A wide range of services is cloud services that are generally delivered to the companies and customers on their demand through the internet. As cloud services are designed to provide affordable and easy application and access and resources instead of any requirement for hardware or infrastructure, STC BaaS is specifically designed to give Cloud and on-premise customers to avail of secure and reliable backup or recovery without the need for any complexity and costs based on designing, purchasing the backup solution or supporting the respective systems and processes. In every business, from checking mail to sharing the documents, everyone uses cloud services!
As you know, data availability and security are significant to meet the objectives of a business as the customers need faster and more cost-effective solutions to manage and protect their data and infrastructure; herein, STC BaaS differentiates itself against the other cloud service providers as it covers Windows, Linux and MAC Systems.
STC BaaS and Disasters
As you might be aware of that different customers have different application backups but do every backup sustain after any mishap or disaster? Generally, big financial organizations have their own in-house backups but are they also disaster-proof? Well, the answer is NO! So, what can they do in such a situation; you must be thinking they should find a secure and reliable platform, Isn’t it? Here, STC BaaS simplifies the customer hurdles and offers local-level data storage, secured platforms; MPLS/IPSEC and internet connectivity options for the backup on STC Cloud, STC BaaS platform secures the best service to overcome any disaster or mishap.
STC BaaS Use Cases
- Public Cloud Customers.
Any organization using public cloud platform wants to secure its data locally in Saudi Arabia, the STC BaaS Platform is the best option. It is also a cost-effective for SME customers.
2. STC Private cloud customers.
STC Private Cloud customers can utilized STC BaaS platform which is a scalable solutions to let you pay only for what you use. There is no need to provision storage in advance and there are no minimum commitments or up-front fees
3. On-premises customers
STC makes it easy for the On-Premise customers to get their backups off site to a Backup as a Service (BaaS) on STC BaaS Platform which is secure, cost effective and simple to backup and restore.
Why 3-2-1 cloud backup rule is important ?
The 3-2-1 backup rule means that you should have at least three total copies of your data, two of which are local but on different media(Storage/Tape), and at least one copy off-site.
3 Copies: Along with your primary data, STC BaaS creates at least two additional backups. Obviously, the more copies of the data you have, the less risk of losing everything you have.
2 Media: The rationale behind different media is protection against different types of failure. The storage of data on different storage types can reduce the risk of loss/corruption of data and gives a higher level of protection by cyber attacks. Also, hard drives in a computer may fail if the computer is bounced too much during use, but solid-state drives such as SD cards or USB flash drives can be slightly jerked.
1 Offsite: STC BaaS’ Tier 2 storages creates at least one copy of data stored in a different geographical location – an offsite backup, or you can say remote data center. If your local backups are corrupted, stolen, or destroyed, offsite backup protects you.
This is how STC BaaS provides its customers to have the industry best practices for disaster recovery irrespective of the size of the organization and customer base.
Why should one use STC BaaS when there are so many cloud services available?
- Important Data residing locally in Saudi Arabia in secure platform
- Encryption of backup data before leaving the premises..
- High security and protection from ransomware.
- Follow all the data governance rules and policies.
- Secured platforms: MPLS/IPSEC provides connectivity
- The local presence also enables fewer RTOs for huge backups.
- Hybrid, Public, Private Delivery modes are available.
- 24 x 7 x 365 predictive and monitoring analysis.
- A dedicated BaaS Self-Service Portal for Customer use.
- Short deployment time, recovery time, and operations costs.
- Can protect physical machines like Windows, Linux & MAC, Applications, VMs, and data saved in files.
Features of STC BaaS
“Any app, any data, any cloud.”
Anyone can keep their data, no matter what platforms they are using. Apart from this, there are several unique features:
- Windows, Linux and MAC System Backup.
- System State Backup and Bare Metal Recovery.
- Application Integrated Backup.
- Data encryption.
- Self-service web Portals
- On-demand restore.
- On-demand backup
- Granular Recovery
- Application Level Recovery
- A single software for backup, archive, search, compliance, and mobility.
- It was stored with a copy for a single task and backup and a single copy for the archiving process—the maximum level of integration and storage capacity reduction.
- Single Backup Job for Entire System Backup including application-aware processing.
- Desktop security with flexibility for end-user access to restore through self-service portal or backup agent. Using any desktop, portal, and mobile safely.
- Source and target reductions without any specific hardware equipment.
- Hardware lock-in free, the solution must support any type of hardware.
- Audit, backup for legal hold purposes, archive, and search on desktop and compliance.
- Ability to manage snapshots with application-aware to make snapshot/clone application-aware without admin attempts on scripting.
Conclusion
STC BaaS is well-recommended in the creation of any data protection system – a way to protect your data from loss/corruption and control risks in all of the above situations in Saudi Arabia.
For More information you can visit https://cloud.stc.com.sa/