Backed by over 25 years of experience, Sapphire Cloud provides Small and Medium Businesses with outstanding business continuity and disaster recovery solutions on our private commercial cloud. Our team of experts will evaluate your IT systems to devise a DR strategy that works for you and your budget, including both physical and virtual servers and infrastructure. If your IT Service Provider is not a Sapphire Cloud Partner, ask them to sign up so you can have access to one of the fastest growing private commercial cloud services. If you do not have an IT Service Provider, we will work with you to find a reseller who meets your needs.
When creating a DR plan it is important to take into account your every IT need so you can get your most important applications back up and running as soon as possible. We can seamlessly synchronize our cloud systems with your on-site tools ensuring that your data is always protected based on the following industry standard metrics:

• Recovery Time Objective (RTO) or how long you have before you need access to your applications and data after an emergency.
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) or how much data loss you can tolerate.
• Service-Level Objective (SLO) or how much data recovery you need and when you need it.

SLO’s help you devise your DR plan on an application basis. For example, you can go a lot longer without your credit card processing system than you can go without your reporting applications. SLO’s also let you know which systems you can and cannot move to a cloud-based system due to their latency restrictions.

Finally, you need to know how long you need your DR system in place. Not all disasters result in total loss of on-site capability, and you need to know how much backup you will need based on your server, multisystem or shared system, and data center loss risks. You may only need a few hours or days of DR service in most situations, but a total loss may require weeks or months of backups before you can rebuild your facilities.

Regardless of the DR system you get, your plan must take into account your infrastructure needs and risks and the duration of your recovery.

If you have any questions or would like guidance with your business continuity planning contact me (naum.lavnevich@sapphirecloudsolutions.com) or go to the Sapphire Cloud’s website at www.sapphirecloudsolutions.com for more information.