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Keep
Your Enterprise Moving Forward by Backing Up Right
Always
too late or never too late?
Enterprises
know they need to backup. Time is money, and business data is the product of
countless hours of labor and intelligence. Precious company goodwill,
resources, productivity, and competitiveness can be lost due to accidentally or
maliciously corrupted or deleted data, or data and applications made
unavailable due to hardware disasters or criminal hostage by ransomware.
Certain types of data are even irreplaceable. According to the National Cyber Security Alliance[i], cyberattacks caused 69% of
small organizations to be forced offline for a while and 37% experienced
financial loss. In 2019, cybercrime forced 10% of small businesses to shut
down.
Yet,
diligently backing up organizational data can be complicated, time-consuming,
and expensive. Many organizations only attempt to regularly back up the minimum
assets, such as a few critical servers and workstations. The remaining data and
applications, including work-in-progress documents, are left vulnerable to
risks. Having data properly backed up offsite, as it should be, makes all this
even more complicated.
Key Criteria in
Choosing a BaaS Provider
Offered
by an outside service provider, Backup-as-a-Service, or BaaS, addresses the
complexity and overhead of traditional enterprise backup methods. As a
virtualized cloud service, it is naturally offsite and managed by the provider.
It requires no on-premises hardware, and can be fully automated. BaaS
transparently handles all backup tasks in realtime, without relying on the
effort or diligence of in-house human operators. There are no tapes or disks to
manually rotate or keep track of, and it can be as specific or general as the
enterprise desires, protecting several servers or the entire organization. In
case of data issues, BaaS can offer easy and rapid data restoration so the
company can quickly resume operations and get back to work. This highly convenient,
cost-effective, and secure solution frees up staff so they can focus on more
productive tasks, without compromising data and applications integrity.
When
choosing a BaaS provider, several key criteria should be kept in mind:
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• Compatibility - As a start, check whether the backup service
supports your particular choices of operating systems and applications.
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• Compliance - Consider whether your industry has
compliance issues that impact usage of BaaS, and whether your organization can
create policies to accommodate those compliance requirements.
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• Security - Ask what security measures the service
provider offers to protect your digital assets.
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• Manageability - Check whether you can easily configure the
service through a user-friendly portal, or do you need to call the technical
support line to make adjustments and check on the status of your backups?
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• Cost-effectiveness - Research and compare pricing among different
BaaS vendors. The least expensive might not necessarily be the best value, if
the BaaS is not reliable or cannot fully ensure your business continuity.
You
should also consider other aspects of your IT infrastructure that can impact
the performance and success of BaaS usage. Do you have sufficient bandwidth to
support the realtime traffic to the BaaS provider’s offsite facilities, and
does the bandwidth allow you to restore data in a quick enough manner? If not,
check whether the service provider offers connectivity solutions alongside the
BaaS, which can scale in realtime according to your needs, with high
performance catering to the geographic locations you operate in.
Success with Managed
Services
Indeed,
aside from the technical aspects of the BaaS provider, you also need to
consider whether the service provider offers a range of other relevant managed
services. These services should at minimum include 7x24 customer support, and
also give you confidence about the reliability of the underlying platform
operating the BaaS solution. Professional consultation with certified experts
is also a high priority for successfully helping you evaluate and design a
reliable architecture that delivers the backup and disaster recovery
functionality for your business needs.
Because
you are planning for business success, you need to consider your future requirements
for expanding into other markets around the world. A BaaS service provider with
extensive points of presence and experienced local support will be instrumental
to achieving your roadmap milestones. Although BaaS is cloud-based and should
work from anywhere in the world, it is important your enterprise staff can
contact knowledgeable professionals for inquiries and support. Ideally, your
BaaS provider will have offices local to your own business points of presence,
and competently support your team members in their own native languages.
Listed
in Gartner’s Market Guide for BaaS[ii] - CITIC Telecom CPC
When
researching the most appropriate BaaS solution provider for your enterprise
needs, be sure not to overlook CITIC Telecom CPC, listed in Gartner’s Market
Guide for Backup as a Service (May 2020) as one of the key BaaS hosters in
China, the Middle East & Africa, Japan, and the rest of APAC. CITIC Telecom
CPC’s SmartCLOUD™ BRR gives enterprises a full range of managed backup,
replication and recovery services. It was created based on all the
considerations discussed above, and provides operation modes that include
onsite, offsite, and a variety of physical and virtual replication models. To
speed up deployment, SmartCLOUD™ BRR supports “initial seed” transfers of your
enterprise data to significantly reduce time and bandwidth needed for the
initial full backup, and gives you the flexibility to have copies of your
enterprise backup stored both in the cloud datacenter and locally on your
premises for quick recovery if possible. SmartCLOUD™ BRR protects your
sensitive data using encryption for both data-in-transit and data-at-rest
giving your backup the most comprehensive data protection.
CITIC
Telecom CPC also provides a user-friendly online management portal called
ManagedCONNECT where your enterprise backup status and usage information can be
easily accessed. ManagedCONNECT also provides visibility and configurability
for other CITIC Telecom CPC flagship solutions your enterprise might choose to
interoperate with SmartCLOUD™ BRR, including the SmartCLOUD™ cloud computing
platform itself, TrustCSI™ comprehensive network security and enterprise
protection (covering a wide range of modern threats including ransomware
detection), TrueCONNECT™ carrier-class global and regional networking, and much
more.
Similar
to other BaaS solutions, SmartCLOUD™ BRR is offered on a subscription basis,
with pricing based on the backup type. For example, backing up your
enterprise’s physical servers, virtual machines (such as VMware and Hyper-V
instances), and Microsoft Office 365 installations. The subscription pricing
will also vary depending on your cloud storage and bandwidth requirements.
Act Today to Protect
Your Data and Your Future
To
help customers with inquiries and technical support for SmartCLOUD™ BRR and
other solutions, CITIC Telecom CPC’s 24x7 professionals are always on hand,
even offering native language support via the company’s many points of presence
around the world. In fact, CITIC Telecom CPC is staffed by over 1,000 business
and technology professionals with deep experience in their areas of expertise,
including extensive IT industry certifications and vertical industry
experience, all working at more than 140 points of worldwide presence, 18 cloud
service centers, 30+ data centers, and two dedicated 24x7 Security Operations
Centers.
Whether
your organization ultimately decides to use CITIC Telecom CPC’s SmartCLOUD™ BRR
or another vendor’s BaaS solution, it is imperative this decision is made
sooner rather than later. Every second your mission critical digital data is
not properly backed up, it is exposed to countless vulnerabilities, including
those catastrophic enough to cease business operations. To make sure your company
stays competitive and maintains its forward momentum, protect its achievements
by backing up with the right BaaS.
To enjoy hassle-free
and flexible managed cloud backup services, REGISTER HERE for the latest SmartCLOUD™ BRR offers with FREE restoration test!
[i] https://www.darkreading.com/operations/10--of-small-businesses-breached-shut-down-in-2019/d/d-id/1336156
[ii] https://www.gartner.com/doc/3984617
About CITIC Telecom CPC
We
are CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (“CITIC Telecom CPC”), a wholly
owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883),
serving multinational enterprises the world over by addressing their specific
ICT requirements with highly scalable tailored solutions built upon our
flagship technology suites, comprising TrueCONNECT™ private network solutions,
TrustCSI™ information security solutions, DataHOUSE™ cloud data center
solutions, and SmartCLOUD™ cloud computing solutions.
As
a leading Global Local ICT Solutions Partner with worldwide footprint across
East to West and native presence, we truly live our motto, “Innovation Never
Stops.” Being a preferred Digital Society Enabler, we lead our key markets at
the forefront of pioneering ICT development, embracing AI, AR, Big Data, IoT,
and other cutting-edge emerging technologies to transform technical potential
into real-world value for our customers, helping them achieve higher
productivity, agility, cost-efficiency, and ultimately, Digital
Globalization.
As
one of the first managed service providers in Hong Kong to achieve ISO 9001,
14001, 20000, 27001, and 27017 ICT-related certifications, CITIC Telecom CPC
delivers on our superior quality commitment through a broad global self-managed
infrastructure encompassing some of the highest growth markets in Asia, Europe
and America, with over 140 points of presence, 18 Cloud service centers, 30+
data centers, and two dedicated 24x7 Security Operations Centers.
For
more information please visit www.citictel-cpc.com
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Contact:
Rowena Leung
CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited
(852) 2170 7536
