Ensuring the continuity of your business means being prepared for the unpredictable with an agile IT infrastructure that’s resistant to catastrophe and able to recover quickly when disaster strikes.

The UFBS Business Continuity Cloud is specifically designed to provide cost-effective business continuity options to enterprises of all sizes using private cloud resources. UFBS provides not just a replication target for your data—but the entire infrastructure solution including redundant, standby resources based on industry-leading VMware® solutions in our six high-availability cloud computing datacenters across North America and Europe.

Achieving business continuity

The most important objective of your business continuity plan is to ensure that business-critical data and processes are secured, and that unplanned downtime is minimized. This means restoring your IT infrastructure, data availability, operational processes, and business processes.

With the UFBS Business Continuity Cloud, your backup infrastructure is always in place. So you can run and restore business applications in addition to restoring data access. This lets you minimize downtime, quickly get business processes back up and running, and reduce impact to your customers and partners.

Standby resources

UFBS provides replication standby resources that mirror your primary site and are ready when you need them. You can choose multiple data protection solutions and scale-up or down to address business needs. Because they are standby, you only pay a monthly reservation fee to guarantee the resources are available when you need them.

Disaster recovery in the cloud

The UFBS Continuity Cloud provides several levels of protection to help you recover from downtime. Your workload can be replicated from virtual or physical environments to our high-availability cloud infrastructure and then hosted in stand-by mode. We can also provide replication across multiple SANs to our cloud infrastructure or elsewhere. VMs can be registered on our cloud in stand-by mode—ready to activate and keep your business up and running.

Data protection options

You can protect your business with customer-managed backups, UFBS-managed backups, and customized backup solutions. The UFBS-managed backup solution allows us to take care of ensuring nightly replication to our high-availability SANs. If your organization wants to control the backup process, UFBS provides the SAN infrastructure and you can manage the process yourself. If your company has complex needs, we can help simplify implementation of your storage solution. Our team can help you replicate VMs back to your site, host your collocated VTL for backup, connect you to third-party cloud backup providers, or many other custom processes to ensure the continuity of your data—and your business.