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Disaster Recovery Optimisation

By investing in VDI for DR you can now deliver any application to any user anywhere in the world. The CEO can swipe his daughter’s laptop and in a jiffy his pre-configured USB “office on a stick” will deliver his actual desktop to him.

Service Oriented Infrastructure

To avoid repeating ourselves let’s assume you’ve read how Server Virtualisation, Storage Consolidation, and Backup Centralisation in line with robust Business Continuity can greatly enhance your IT services, save you money, and reduce risk in the event of a disaster. Let’s also assume you have adopted Automation to fully mechanise your operational run book processes, and you’ve replicated your key infrastructure assets to Union’s Tier 3.5 datacentre in Kent.

Peace of Mind

Now shut your eyes. Your primary systems are humming away happily in your datacentre (site A) efficiently, cost effectively, and in lock-step with business need; the business is well pleased; and should anything go wrong all key systems will automatically switch to Kent (site B) in a seamless and tested fashion. You’ve done it. You have totally optimised your disaster recovery (DR) responsibilities - you are at peace, you are an IT hero. This is where Union can take you.

DR Access

But there’s more. More you need to do and more you could do. If a disaster does strike and Site B kicks in to plan, you will still need to provide your users with access to those systems. This is traditionally done by paying a disaster recovery specialist an exorbitant annual fee to keep some seats warm for you in what is often referred to a workspace recovery suite. The problem with this is that it’s expensive, limits your ability to service all the users you may wish to, and is not always located where you would like it to be or with a service provider that really knows how your systems work.

Virtual Workspace Recovery

Union has developed its Virtual Workspace Recovery service to solve exactly this problem. It’s simple really - we augment your Site B rig with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). By investing in VDI for DR you can now deliver any application to any user anywhere in the world. The CEO can swipe his daughter’s laptop and in a jiffy his pre-configured USB “office on a stick” will deliver his actual desktop to him – screen saver of the kids, the lot. The service is unique to you, secure, and takes disaster recovery optimisation to another level.

We Do It

By combining Union’s disciplines in virtualisation, infrastructure consolidation, business continuity, communications, and security you are able to make DR part of your primary infrastructure design. By applying our processes, the latest technology, our Co-Lo & Hosting resources, and our Disaster Recovery Services, you are able to deliver levels of recovery services previously assumed to be unaffordable or not possible.