Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery Primary Use Case

SS
Technical Director at Computer Driven Solutions

We are an IT support company, so we resell IT and support services. It is our customers who have installations of disaster recovery appliances and cloud backup solutions.

We are our customer's IT support company. We are the ones who implement and support it. Our customer pays the bill, but we do all the support, looking after it. I do not back my own data up on Infrascale, but I definitely back up my customers' data.

We sell and support two products for our customers. We have four disaster recovery appliances onsite that then back up to the cloud from the appliance. We also have quite a few people on just the cloud backup. So, we use cloud backup and DRasS, which is disaster recovery as a service.

When there is an appliance-type installation, which is a physical hardware installation, we go to the site and install a piece of hardware. That piece of hardware communicates with their servers onsite. Their servers are hosts with virtual servers built onto them. The complete virtual machine is backed up maybe twice or three times daily to the hardware appliance provided by Infrascale. That could then become a replacement for the server, if the server had a physical problem and needed to be shut down. We can turn the physical server off onsite, go to the appliance provided by Infrascale, boot up the virtual machine on the appliance, and then it would run the business as if the server were still running. So, it is hardware redundancy for the server.

It backs up the virtual machines, backing them up and all the files. So, it can be a data recovery tool as well. Also, if the entire building burnt down, we could jump onto the version in the cloud, boot that up, and people from all around the world could log into that server to carry on working.

Imagine an appliance, similar to installing a second server, that backs up a virtual machine to the appliance. It has disk space on the appliance, then it backs up that virtual machine from the appliance to the cloud. Our cloud is based in the UK, which is also provisioned by Infrascale. So, we implement that sort of system, which is a little bit like SaaS, but it is a disaster recovery solution. We also have cloud backup, which is a software installation to a server, that then backs up certain files and folders through a cloud provision somewhere in the world.

We are the actual customer because we sign for these products, and our customer doesn't. We are the actual people who lease these things from them.

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HS
President at Let Us Deal With IT, LLC

My clients need a successful, reliable disaster recovery solution that works well. They're using it for backup on-prem, to restore individual files if needed, and in case a physical server dies, so that they can spin up a virtual server within a couple of minutes. That way, they make sure that there is no interruption in service. We also use it to put up all those virtual servers in the cloud. If the company has to declare a disaster on-prem, they can actually work in the cloud within five to 10 minutes, so that they don't lose any business. It is really specific for on-prem environments because the cloud can run everything.

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DG
Network Engineer at ECMSi

We are a managed services provider, so we use them in multiple environments.

In our company, we use it as our backup and disaster recovery solution. We have an on-premises appliance that all of our servers and data backup onto. That replicates out to the Infrascale cloud data center and then from there, we have both our on-premises and offsite backups.

If anything were to ever happen in the buildings, we can spin up on either appliance, on-premises, or on the cloud, depending on the disaster, and get us back up and running. That's pretty much the same model we use for all of our partners that are out there. We have between 30 and 40 different partners that we're using Infrascale products on.

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AC
CIO at Innercore Tech

One of our clients is an upscale resort that has about 70 virtual servers plus a handful of physical servers. We ended up putting in two devices and replicating to the cloud. We're their managed service provider and do all of their IT work.

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JK
Vice President of Technology at SolutionStart

100% of our use cases are DRaaS. As an MSP, we deploy it to clients, backing up all their infrastructure and replicating it to Infrascale Cloud.

We have so many deployed. We usually try to stay on the most current version. There might be a few that are a version behind.

It deployed as a hybrid. We use on-prem Infrascale appliances, then replicate for the disaster recovery to their private cloud (Infrascale Cloud).

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Owner at Vtek Systems

We use it for backups of our data on our servers. So, we use it in a four-hour incremental backup.

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CS
IT Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

I have remote users and I needed to be able to back up their stuff. So all my remote people have it. I needed a backup solution that was distributed, just like my workforce. It is 100 percent cloud-based, and fire-and-forget.

I have also set it up for a few of my high-profile users, which includes all of my management team. Because we're a hospital, there isn't a lot of data on the nurses' workstations, so there's no real need to back those up.

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CS
Director of Technical Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Our primary use case is Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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RS
Consultant at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We use it for simple, day-to-day backup of files and of virtual machines. But the overall requirement is to have a system in place that meets disaster recovery and business continuity requirements, which this does.

It is a physical deployment with replication to cloud.

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GH
IT Support Engineer at Gotech

We are using this solution for backing up our systems to the cloud. Many of the systems being backed up are laptops. We also resell this solution to our clients.

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