Over and above Silicon Sky’s backup offerings Silicon Sky provides Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to ensure continuity of critical workloads in the event of a disaster. Virtual workloads can be replicated from on premises, co-located or other cloud environments to Silicon Sky’s Cloud Platform. 

Silicon Sky facilitates DR using replication technologies from VMware and Veeam. Replication on a per virtual machine or an entire virtual estate enables customers to protect critical systems. DR is available for VMware and Hyper-V platforms with RPO’s as low as 5 minutes. The service includes self service management or can be managed by Silicon Sky. 

Customers have the option to replicate from on-premise into Silicon Sky’s Cloud Platform or between sites within Silicon Sky. Replication traffic is SSL encrypted from source to target to ensure no exposure during transit. For customers with VMware on-premise, simply select Silicon Sky as your DR target from within Virtual Centre and Replicate to Silicon Sky. 

Testing can be executed easily and simply without impacting existing replications. Testing is non-impactful and completely customizable from the start up order of VMs to modifying networking. 

DRaaS streamlines and simplifies DR processes as well as reducing cost. There is no need for capital investment for dedicated DR hardware as the service is based on a monthly OPEX fee.