iland Secure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) with Zerto

IT resilience, simplified. iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto is fully-integrated into the iland Secure Cloud Console, making disaster recovery as easy as clicking a button.

Continuous availability to keep your applications running 24x7.

Go beyond protecting your business. Make it resilient. Built on iland’s Secure Cloud platform with direct integration into Zerto’s industry-leading replication software, iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto offers customized runbook functionality, optimized RPOs and near-zero RTOs, and automated recovery. With iland and Zerto, you have complete control of your disaster recovery plan so it is ready when you need it most.

Accelerated Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

Traditionally, disaster recovery means recovering data before accessing systems. With iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto, a journal keeps a historical record of changes made to VMs. During failover, every end user request is analyzed to determine if the response should be returned directly from the virtual machine or from the journal, whichever is more current. This process continues until the failover is complete.

Failover network and integration capabilities allow end users to seamlessly access data during and after a failover event.

Disaster Recovery designed for your unique business.

Every business is different. iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto combines industry-leading technology with individual design to meet your specific application and business recovery requirements. iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto features:

Recovery Assurance

Create DR runbooks within the iland Secure Cloud Console to configure the orchestration of recovery groups and simplify the development, management and execution of your DR plan:

Create multiple DR plans. Use the iland Secure Cloud Console to build DR plans for any scenario to enable and orchestrate application specific recovery.
Automate the entire failover and failback process. Leverage iland’s failover wizard to automate the failover and failback process. Automation reduces the errors of manual failback including data loss and data integrity. Alerts and reporting about the failover are available in the iland Secure Cloud Console.
Test anytime. The iland Secure Cloud Console enables you to test your disaster recovery yourself to ensure your plan works. Failover and back without service disruption – and without fitting an arbitrary schedule. Run a full suite of DR testing by selecting a runbook and then invoking the automated test failover. Verify the success of your runbook before there is a disaster

Virtual Protection Groups

Protect virtual machines (VMs) by group and/or tier to ensure consistent recovery points (RPOs) across all grouped machines.

Define your own RPOs for your VMs. You can define the RPO for individual VMs, or for group VMs, to achieve RPOs of seconds with little impact on performance or resource usage of the primary system.
Perform partial failovers. You can group VMs supporting multi-tier applications. Partial failovers can help you reduce costs and simplify failback.
Perform granular restores. A checkpoint journal at the recovery site can store RPO points from between 1 – 720 hours, enabling you to restore to points prior to the disaster.
VSS awareness. For certain applications such as SQL and Exchange.

Performance, efficiency, and individual design.

iland Secure DRaaS utilizes efficient technologies to ensure failover and failback meet your business and application-specific requirements.

Fastest replication. Integrated network compression enables both closer Recovery Points and reduced WAN bandwidth requirements.
Existing network compatibility. iland Secure DRaaS can be configured with recovery networks that match your internal private network range(s), yielding a more aggressive RTO with no reconfiguration of VMs.
DNS failover. Disaster recovery management is simplified with the integration of DNS management into the cloud console. DNS management can be performed from the same location in which you manage cloud resources and disaster recovery. Easily manage your public IP blocks, DNS zones, records, and make updates to all your DNS records in the event of a failover through an easy-to-use search and edit tool within the console.
Storage options. iland supports replication of VMware virtual machines and is storage-agnostic with two tiers of encrypted storage to ensure all key workloads are protected.
SSAE 16/ISO 27001 certified Tier III data centers around the globe. In addition to global data centers, iland also maintains connections to more than 500 IP providers to ensure your data is secure, fixed within your chosen country, and fails over rapidly.

End User Access

End user access is a critical piece of a successful DR solution. To meet this need, iland has built-in options for:

We also support tailored options to meet individual application and security requirements.

Simplified Pricing

iland offers all-inclusive pricing for our DRaaS with Zerto. Pricing includes:

Zerto license
The cost of your reserved storage, in any of our 2 tiers of storage with bandwidth included.

All iland Secure DRaaS solutions include:

Industry-leading technology and experience.
4-time, consecutive “Leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS).

Unified cloud management.
Secure Cloud Console is our award-winning, unified management platform. The console provides management, control, and visibility across all iland services including public and private clouds, data protection, and disaster recovery.

Management up to the hypervisor.
As you move from on-premises environments to the cloud, using proven, familiar technologies, individual design, as well as leveraging a vendor to manage these technologies up to the hypervisor, is key to success.

Dedicated compliance team.
To help make the transition to cloud easier from a compliance standpoint, and to help tackle your geographic and/or industry-specific concerns, iland maintains an in-house compliance team that is ready to support you.

Network support services
land offers Network Support services and multi-cloud connectivity to give you the flexibility to maintain and preserve your existing network policies and investments to ensure your workloads can communicate.

Seamless onboarding and deployment.
To help you simplify your move to the cloud, iland takes a comprehensive approach to migrating data by including a dedicated project manager and cloud services engineers to ensure that data is migrated safely and securely to the iland Cloud Platform.

Flexible and individual design.
iland Secure DRaaS enables you to replicate all your IT workloads and applications from public or private clouds, and for both virtual and physical environments, to our proven, VMware-based cloud platform.

VMware-based technology.
iland Secure DRaaS, like all iland services, is built on proven technology from VMware. With VMware, iland enables you to quickly failover and failback during and after the disaster event without having to convert your applications to a new operating format.

Multi-layered security.
iland Secure DRaaS includes managed, purpose-selected security across your recovery environment. iland security is directly integrated into the iland Secure Cloud Console to provide for ease of use, transparency, and control.

Optional backup.
To ensure your DRaaS solution is ready for production when necessary, iland Secure DRaaS includes built-in data protection services managed by the iland Secure Cloud Console.

Strategy and design.
iland provides cloud planning and design services leveraging iland Catalyst, our environment assessment tool, used to model and ensure application performance requirements are met prior to DRaaS deployment.

Included premium customer support.
Our 24/7/365 support team is available by phone, email and ticketing system to address your questions. That begins with our seamless onboarding process through to your ongoing operations – for questions large and small.

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Testimonial

“iland makes it so easy to transition to the cloud. From contracts to technical help, our iland sales rep has been able to pull it all together with no added complications.We now have a scalable, cost-effective solution for our future growth and look forward to continuing our partnership with iland.”

–Alex Snell . Roderick’s Head of IT

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Use Cases

iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto:

Provides protection against unplanned downtime and catastrophic data loss from internal and external threats including cybercrime, hardware failure, and natural disasters.

Eliminates the need for a second data center for disaster recovery.

Reduces the complexity normally associated with recovering complex IT.

Increases IT resiliency through automation and orchestration via iland Runbooks, simplified testing capabilities, and options for fully-managed DRaaS (Autopilot Managed Recovery)

Available in all geographies that iland operates.

What is the difference between Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS)?

BaaS and DRaaS work together as part of an overall data protection and recovery strategy for IT. With BaaS, customers copy production data at regular, planned intervals to the cloud for long-term retention. If the data is lost, stolen, or accidentally deleted, the copied data from the BaaS environment is copied back to the production environment.

DRaaS solutions are distinct from BaaS and offer an important advantage. With DRaaS, data is replicated to the cloud for short-term retention. In the event the production data AND physical infrastructure is compromised (i.e. through flooding, fire, cybercrime, etc), the DRaaS environment provides a complete secondary environment to run production applications. Together, BaaS and DRaaS provide complete protection against nearly all data and hardware loss scenarios.

How is pricing for iland Secure DRaaS with Zerto determined?

Pricing is all-inclusive including your Zerto license, the cost of reserved storage (2 tiers), and bandwidth. Specific pricing depends on your environment and the resources consumed including the amount of storage needed, number of VMs, and RTO and RPO requirements. Our team of in-house experts can quickly determine your resource need using our free tool, iland Catalyst.

I want to take advantage of cloud-based DRaaS, but I am concerned about disrupting the network I already have in place. How will iland work with my existing network environment?

We understand the importance of preserving existing resources and investments when adopting new technologies. For this reason, we offer a number of solutions that enable existing networks, including other cloud provider networks, to communicate with your new iland service. In addition, we have dedicated Network Services available in the case you need assistance beyond standard configurations. Please reach out to us to learn more.

Does iland support 3rd party virtual firewalls?

Yes, we support 3rd party virtual appliance integration such as ASA in case customers don't want to use the NEA (Network Extender Appliance).

What are the different ways I can connect to iland's services?

iland Zipline: iland Zipline leverages Megaport's on-demand, software defined, network with on-ramps at over 600 data centers globally. Zipline provides virtual, cross-connect connectivity to enable you to build private, high-performance, highly-reliability connections to your own data centers, as well as other cloud providers. You can also have iland Zipline provisioned between your private data center and iland as part of a hybrid cloud environment, migration project, or disaster recovery project. With Zipline, you can connect all your workloads wherever they are running to ensure common application communication
VPN over internet: iland supports common VPN protocols to securely tunnel network traffic between environments - including IPsec VPN, OpenVPN, and Wireguard. IPsec is the most common protocol in use, and can provide an on-demand, secure connection between cloud providers.
Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN): SD-Wan can be used to help ease the burdens of communication between remote offices, data centers, and cloud environments. You can use SD-WAN to dynamically build secure VPN tunnels between end-points, monitor communication performance, and automatically adjust the traffic flows.

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