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Pain-points that Disaster Recovery as a Service tackles

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Feb 25, 2020 @ 01:53 PM

What’s your plan for an IT Disaster?

Given most companies will experience at least some downtime each year and sooner or later experience a major outage…… it’s wise to have a plan in place. 

 

In this guide we discuss;

 

  • the types of downtime's companies experience,
  • how they happen,
  • the impact they can have, both to the business’s reputation as well as its bottom line
  • and how planning ahead of time can avoid the worst impacts.
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The guide also looks at a unique approach to disaster recovery, namely, disaster prevention which can reduce the chance of an IT disaster and how disaster prevention can be combined with disaster recovery as a service to ensure your businesses has a comprehensive plan for any major IT disaster that will be effective.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, disaster recovery uae, disaster recovery as a service uae, veeam draas uae, cloud draas, azure recovery, azure recovery services

2018 Update: Ransomware is Still Quietly Growing

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Tue, Dec 11, 2018 @ 01:27 PM

In 2017, ransomware dominated the news. Malware like WannaCry and NotPetya sparked global outages. Based on its diminished position in the media, you’d be forgiven for thinking that ransomware represented a lesser threat this year.

 

While there have been fewer world-shaking attacks, however, ransomware has actually grown steadily more popular, with Sonicwall reporting a 108% increase in ransomware over 2017 levels. Here are a few hallmarks of ransomware growth in 2018.

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Topics: online backup dubai, IT Back Up, online backup uae, online disaster recovery uae, Veeam cloud uae, cloud draas, siem, siem audit

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

Eight questions to ask for Effective Backup and Disaster Recovery

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Dec 03, 2017 @ 10:59 AM

Whether you’re looking for a new backup and disaster recovery service provider or you’ve had the same one for ages, there are several questions you should keep in mind to ensure you have the most effective backup and disaster recovery plan.

 

1. Are you backing up the right files?

Obviously, you need to be sure that your backup and disaster recovery plan covers the most important files for your business. But think beyond just work product and database files: what about system configurations, metadata, application licenses, hidden files and calendar events? Backups of these “edge cases” will be essential to restoring your system from scratch if and when the time comes.

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Topics: IT Back Up, Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, disaster recovery as a service uae

BIOS has been entrusted with the Disaster Recovery of Tristar, MENA’s leading logistic service provider

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Sep 17, 2017 @ 01:26 PM

Cloud computing has become widely adopted across a broad range of industries in the Middle East and North Africa. Both small companies and large enterprises have recognized the importance of adapting innovations into their daily business operations to secure a steady growth within a constantly evolving market.

The need of integrated services that handle the DRaaS, SaaS, and IaaS of a company has led many businesses towards considering a cloud-oriented approach that either uses a hybrid or a cloud-only system to guarantee the security and integrity of company data.

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Topics: Disaster Recovery, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, disaster recovery as a service uae

10 Ways To Ensure Your Data Security in 2017

Posted by Nidhi Savla on Sun, Jan 08, 2017 @ 10:47 AM

Information security handles the protection of digital privacy of critical data of businesses, organizations, and individuals. It includes various preventive methods for restricting unauthorized access to databases, systems, machines, and networks.

Security measures include but are not restricted to data backups, encryption, DLP planning, digital rights management, and more. This article discusses ten things that you need to be doing in 2017 to ensure your data is secure.

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Topics: online backup dubai, IT Back Up, online disaster recovery uae, draas uae, it security, baas, data protection

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

5 questions to ask your online backup provider in Dubai & the UAE

Posted by Dominic Docherty on Tue, Oct 16, 2012 @ 05:16 PM

These days companies have extraordinary amounts of data but not necessarily extraordinary amounts of bandwidth at their disposal. In an emergency you can always access files with any Internet-connected computer and a web browser but there are situations in which a customer needs to restore a lot of data and online backup downloading would take too long or the hardware isn’t available. You don’t want to try and download 2TB from Europe – it could take weeks. Since Go Cloud is based in the Dubai we can deliver disks (and servers if required) in a matter of hours to your site throughout the UAE.

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Topics: online backup dubai, online backup uae, online backup, online disaster recovery uae

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