Shore up business continuity plans with Microsoft Azure
Business continuity has moved to the cloud. Compared with manual or on-premise backup systems, a cloud-based business continuity plan offers a more efficient and affordable solution to getting your systems up and running quickly while reducing potential liabilities in the event of an outage, data breach, disaster or other emergency. Rand Group will design your business continuity plan using Microsoft Azure cloud tools.
Keep your business running with cloud-based business continuity solutions
Even the most minor outage can put you at a competitive disadvantage. In fact, according to an Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC) study, 98% of organizations say a single hour of downtime costs over $100,000. Be prepared to mitigate this scenario with a business continuity plan that includes systems and processes ensuring all areas of your business will be able to maintain essential operations or be able to resume them as quickly as possible in the event of a crisis, emergency, or outage.
Rand Group will help your organization prepare for potential threats with a business continuity plan that includes cloud backup and disaster recovery for your critical systems with a solution built in the Azure cloud. Microsoft Azure offers solutions that make it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads, keep your applications running during outages, and store vast amounts of rarely accessed data. With Rand Group as your partner and Azure’s solutions, you can rest assured that your business has the solutions it needs to keep running in the event of an outage.
Built-in data security
Take advantage of multi-layered security provided by Microsoft across physical datacenters, infrastructure, and operations in Azure.
Only pay for the resources you need
With Azure, only pay for as many resources as you need to backup your data and support your applications. Scale up or down with the click of a button.
A comprehensive, custom business continuity plan
Plan for the unexpected across your people, processes, and technology and enable a secure, cloud-based plan tailored to your business to protect it from disruption.
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Protecting data privacy using Microsoft Azure
With data and privacy requirements that are complex and constantly evolving, meeting compliance obligations in this dynamic regulatory environment can be challenging. Microsoft Azure, designed from the ground up to protect data, includes many tools and features that can help you navigate this ever-changing landscape. This whitepaper outlines a five-step approach to data governance for protecting both customer and personal data.
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Protecting data privacy using Microsoft Azure
With data and privacy requirements that are complex and constantly evolving, meeting compliance obligations in this dynamic regulatory environment can be challenging. Microsoft Azure, designed from the ground up to protect data, includes many tools and features that can help you navigate this ever-changing landscape. This whitepaper outlines a five-step approach to data governance for protecting both customer and personal data.
Backup and recover your data from the Microsoft Azure cloud
The Azure Backup service provides simple, secure, and cost-effective solutions to back up your data and recover it from the Microsoft Azure cloud. Backup files, folders, and system states both on-premise and in the Azure cloud using built-in backup, and use Recovery Services vaults for short-term and long-term data retention.
- Backup on-premise resources to the cloud without the need to deploy on-premise backup solutions
- Isolated backups guard against accidental destruction of original data
- Scale easily and get unlimited data transfer
- Choose from multiple storage options
- Automatically allocate and manage backup storage using a pay-as-you-go model
Keep your apps running with Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during unexpected and expected outages. Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location, so that if an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to secondary location, and access apps from there without issue.
Benefits of Azure Site Recovery:
- Eliminate the need for building or maintaining a secondary datacenter
- Only pay for the resources you need to support your applications in Azure
- Customize and sequence the failover and recovery of multi-tier applications running on multiple VMs
- Easily run disaster recovery drills, without affecting ongoing replication
Efficiently manage data with Azure Archive Storage
Many industries require that organizations maintain multiple years of sensitive financial, medical, or employee data. Azure Archive Storage offers low-cost, durable, and highly available secure cloud storage for this rarely accessed data with flexible latency requirements. Store terabytes of data in the cloud that is automatically encrypted for only a few dollars a month, and repurpose your storage infrastructure for other critical business objectives.
Key benefits of Azure Archive Storage:
- Organize your data based on how frequently it will be accessed and how long it will be retained
- Blob storage allows hot, cool, and archive objects to exist side-by-side in the same account
- Automatic security of data at rest using 256-bit AES keys
Cloud services from Rand Group tailored to your business
Rand Group offers numerous cloud computing services on the Microsoft Azure platform to meet your needs and strategy. Our industry experience combined with years of working with Microsoft as a certified partner positions us to deliver solutions that not only solve immediate business challenges, but also provide stability and scalability.
Infrastructure as a Service
Eliminate capital expenses and reduce ongoing costs with IaaS from Rand Group. Respond quickly to shifting business conditions by scaling resources up and down to accommodate spikes in demand for your applications.
Cloud Hosting & Storage
Host your data and applications on Azure with Rand Group. Take advantage of multi-layered security provided across physical datacenters, infrastructure and operations with Microsoft’s uncompromising commitment to privacy.
Cloud Strategy
Achieve your long term and short term goals with a cloud strategy that aligns with your business objectives. We will help your organization understand and embrace technology changes that will improve business outcomes.
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Key benefits of Azure Backup
Azure Backup is a Microsoft service that is designed to back up and recover your data from the Microsoft Azure Cloud. With Azure Backup you have a simple, cost-effective, reliable option for backing up your data to the cloud. The centralized management interface makes it easy to define backup policies and protect a wide range of enterprise workloads.
How much does 1 hour of downtime cost the average business?
Infrastructure matters. When your network or applications unexpectedly fail or crash, it can have a direct and far reaching impact on your bottom line and ongoing business operations. In some extreme cases, data and monetary losses from unplanned outages can even cause a company to go out of business.
Rand Group recognized on Accounting Today’s VAR 100 list for 2020
For the 16th consecutive year, Rand Group has earned a place in Accounting Today’s VAR 100 list. The Top 100 VARs (Value Added Resellers) are chosen from more than 1,000 organizations specializing in the sale and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. This award distinguishes Rand Group as one of the leading value-added resellers in the accounting space.
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