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Available across all government networks, Disaster Recovery to
the Cloud enables public sector organisations to use UKCloud
platform as an environment to recover from IT failures.

The service mitigates a wide range of failure scenarios that can affect a local data
centre – including power cuts and natural disasters – as well as providing
protection against application failures, including unsuccessful software updates,
and malicious cyber attacks. The innovative Zerto technology enables customers to
easily roll-back cloud-based virtual machines (VMs) and workloads to a known safe
state, allowing services to be restored rapidly, minimising downtime and data loss.

Once an organisation has implemented Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, protected
applications are seamlessly and securely copied and stored on the UKCloud platform,
which acts as the recovery site. In the event of an application being compromised,
the organisation is able to quickly recover the application to the UKCloud platform
and, in so doing, make the service available to office-based users as well as mobile
users (to mitigate the risk of the entire office or site becoming unavailable).

Disaster Recovery to the Cloud is based on a pay-as-you-use cloud model;
organisations can select applications that are crucial for the provision of public
services, and therefore only pay for the disaster recovery or business continuity
that is needed.

With Disaster Recovery to the Cloud, organisations can:
– Replicate services and data from their existing data centre to UKCloud,
thereby ensuring critical public services can survive local IT failures or other
disasters
– Deliver business continuity and disaster recovery plans with recovery
time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) that meet their individual
requirements
– Easily validate disaster recovery and business continuity plans, by
safely simulating them without disrupting live workloads or risking loss of data
– Use a self-service portal to control their own recovery processes and
self-restore entire applications from any point in the journal