Non-Profit Strengthens Disaster Recovery Strategy with ePlus Cloud Expertise
Empowering resilience, flexibility, and cost-efficiency for a life-saving healthcare organization
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Business Challenges
Challenge 1
The non-profit healthcare organization operates critical applications from both AWS and a centralized enterprise data center and sought to provide the same level of resiliency for cloud and on-premises workloads.
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Challenge 2
Their current data center disaster recovery posture could not meet the RPO and RTO of AWS and exposed critical systems to risk.
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Challenge 3
Current data center space was within one of their offices with reduced flexibility of facilities.
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Why ePlus
- To address these challenges, the organization partnered with ePlus to evaluate cloud, on-premises, and hybrid solutions that would decouple infrastructure from physical constraints and improve disaster recovery capabilities.
- ePlus has a 15+ year history of evaluating, designing, deploying, and managing disaster recovery solutions for critical customer workloads.
- As an original launch partner of the AWS Resilience Competency, ePlus has a proven methodology to assist customers with protecting their critical data sets and ensuring availability for applications across both planned and unplanned events.
Solution
Cloud Disaster Recovery
ePlus Professional Services:
- Cost and requirement assessment with comparisons between colocation, cloud, and self-hosted data center
- AWS Disaster Recovery Landing Zone build
- Implementation of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service for virtual machine workloads
- Full DR runbook creation and testing
Business Outcomes
Proof Points
- Went from 50% to 100% workload recovery in disaster recovery event
- 7% YoY savings compared to previous solution with double the workload protection
- Ability to test full workload recovery in disaster recovery drill
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Strategic Infrastructure Decoupling and Disaster Recovery Modernization
Through a collaborative discovery process, ePlus helped the non-profit define business and technical requirements for decoupling their enterprise data center from office space. By evaluating multiple architectures and presenting detailed total cost of ownership comparisons, ePlus empowered the organization to select a hybrid solution that enhanced disaster recovery posture while maintaining operational control. This strategic shift positioned them for greater resilience and scalability.
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Informed Decision Making and Financial Justification
ePlus provided objective guidance and financial modeling that enabled the organization to confidently present a new infrastructure strategy to its Board of Directors. The combination of cloud and data center expertise empowered the customer to explore hybrid options that balanced cost and capabilities. With ePlus support, they justified the investment and gained executive buy-in for a future-ready disaster recovery solution.
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