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Disaster Recovery as a Service

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The experts have said the same thing for years: when it comes to protecting your data and applications, it’s not just about the backup. Being able to rapidly recovery your key servers and applications to production is just as important. Because every minute you’re down, you’re losing business.

The fact is, too many companies don’t protect their data. They may say it’s too complicated or too expensive. And they it let it slide…hoping that at the end of the day, they still have the data with which they started.Even if they back up their data, a lot of companies find getting it back can be problematic: fewer than one-third of companies with a disaster recovery plan have ever bothered testing it to make sure it still works.

Today, Windstream Hosted Solutions introduces a new approach: leveraging the power of cloud computing and our proven experience to help you protect and recover your information. DRaaS is designed to help companies like yours replicate your critical servers and applications

to the cloud, so that you can protect your applications and data, and get them back precisely when you need them most. You could, of course, implement a costly,

replication-based disaster recovery solution yourself. But why? DRaaS makes it far more feasible and affordable for companies of all sizes to take advantage of replication and recovery to a secondary environment while gaining the benefits of a fully-managed recovery process.

It’s all about recovery. Faster, better. Not to mention cost effective.

50% firms have a formaldisaster recovery plan

28% firms have testedtheir disaster recovery plan

23% firmsback up data daily

Data from Symantec SMB DisasterPreparedness Survey 2011

The disaster recovery dilemma:

Amount companies lose for for every hour of downtime (IDC)

Yearly cost of downtime at almost one-third of companies (Aberdeen)

Percentage of companies that back up mission-critical applications /data to tape, and manually transport them offsite (Forrester / DRJ)

$84,000

$3.9million

38%

A RecenT FoRReSTeR / DRJ SuRvey FounD The AveRAge Time To RecoveRy AFTeR A DiSASTeR WAS 18.5 houRS, up FRom 17 houRS in 2007.

The advantages are fantastic. The peace of mind, even better.

Windstream’s Disaster Recovery as a Service combines the best of replication, cloud and virtualization technologies, delivering a comprehensive solution that provides everything you need to ensure your data and applications are safe and secure, and will be there when you need them most. We even make it possible for you to run your data center from our facilities until the emergency passes.

We’ve thought of everything so you don’t have to. Windstream consultants will help you design a solution that fits your particular needs from a proven range of options. Once you sign on, we provide everything you require to continuously protect your data and get you back up and running when disaster strikes.

• We provide a menu of replication options that allow you to continually replicate critical servers (whether physical or virtual) into our cloud environment, leveraging host-based replication or storage-based replication for EMC and NetApp customers

• We pre-build the entire virtual recovery environment in our cloud data centers, including private network

connectivity, security and per-server failover plans linked to a continuously updated replica of each of your servers

• Our expert staff provides fully managed recovery of your servers, configuring them to run within our cloud environment until you are able to restore operations at your primary data center

It all dramatically simplifies the disaster recovery process, making sure you get your applications back online as quickly as possible, so that you’re back in business in a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself. There’s no need for CapEx spending, and you control your OpEx spending based on what you need.

And if you’re worried about where your data is being stored…don’t. Our DRaaS data centers are SSAE 16-compliant, with 2N power redundancy. That means the lights never go out. We’ve built them to comply with PCI, SOX and HIPAA requirements. In addition, Fortune 500 companies nationwide trust us to handle their production environments.

Windstream’s DRaaS is specifically designed to protect your critical applications and data from the downtime caused by either a natural or man-made disaster:

• Provides continual replication of your servers (physical and virtual) or EMC and NetApp storage environments into the Windstream Cloud with application-consistent recovery solutions for key applications like Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint and more

• Leverages our skilled operations teams to deliver fully-managed recovery of servers and storage for either actual disasters or disaster recovery tests, enabling you to quickly restore and restart your applications

• Provides integration with your existing VPN or private network to secure replication traffic and enable rapid recovery and continuity of operations for end users

DRaaS is available with multiple replication options; each leverages your existing infrastructure investment.

• Storage-based replication for EMC-powered or NetApp-powered data centers

• Host-based replication for any physical or virtual environment

Your Windstream consultant will work with you to tailor a customized solution, based on customer-tested and proven pre-architected models…one that fits your company’s specific needs.

Visit us today to learn about how we can help to drive performance and reduce cost for your company. windstreambusiness.com/draas | 888.452.6825WHS | 9622 | 3.12

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