How do you choose the right Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) vendor to leverage the cloud to provide additional security and reliability to your enterprise? What are the services, expertise levels and transparency required to sort out the ideal BDR vendor for your business? Are you looking for a BDR provider, or a vendor that will perform as a dependable BDR partner – one that cares about your business stability, performance and growth?
When taking measures to secure your business continuity and protect your company’s vital digital assets, finding the right BDR vendor – one that will keep your business up and running no matter what – is critical.
Here are 9 business continuity questions that you should present to your BDR finalists!
- Do you provide a hybrid cloud backup solution? A hybrid cloud backup solution is optimal to achieve intelligent business continuity, as it encapsulates the best of the private and public models to form a feature rich, highly efficient, and affordable system
- Can you provide my client instant local virtualization? Downtime costs you and your client money. Being down for hours is simply unacceptable. Current BDR solutions should allow you to have servers booting instantly locally, so that client services can be restored and back in the right place in a matter of minutes.
- Can you provide proof of backup? Your BDR vendor should be able to provide screenshot verification.
- Do you virtualize off-site? It’s imperative to offer your clients the peace of mind that their critical business infrastructure can be brought online quickly in the cloud. This allows continuous uptime.
- Do you deliver an off-site sync method that manages bandwidth? It’s critical that a BDR be able to prioritize if data is local or off-site, thus managing bandwidth to provide greater flexibility, increased reliability and higher transfer speeds of your off-site backups.
- Do you have multiple data centers, in geographically diverse locations? This is important for three reasons. First, it ensures that even if data is removed locally, there is a secure copy off-site that can be restored. Second, it saves money because your local device capacity does not have to cover your entire backup repository. And third, in case of a regionalized disaster, at least one data center location must not be affected.
- Do you offer flexible contracts and upgrade policies? Constant change is a fact of life in IT. It’s critical to select a vendor whose goal is to help its Partners succeed, by offering flexible contracts and upgrade policies. Also, in the unfortunate event that a client is lost, it’s important you are not on the hook for their BDR contract.
- Do you provide US-based technical support? If you’re in the middle of a backup or disaster crisis, you need the best technical and customer support available, at the time it’s required.
- Do you offer Intelligent Business Continuity? Only an intelligent business continuity solution takes BDR to the next level, to mitigate risk and keep your clients’ systems running in the event of a technical or natural disaster.
CompuData will create a unique business continuity plan for your business to prevent and recover your business systems with the least amount of business disruption. We’ll determine the most reasonable expectation for business impact caused by disruptive events – whether cybersecurity breaches or natural disaster. We’ll also work around the clock to recover your data and get your business up-and-running if your business ever does go down – so your business remains productive. To get started, click here for more information!