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Why do SMBs need a disaster recovery plan?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Sep 20, 2022 @ 12:23 PM

Digital transformation and remote working arrangements pushed small and medium businesses (SMBs) to leverage the cloud to store their critical data and work processes. While the cloud opens up new opportunities for businesses to scale faster, it also presents a few challenges. One of these is data breach and loss.


According to this 2022 report, the Middle East ranked second on the list of data breach losses after the US, incurring losses of SR28 million from data breaches in 2022 alone.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, disaster recovery uae, cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, cloud draas, BIOSME Saudi Arabia, draas saudi arabia, disaster recovery saudi arabia, cloud dr saudi arabia

Which DRaaS should you choose? Download Gartner’s market guide to find out

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Jun 22, 2021 @ 12:36 PM

Disaster recovery (DR) enables GCC organisations to continue functioning in the event of a catastrophic event. A strong DR solution can make or break an organisation’s ability to recover from such a setback, whether this is natural or manmade. When every second of downtime means lost revenue, disaster mitigation demands quick thinking and immediate action.


As Gartner explains, DRaaS is a great option for infrastructure and operations leaders who want to cost-effectively improve IT resilience, meet compliance or regulatory requirements, and address resource deficiencies. But with so many vendors offering all sorts of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) packages, CSOs can easily come down with a severe case of analysis paralysis. But the DRaaS market consists of hundreds of providers, each with varying abilities to support requirements. These requirements encompass different workload types, geographies, levels of onboarding and ongoing support, number of recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) options, and target recovery locations, according to Gartner

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Topics: draas uae, cloud dr uae, Veeam cloud uae, veeam draas uae, cloud draas, cloud dr saudi arabia, zerto dr uae

Is DraaS the right resilience approach for GCC companies?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Thu, May 20, 2021 @ 08:54 AM

As the business world acquaints itself with the new normal, innovation and digital competitiveness have emerged as game-changers on the road to long-term agility, according to a Gartner survey of nearly 2,000 CIOs in 74 countries. And as the pandemic proved, digital leadership is underpinned by organisational resilience.

 

But what is the right resilience approach for GCC companies?

Disaster Recovery as a service (DRaaS) has shot into the spotlight over the past year, in large part because of its cost-effective role in allowing organisations to recover data and IT infrastructure even in the most extreme situations. As Gartner defines it, DRaaS is a facility in which the provider manages server image and data replication to the cloud, run book creation, automated failover and failback to and from the cloud, and network element configuration during and for recovery operations.

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Topics: cloud dr uae, cloud draas, cloud dr saudi arabia, cloud dr qatar, cloud dr oman

Backup? Disaster Recovery or Disaster Recovery as a Service?

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Mon, Feb 10, 2020 @ 10:39 AM

 

In truth most businesses that have any sort of size will want to have backup and also some kind of disaster recovery. But they don’t always. Often Disaster Recovery is perceived as too complicated or expensive. Perhaps this was the case several years ago but things have changed. When considering your companies backup and DR strategy consider some scenarios: 

 

Which is right for my company?

Its Sunday morning 9 am. You start work but you can’t connect to any of your servers. Your IT checks the server and sees a message ‘Your data has been encrypted. To receive the decryption key send 10 bitcoins to this address’.

Hopefully you’ll be able to restore from backup. This assumes it has been working properly. You’ll be down for a day or 2. The business will be ok but how much will that cost your business?


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Topics: draas uae, disaster recovery uae, cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, business continuity, veeam draas uae, cloud draas, azure recovery, azure recovery services

BIOS Middle East only regional player in Gartner's Magic Quadrant on DRaaS

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Jul 07, 2019 @ 09:10 AM

For the 3rd consecutive year BIOS Middle East is recognized as the only regional player in Gartner's 2019 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

 

Dubai, UAE, July 3, 2019: BIOS Middle East, UAE’s leading Managed Cloud Provider, announced that it has been included in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant report on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), for the third year in a row. Gartner's June 2019 Magic Quadrant report on DRaaS, has BIOS Middle East as one of only 11 companies globally and the only company from the Middle East on their 2019 DRaaS Magic Quadrant.

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Topics: cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, it managed services, gartner, cloud draas

BIOS Middle East Positioned in Gartner Magic Quadrant for the Second Year in a Row

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Aug 28, 2018 @ 09:49 AM

  • DUBAI, UAE, August 28, 2018

    BIOS Middle East, the Middle East's largest cloud provider with its in region cloud, CloudHPT is pleased to announce, that it has been named by Gartner Inc. in the 2018 "Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service" for the second year in a row.

  • BIOS Middle East, which leverages its in-region cloud, CloudHPT, to deliver its Assured Recovery Services was just one of 10 vendors globally (reduced from 23 in 2017) included in this year's list and was once again the only company from the Middle East.

  • In the Magic Quadrant for this market sector, Gartner analysts evaluated 10 service providers that offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.
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Topics: online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, certification, cloud draas

What does downtime cost you? Find out now!

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Wed, May 09, 2018 @ 01:32 PM

BC/DR. DRaaS. RTO. RPO…you’re probably asking yourself, “is this even English? What am I reading?!?!?”

Yes, it’s English…and they’re acronyms that are crucial to the recover-ability of your data and the fiscal health of your organization. Business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) are strongly considered among businesses today to safeguard their organization in the event of critical data and revenue loss due to lack of productivity while being down.

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Topics: draas uae, cloud dr uae

Disaster Recovery UAE

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Mon, Oct 12, 2015 @ 12:36 PM

Thanks to cloud computing, effective disaster recovery no longer requires extensive hardware and software build-out and maintenance. Proper business continuity is possible with Zerto’s comprehensive replication technology and lightning fast recovery.

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Topics: VMware UAE, VMware, draas uae, cloud dr uae

DRaaS UAE or Cloud Disaster Recovery UAE

Posted by Dominic Docherty on Wed, Oct 02, 2013 @ 12:51 PM

How to Implement a DR Strategy that Works: Recovery in the Cloud

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Topics: Cloud Computing, Cloud Provider UAE, Cloud UAE, online backup, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, disaster recovery uae, cloud dr uae, disaster recovery as a service uae

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