CPA firms require robust disaster recovery solutions to ensure continuous operations and data security. This blog provides an overview and comparison of backups in Microsoft Azure and Azure Site Recovery (ASR), with a focus on Netgain’s Managed Disaster Recovery Service leveraging ASR.
Limitations of Backups:
While backups play a crucial role in data restoration, they have certain limitations that can impact business continuity. These limitations include:
- Downtime: In the event of regional or subscription-level issues, restoring data from backups can be time-consuming and manual, leading to extended periods of downtime.
- Limited Testing Capabilities: Testing backups involves restoring servers, which is a time-consuming process. Moreover, testing is limited to the restored servers only, hindering comprehensive validation.
- Compliance Risks: Relying solely on backups may not meet compliance or cyber insurance requirements, exposing businesses to potential risks.
Comparison: Backups vs Azure Site Recovery:
The importance of a reliable disaster recovery plan cannot be overstated. Data integrity and availability are vital to CPA firms. As a leading Microsoft Partner, our Managed Azure Site Recovery solution ensures business continuity even in the face of unforeseen incidents.
Managed Azure Site Recovery: A Game-changer
Managed Azure Site Recovery brings together the power and flexibility of Azure Site Recovery with Netgain’s expertise in managed services. This combination provides a seamless, cost-efficient, and reliable disaster recovery solution that meets the specific needs of the CPA industry.
Why Choose Netgain’s Managed Azure Site Recovery?
- Expertise and Specialization: Azure demands specialized knowledge and experience. A managed service provider (MSP) brings a wealth of expertise to the table, sparing CPA firms the need to divert substantial resources toward internal training, and instead allows them to harness the proficiency of professionals’ adept in setting up and managing Azure disaster recovery.
- Fast and Efficient Disaster Recovery: Disasters can strike at any time. Our service offers rapid recovery times, ensuring your business operations remain uninterrupted, even during disasters. With a flexible recovery plan, you can choose the best recovery option tailored to your unique requirements, curtailing the risk of prolonged downtime and potential data loss.
- Cost-efficient: With Managed Azure Site Recovery, you only pay for the storage you use, eliminating the cost of maintaining a secondary disaster recovery site, making it a highly cost-effective solution for firms of all sizes. The cost of using Managed Azure Site Recovery is significantly lower compared to the potential loss in the event of prolonged downtime.
- Scalability: Azure offers near-unlimited resources. In a disaster recovery scenario, we replicate your data to another location, and when you need additional servers, Azure provides a plethora of pre-configured servers ready to start instantly.
- Uninterrupted Business Continuity: In the era of digital transactions, downtime is not an option. Netgain’s Managed Azure Site Recovery ensures your data is secure, and your operations continue even during unforeseen events.
- Meeting Compliance Needs: Regulatory bodies require businesses to have a disaster recovery plan. Our service meets these requirements, provides regular reports, and conducts recovery drills to ensure you’re always audit-ready.
- Protection Against Cyber Threats: The threat landscape is evolving, with ransomware and other cyber threats becoming increasingly common. Managed Azure Site Recovery provides an added layer of protection, ensuring a copy of your data is always available.
While backups are essential for data restoration, they have limitations that can hinder business continuity. Netgain overcomes these limitations by offering automated failover, disaster recovery orchestration, near-synchronous replication, continuous testing and monitoring, and compliance and security features.
By choosing Netgain’s Managed Azure Site Recovery service, businesses can ensure comprehensive business continuity, compliance adherence, and cost-effective disaster recovery solutions. Contact us today to learn more about how our Managed Azure Site Recovery can become an integral part of your business continuity plan.
Want to learn more? Check out our recent webcast on disaster recovery, “It’s a Disaster – Do You Have Azure Site Recovery?”