EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Enterprise Cloud Backup
of Cloud-Based
As enterprises embrace new cloud-centric computing models such
as Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),
more and more of your corporate data resides in the cloud instead
of the secure confines of your data center.
Gartner predicts that more than 50%
of enterprises will have some form of
SaaS-based application strategy by 2015.
Most enterprises are already spending a lot of time investing in processes, methodologies and technologies for protecting data and applications within your
organization, but have given little thought to developing strategies to backup the data that resides in cloud-based platforms. Even though this data is outside your control, you are still held responsible for safeguarding it, from both a compliance and business operations perspective. If the data in these platforms is lost or damaged, you are risking your competitive advantage, intellectual property and reputation, and even worse, putting your company at risk for regulatory action or costly litigation.
Imagine if your data residing within a cloud-based application such as Salesforce.com was inaccessible for an entire day – would this cripple your business? What if through user error you lost critical customer data residing in your cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system and were not able to recover it because you
If you are running your business data or applications in a PaaS or SaaS platform, and would like to ensure that your data is always available when you need it, Asigra can help.
Introduction
Organizations are increasingly embracing new cloud-based computing models because they provide greater flexibility, cost effectiveness and faster time to market, but this means critical business data and applications now reside in cloud-based SaaS and PaaS platforms. This means your corporate data is no longer within the secure confines of the corporate data center and within your control.
Businesses don’t think about protecting their data and applications that run in these clouds the same way as they protect the data housed in their own data center, a lapse that is putting mission-critical business information at risk. Most companies assume the SaaS or PaaS platform provider will ensure the availability of their data and applications at all times, even though it’s ultimately their own responsibility to protect all corporate data.
Remember: the responsibility of any data loss residing in these platforms will be born by you and your business. With the responsibility of protecting your customers’ data solely on your shoulders, shouldn’t you be doing more to take charge of protecting your data residing in SaaS and PaaS platforms?
Why businesses cannot rely on cloud
platform providers for backup
PaaS and SaaS platform providers do perform their own data backups. Most do so at regular intervals. Some perform a weekly backup to tape, while others run a daily backup job. However, as one of their customers, you do not control of either the frequency or granularity of the data protection that is performed. You also do not have any
input as to the number of generations of information they backup, the retention rules, or the ability to schedule the backup at various intervals.
Most platform providers will explicitly advise you to perform your own data backups and do not take on the obligation for the backup or restore of organizational data. This information is often buried within the fine print of your contract with the service provider, which may not guarantee the ability for their customers to recover data in the event of a loss. If they do offer this service, they may charge an additional fee to restore the data to a previous point-in-time copy. This information is often buried in the fine print of the contract; you may not even be aware it exists yet your acceptance of the agreement holds you responsible for protecting that data.
To address these concerns, you might already be performing weekly or biweekly backups of your mission-critical data residing in these platforms by exporting the data into easily downloadable file formats. However, this data is usually stored in unsecure and unencrypted files on local machines. You also face the challenge of maintaining various versions of the backups over time, and the restoration of the data from these ad-hoc backups is usually time-consuming and difficult.
According to Gartner – “Temporary loss of data,
or a data breach that occurs within the cloud,
can potentially expose the enterprise to serious
legal and regulatory liability. The enterprise, not
the cloud provider, is ultimately accountable,
The Asigra Solution
Asigra Cloud Backup™ allows you to backup data from SaaS and PaaS services and restore data back to those services simply and effectively in the same way you protect on-premise data.
We provide enterprises with a single solution to backup, recover and restore all of the data residing on your servers, virtual machines, desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones and in cloud-based platforms, allowing you to take control of all of your data backup activities and ensure your data is available to you at all times.
The Nine Benefits of Asigra Cloud Backup
Asigra Cloud Backup offers a number of benefits to enterprises looking to safeguard their corporate data residing in SaaS and PaaS platforms:
1. It protects data housed in these platforms the same way as it protects on-premise data.
2. You need not invest in training staff on new point solutions or methodologies to backup and restore information in PaaS and SaaS platforms.
3. It enables backup administrators to easily configure, manage and schedule all backup activities from a single, intuitive interface.
4. It manages the various generations of data that is backed up so administrators no longer have to maintain the various versions of backup files downloaded from PaaS and SaaS platforms manually.
5. Data is stored in deduplicated, compressed and encrypted formats and cannot be accessed or distributed by unauthorized users.
6. Asigra’s encryption module is certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to be compliant with the FIPS 140-2 standards.
7. You can set and achieve recovery time and recovery point objectives for data in PaaS and SaaS platforms just as you would for any other data in your organization with a simple and fast restore process.
8. This is no need to install special agents for backing up each and every PaaS or SaaS platform, enterprise software solution, or virtual machine platform.
9. There are no additional licensing fees for backing up the information in PaaS and SaaS platforms.
Complimentary Cloud-to-Cloud Data Protection
If you have data residing in PaaS or SaaS clouds and do not have a cloud
backup solution call us today at 416-736-8111 or for more information on
Asigra Cloud Backup visit www.asigra.com/product.
About Asigra Cloud Backup
Award-winning Asigra Cloud Backup is an agentless hardware and software platform agnostic
cloud backup, recovery and restore software solution that supports servers, virtual machines,
desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, cloud-based applications, enterprise applications and
databases enabling organizations to resume business operations quickly while reducing costs
and achieving peace of mind.
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