Credit Union Turns to ePlus for Cloud Disaster Recovery
Protects critical data and applications, minimizes downtime, and reduces infrastructure, maintenance, and operational expenses
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Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The customer wanted to improve their disaster recovery readiness and was considering solutions that would provide a comprehensive and resilient strategy that ensures business continuity, minimizes downtime, and protects critical data and systems.
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Challenge 2
They sought to evacuate and decommission a secondary data center to reduce costs and support an initiative to shift toward cloud-based services and modern IT practices.
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Why ePlus?
- ePlus has expertise in managed data protection and disaster recovery solutions focused on protecting on-premises workloads into public cloud providers.
- ePlus led the opportunity and provided technical resources to recommend an industry-leading solution, hosted in AWS, which included advanced networking design using AWS Direct Connect, online migration, and network extension requirements.
- ePlus was able to demonstrate value and cultivate trust by proposing a cost-effective disaster recovery solution.
Solution
Cloud Disaster Recovery
- ePlus engaged with the customer to review and configure an AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) environment. This included architectural and security components.
- ePlus created automation that could be inserted into code pipelines that would monitor the health of the replication as well as aid in the recovery of multiple AWS services in the event of failure.
- ePlus assisted with runbook creation and custom integration to further aid both recovery drills and failover events.
Business Outcomes
- Business continuity was enhanced as the organization was able to take advantage of its existing investment in AWS and successfully operationalize disaster recovery for the workloads in scope. Validation and testing of the workloads and integrated services were performed.
- The organization was able to lower costs due to proper sizing of storage volumes, point in time snapshot scheduling, and replication server architecture optimization.
- Runbooks were turned and created, resulting in operational enhancements and skillset enablement. Reusable templates can be used for future applications that require disaster recovery—saving precious resource time and effort.