10 Keys to Unlocking Mobility in a Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid clouds give IT the agility and flexibility to deliver IT-as-a-Service. Key to maintaining SLAs in this new environment is the ability to protect, manage and – ultimately – recover data in an efficient manner. Unfortunately, every new virtual machine and public cloud solution erodes IT’s ability to do so. IT organizations need a data protection and management solution that protects and extends the cloud’s agility.

Here are 10 tips for achieving agility when protecting and managing data in a hybrid cloud.

Extend the cloud’s agility

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Avoid the temptation to address your cloud data protection and management needs separately from your on-premise data center. Consolidate data protection regardless of where data is located forever.

1. Achieve Data Center Equality

Deep integration across cloud storage platforms prevents vendor lock-in, while cloud orchestration and provisioning capabilities can streamline the management of cloud infrastructure for disaster recovery.

2. Choose a provider that knows cloud

Integration ensures you’ll always have the freedom to choose services based on your security, application, cost and reliability requirements.

3. Choose a Solutionwith Native Cloud

Storage Integration

Choose a provider that delivers array-based replication, VM replication, host-based block-level replication and WAN-optimized deduplication in a single, deeply integrated software package.

4. Use a “Best Fit” Approach to Getting

Data Offsite

A data management solution that deeply integrates with Azure, AWS, VMware and Hyper-V enables the provisioning and creation of images so that an entire application environment can be recovered in the cloud.

5. Integrate with a Variety of Cloud Compute

Platforms

Operationalize disaster recovery with pre-built workflows that tie everything together into a fully orchestrated recovery scenario to achieve a faster RTO.

6. Use Pre-Built Workflows for Disaster

Recovery

All data – regardless of where it resides – should be protected and managed from a single point of control that provides data movement, orchestration and management capabilities for both on-premise and cloud-based data.

7. Manage all Data from a Single Point of Control

Avoid using separate tools for managing and replicating data, and find data more efficiently so you don’t need to search with multiple tools to find the correct data copy.

8. Centralize Management of Backups, Snapshots

and Replication

A disaster recovery plan should address the entire process of orchestrating the recovery of a production workload using a data management solution that provides a complete view of the recovery process.

9. Ensure a Holistic View of the Recovery Process

Protect your data from unauthorized access with embedded encryption capabilities that can be applied comprehensively or selectively by policy. In addition, role-based access control integrated with Active Directory simplifies single sign-on for users while strengthening security.

10. Protect Data from Unauthorized Access

Preserving Agility with Data Recovery in the Cloud

You don’t have to sacrifice the agility and cost savings of your hybrid cloud to protect and manage your data. Learn how a cloud-based data management solution

leverages the cloud’s economics to preserve and extend agility and cost savings to your data backup and disaster recovery operations.

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