-convergence, cloud-native business-level disaster recovery tools can be selected HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery.
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery uses object storage as the target storage medium, making data transfer between heterogeneous platforms more flexible, fully supporting 50+ heterogeneous platforms, covering 95%+ scenarios in the current market, and realizing true cross-architecture Data transfer is Cloud Shuttle, which solves the problem of "data islands" formed in the development of enterprises for small and medium-sized enterprises.
2. Highly automated and cost-saving
The traditional cloud disaster recovery solution requires 1:1 pre-configuration of cloud resources, which consumes a lot of manpower, money and time. In addition, traditional cloud disaster recovery solutions that rely heavily on manual work require IT operation and maintenance personnel to have rich technical knowledge related to cloud computing. This is obviously not suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises.
No.1 Saving manpower
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery deeply connects with 20+ cloud platform API interfaces, and supports highly automated heterogeneous platform disaster recovery solutions. The operation interface is designed according to the business flow guide, simplifying the complexity, and one operation and maintenance IT can complete the deployment.
No.2 Save money
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery uses data slice transmission technology to store data slices of the entire machine to object storage, and only combine them into block data during recovery. This not only increases the vitality of data transfer across heterogeneous platforms, but also fully supports 50+ heterogeneous platforms; it also saves a lot of disaster recovery costs through object storage (disaster recovery storage costs are only 1.3 yuan/GB/year).
No.3 Reduce RTO
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery adopts Boot in Cloud™ technology, which drives intelligent adaptation without pre-starting, one-click pulls up the business system to an available state, and directly restores to the login page of the operating system, achieving minute-level RPO, allowing the business to recover quickly, which fits Disaster recovery requirements for SMEs.
3. Snapshots can be backtracked arbitrarily, and disaster recovery data can be reused
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery can automatically generate a snapshot at a specified time point according to the setting, and the number of snapshots can be set arbitrarily. You can select a snapshot at a certain point in time for quick recovery, restore the business system data and status at the corresponding time, target and resolve logic errors that occur in the business system, and provide process backtracking for business testing and security incidents.
Enterprises can use HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery to launch the disaster recovery system on the cloud with one click, and use the simulation environment for data analysis, business training, upgrade testing, etc., and the cost performance of disaster recovery on the cloud is improved.
HyperBDR® cloud disaster recovery + cloud basic resources is an HP cloud disaster recovery solution for small and medium-sized enterprises. The automated cloud disaster recovery process makes cloud backup disaster recovery affordable for small and medium-sized enterprises.