Backup and Recovery

Colt’s Enterprise Backup and Recovery service provides you with comprehensive data protection for your Colt hosted data and applications. The service is designed to simplify the task of managing backups and ensure data can be restored in the event of data loss.

Colt replaces the complexity of systems, software, process and integration activities traditionally associated with the management of backup solutions with a simple service designed to automate and report on critical backup and restore activities.

Benefits

• Peace of mind: improve data availability and recovery to meet business and regulatory requirements
• Reduces cost and risk for data protection across all Colt Optimum IT services
• Reduce complexity: unified solution ensuring enterprise-class data protection across virtual and physical platforms
• Respond rapidly to change: easily scale backup capacity as your needs increase or decrease without capital investment, capacity planning or hardware refresh
• Faster backup and Recovery: change block backup that dramatically reduces backup windows along with high performance data recovery from disk
• Off-site data protection: data replication across data centres for full disaster recovery protection.

Replication

For enhanced data protection, our Virtual Replication Service supports In-Cloud Replication of Virtual Machines deployed in a Primary Colt data centre to a Recovery Colt data centre as a fully managed service.

The service enables Recovery Point Objectives measured in seconds with continuous replication and is specifically integrated into Colt’s Enterprise Infrastructure as a Service.

• Protect data 24/ 7: continuously replicate to a Colt Recovery Data Centre, enabling the recovery of production
• Minimise data loss: choose more urgent recovery time objectives and a smaller recovery point objective for your mission critical applications
• Determine robustness: test recovery, failover and failback of entire replicated infrastructure with a test–before-you-commit function
• Be selective: choose to replicate the most business critical data
• Cost-effective: reduce cost, complexity and risk for data protection 

¹ Footnote: Source: http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0660.html

Many organisations struggle to put a reliable backup and recovery plan in place, exposing themselves to increased risk in times of heightened economic uncertainty.

Colt’s Cloud Online Backup allows SMEs to protect critical business data, from simple files or email archives to complex data-stores.

There is no minimum data required for a backup, providing businesses with full flexibility. Because online backup is automated, customers save time associated with manual processes. They also minimise risks associated with hardware deterioration or theft which can occur with alternative solutions such as in-house file servers or tapes.

And there’s no CAPEX, saving users from hardware investments, license upgrades and the overall hassle of running backups in-house.

With Colt, it's simple: you benefit from high levels of security, performance and reliability, based on an affordable monthly subscription.

If you’re interested, we can also provide a free trial so you can see for yourself.

Benefits at a glance

Reliability – automated backup minimises risk

• Data is sent to secure data centres and stored on enterprise-quality disks, reducing risk of human error

Security – 128-bit encryption or higher

• Data is stored securely until a recovery is initiated. When backups are requested, the data is decrypted only when the user has the correct encryption key

Cost-effectiveness – reduce the total cost of ownership

• Pay-as-you go model, with no upfront investment or maintenance costs

Simplicity – flexible, self-maintaining solution

•  Frees you up to focus on business development

Performance – scale in seconds

• Choose a solution that works the same regardless of data size

Speed – recover files in seconds

• Data is stored both in the Cloud and locally, enabling quick, incremental data restoration

vCloud Backup

Gain peace of mind and protect business continuity with a robust backup solution. Colt’s unique self-service vCloud Backup feature allows complete control over the backup of business data:

• Decide which Virtual Machines in your vCloud environment are backed up by a customisable schedule
• Select the retention period of schedule backups
• Replicate backups to another Colt data centre for added protection
• Run ad hoc backups, and implement image level and file level restores of Virtual Machines

vCloud Replication

Create and manage your own disaster recovery solution. Colt’s vCloud Replication service allows on-premises replication to a Colt vCloud Virtual Data Centre, or between two Colt vCloud data centres. The service enables replication of production workloads into a Colt vCloud environment in a near-synchronous fashion.

Automate business continuity and disaster recovery

• Powered by Zerto Virtual Replication hypervisor based replication

Determine robustness

• Ability to test failovers, real failovers and failbacks

Be selective

• Choose to replicate the most business critical data

Simplify deployment

• Software automated installation

Replicate any storage

• Hardware agnostic solution compatible with all current storage systems