Karine DilanyanAtmosphere is a powerful cloud solution that not only meets diverse business needs but also offers advanced disaster recovery features to ensure your operations stay resilient and your data remains secure, no matter what challenges arise.
One of the biggest concerns of businesses nowadays is the unforeseen challenge of losing data due to hardware collapse, cyberattacks, or other reasons. Sadly, 52% of businesses worldwide lack a proper disaster recovery plan as of 2021. Data loss or disruption is a risk no business would want to take; thus, taking precautions is the best option here.
Atmosphere’s disaster recovery feature offers a significant value proposition for businesses. It acts as a safety net, ensuring operational continuity and data integrity even during unforeseen disruptions. In short, VEXXHOST’s Atmosphere has got your business covered.
But before we jump into decoding the disaster recovery feature and its necessity, let’s briefly go over Atmosphere.
What is Atmosphere?
VEXXHOST's Atmosphere is a comprehensive cloud solution built on OpenStack, offering a flexible and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. Designed for diverse deployment options – public cloud, dedicated private cloud, or on-premise environments – Atmosphere caters to a wide range of business needs.
It leverages open-source technologies and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like Kubernetes for container orchestration and Ceph for storage, delivering a robust and modern cloud experience. Key features include compute, networking, storage options, identity management, and orchestration services, allowing for extensive customization and integration with existing infrastructure.
Whether deployed publicly, hosted in global data centers, or implemented on-premise, Atmosphere provides a secure, high-performing, and cost-effective cloud environment backed by professional support for a smooth user experience.
Disaster Recovery: Challenge Defined
Disaster recovery is a critical feature for cloud hosting because it safeguards an organization's most valuable assets: data and operational continuity. Data loss due to unforeseen events like natural disasters, cyberattacks, or even human error can cripple a business.
A well-designed DR plan mitigates these risks by ensuring minimal disruption to operations and rapid recovery times. This not only protects customer trust and revenue but also ensures compliance with industry regulations that often mandate data protection plans.
Atmosphere & Disaster Recovery
Leveraging the inherent security capabilities of OpenStack technologies, Atmosphere incorporates the best-in-class features to minimize disruptions to your operations. Whether you require block storage or object storage services, orchestration tools, Atmosphere offers a comprehensive solution to ensure your data remains secure throughout any potential event.
By having set up more than 300 alerts in monitoring, we have minimized the risks toward data security. Read on to explore more about how Atmosphere's disaster recovery feature works to keep your business running smoothly.
Automated Backups & Replication
Atmosphere prioritizes the security and accessibility of your data by employing a vigorous strategy that combines automated backups with geographically dispersed replication. This two-pronged approach ensures your information remains readily available for swift restoration in the face of unpredicted events.
Atmosphere automates the backup process, creating regular snapshots of your data. This ensures you always have a recent, reliable copy of your information on hand. Should a hardware malfunction, cyberattack, or other issue occur, you can quickly restore your data from these backups, minimizing downtime and data loss.
Atmosphere using Ceph
Atmosphere exploits Ceph to power both block and object storage within Atmosphere. This technology empowers you to configure data replication across geographically separate data centers. This means that copies of your data are stored in multiple locations.
Even if a single data center experiences an outage or disaster, your critical data remains securely replicated in another location. This redundancy ensures business continuity by allowing you to access your data and resume operations swiftly, irrespective of localized disruptions.
Orchestration & Failover
Atmosphere takes disaster recovery to new heights with advanced orchestration tools that automate infrastructure management. These tools empower you to codify your entire infrastructure — from compute and storage to networking — streamlining the recovery process with efficient, automated blueprints.
Think of it like having a detailed recipe for your entire IT environment. Just like a recipe ensures consistent results, orchestration tools guarantee that your infrastructure is always provisioned and configured identically. This consistency is crucial for disaster recovery, as it allows for easy replication and rapid restoration.
In the event of a disruption, pre-defined infrastructure comes into play. Automated orchestration tools swiftly activate this blueprint within a healthy data center. This automation minimizes downtime and ensures a rapid return to service continuity.
With such orchestration capabilities, Atmosphere empowers you to not only define your infrastructure as code but also automate its deployment and management, streamlining disaster recovery and maximizing business continuity.
Atmosphere using Kubernetes
Atmosphere also leverages Kubernetes, the industry-leading container orchestration platform. For Kubernetes management, Atmosphere uses Cluster API, which is an open-source feature designed by VEXXHOST. Kubernetes empowers you to build containerized applications. These applications are self-contained and portable, making them ideal for disaster recovery scenarios.
Furthermore, Kubernetes' auto-healing and rolling upgrade features further enhance application resilience, automatically restarting failed containers and deploying updates without service interruption.
Scalable Resources & Support
The cloud's scalability allows for the on-demand allocation of additional resources for recovery efforts. VEXXHOST provides professional services that can assist with architecting a reliable disaster recovery plan, including the implementation of OpenStack projects that enable these capabilities.
VEXXHOST's professional services team and comprehensive documentation provide expert guidance throughout the process. Since our team expands worldwide, we offer 24/7 support to minimize risks.
Moreover, VEXXHOST's membership in the OpenInfra Foundation grants us early access to information about upcoming open-source technology releases. This allows us to proactively prepare our Atmosphere platform and, more importantly, equip our customers with the knowledge and resources they need to seamlessly transition to new versions and minimize any potential disruptions.
To Sum Up
When discussing disaster recovery, it's important to consider not just the technological solutions but also the strategies and policies that govern data backup, system redundancy, and recovery procedures. Atmosphere's integrated OpenStack services provide the tools necessary to implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
VEXXHOST Atmosphere's Disaster Recovery feature empowers businesses with the confidence to navigate unexpected disruptions. By ensuring data protection, minimizing downtime, and facilitating rapid recovery, Atmosphere secures your operations and bolsters your competitive edge.
Ready to unlock the peace of mind and resilience that well-built disaster recovery offers?
Contact the VEXXHOST team today! Our professional team can answer your questions about Atmosphere's Disaster Recovery feature, provide a comprehensive overview of our platform, and schedule a discovery call to tailor a solution that perfectly aligns with your unique business needs.