Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Services

INX Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service utilizes the 99.999% infrastructure of Herakles Data Center, providing clients with a hardened, hosted infrastructure to ensure the maximum performance and availability.

Research performed by organizations such as Meta Group shows that most businesses suffering a disaster, such as a fire or flood, are out of business within two years. The tight coupling of Wintel-based server hardware with the operating system makes recovery challenging for the following reasons:

• Driver related consistency issues prevent easy portability of a failed server to other hardware.
• Differences between servers require that the OS and applications be restored from the original installation media.
• A competent IT person can probably only build a couple of servers concurrently, which means a disaster makes quick recovery unlikely.
• In order to somewhat contain costs, most organizations select only a small subset of mission-critical servers for recovery. But interdependencies between applications often prevent employees from being able to work effectively, if at all, on only the designated mission-critical servers.
• Most organizations utilize backup tapes to recover data at their failover sites. A disaster can mean loss of the most current data; and an unreadable or out-dated tape catalogue can delay the data restoration process.

"Ninety-six percent of companies that lose access to their data centers for 10 days or longer are out of business within a year!”

Virtualize Disaster Recovery!

INX’s Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service® resolves these concerns, enables near real-time failover to our data center in the event of a disaster with access to near real-time data, and does it all for less money than you pay to operate a physical data center today. Because we virtualize your servers and clients, we even enable continued computer operations in the event of a prolonged pandemic disaster.

How Does it Work?

We deploy the agent-less VMware CapacityPlanner™ tool in order to gather server metrics regarding CPU utilization, memory and I/O over a period of 30 days. From this data, we are able to accurately catalog the performance of the servers and thereby develop a strategic plan to virtualize your production data center.

If you do not already utilize a SAN, we will suggest an appropriate solution that will house all of your data and virtual machines. The money saved from consolidating servers typically easily covers the cost of the SAN. We then continuously replicate your data and virtual machines to our SANs at Herakles Data in Sacramento.

In the event of loss of access to your data center servers or SAN for any reason, you can failover to our Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service® at Herakles. Your users will then be able to securely access their applications and data through the Internet using a standard browser at home, another office, or other authorized locations. When your data center is available again, the updated data is replicated back and the access restored.

What are the Elements of INX’s Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service®?

INX’s Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service (VRS) includes a comprehensive virtual infrastructure based disaster recovery plan. The Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Plan looks at all critical information processing area of the company, including but not limited to the following:

• LANs, WANs, and servers
• Telecommunications and data communications links
• Workstations and workspaces
• Applications, software, and data
• Data backup solutions including disk and compression
• Recovery methods

The virtual infrastructure recovery plan allows us to tailor the VRS for your environment including factors such as quarterly testing parameters, user support, failover process and future scalability.

Why INX?

INX has extensive experience in broader based disaster recovery / business continuity including working with very large financial and other organizations. Our pioneering efforts in virtualizing disaster recovery have been recognized in the form of speaking engagements around the globe including Continuity Insights Management Conference, VMworld and ThinPower. We have written about different aspects of disaster recovery in multiple books and articles, and have helped virtualize companies of all sizes.

INX partners with Northern California’s premier 92,000 square foot data center, Herakles Data. Herakles Data is located in seismically neutral Sacramento, California and offers a world class designed and engineered N+1 (minimum) co-location facility. With the finest in physical and electronic security, uninterruptible power, totally redundant, carrier neutral fiber networks, state of the art environmental and fire detection/suppression systems, and SAS 70 Certified; Herakles Data is a Tier 4, Class A rated (both the highest accredited levels) 99.999% mission-critical, co-lo data center with 24 x 7 staffing and client access

Cost

Costs for the Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Service® depend upon the specific environment, but are exceptionally affordable even without considering the vast savings from virtualizing the production environment. Costs for the Virtual Infrastructure Recovery Plan depend upon the size and complexity of the operation and the services desired.

For further information, call (707) 745-8585 or email sales@INXI.com.