Want to Get More From Your BDR?
We'll shadow your BDR in the cloud
Maybe you are considering, or have invested in BDRs because an onsite hardware-based appliance provides one of the safest choices for a local disaster recovery solution. Unfortunately doing test restores of your BDRs isn’t easy, and is most often a manual, arduous, and time-consuming task, which puts you at risk if the BDR fails to restore when servers crash or a disaster strikes.
What if you could have a high availability solution that ensured the reliability and redundancy of your local BDR? Doyenz delivers rapid recovery, with the ShadowCloud™, you can count on reliable and rapid recovery of your server image backups every time, ensuring that you have your client back up and running in no time. The ShadowCloud not only gives you a secure, cost effective solution you need in a high availability solution, but you can use it in combination with your BDR to provide complete redundancy and data protection for your client needs.
- Rapid, reliable, cloud recovery and failover
- Validate data with fast, easy test restores
- Installs in minutes with your BDR
- No appliance or upfront investment required
How it works
Can I still use my existing BDR that my client paid for?
As long as your BDR leverages StorageCraft ShadowProtect the ShadowCloud solution can work alongside an existing BDR.
How difficult is it to switch from a Zenith/Datto or other BDR to the Doyenz ShadowCloud?
It is very straightforward. The ShadowCloud works with StorageCraft ShadowProtect in continuous mode. All you have to do is start a new backup chain, and send Doyenz the server base image which can be done via upload or shipping us a disk.
Does Doyenz offer a BDR unit?
Not at this time.
Do I need to purchase additional Storageraft or other licenses?
It depends on the existing solution being used.
What if my client has a long term contract with a BDR vendor?
The ShadowCloud is compatible with all BDRs running StorageCraft ShadowProtect.
If I use Doyenz does the BDR operate any differently on-site?
No
Getting Started
- What are the system requirements for the Doyenz ShadowCloud™?
- How does the ShadowCloud work?
- How is the ShadowCloud service enabled?
- How do I access the ShadowCloud Management Portal?
- How big is the host agent?
- How do I upload my server?
- How much bandwidth do I need to upload my server over the Internet and how long will the initial upload take?
- What kind of bandwidth do I need to upload daily backups to the service?
Security & Storage
- How is a client’s data protected when being transmitted?
- Where and how is the client’s data stored?
- Does Doyenz have multiple data centers?
- What kind of security permissions are employed?
- Does the ShadowCloud allow user access to be restricted by the client?
- Are audit trails provided?
Data Backup & Recovery
- How are data backups performed?
- How often are data backups performed?
- How is data restored?
- How is the integrity of the data checked, tested and reported?
- Can the service perform automatic test restores?
- How is data recovery managed?
- Does the ShadowCloud support bare metal server recovery?
Platform and Services Features and Functionality
- How does the ShadowCloud Dynamic Recovery™ service work?
- How does ShadowCloud Failover in the Cloud™ work?
- How does a client connect to their server while in failover mode?
- Is failover manual or automated?
- How is failback performed?
- How does the ShadowCloud Sandbox™ work?
- How are ShadowCloud Migration™s performed?
- What functionality is provided through the ShadowCloud Management Portal?
- How is the networking environment configured?
License Management
- Do you monitor and enforce compliance of software and operating system license usage?
- Does the ShadowCloud provide reporting? If so, does it include usage and activity? What type of views and formats?
- How is billing managed?
- Does the ShadowCloud provide server performance monitoring?
- Do you support ESX Clusters?
- Does the service perform automatic start and shut-down of the virtual machine?
- Can you run multiple instances of the same virtual machine configuration side by side?
- Can Doyenz start, shut-down, suspend, snapshot, and share virtual machines individually or as a complete system?
- Does Doyenz provide a configuration library of ISOs?