“When we asked why these systems were still running, the answer was immediate and automatic: just in case.”
From Resonance & Randomness, Chapter 4, “Reclaiming Trapped Capital” · Read the book →
Octo8 | Disaster Recovery & Backup
Resilient systems,
engineered for value
Failover and backup systems that keep your operations running.
Secure disaster recovery and backup on HPE and NetApp, by subscription, sized to your business priorities rather than duplicating production. No secondary data center to build.
Start a conversationBuilt for organizations managing
Data that is hard to lose and hard to replace
If your organization holds any of these, it is a candidate, whatever the industry.
Maps
GIS and geospatial data
Asset, parcel, land, and network maps that must come back in the right order, with the services that depend on them.
Disaster Recovery →Video
Operational video and digital archives
Large, growing archives that must be kept for set periods and retrieved on request, at a sensible cost.
Backup & Retention →Records
Sensitive and regulated data
Data that must stay within defined boundaries and be protected under the rules that apply to it.
Sovereign Infrastructure →Right-sized, not duplicated
Protection built just in case costs more and protects less
Most organizations protect their systems by accumulation: another copy, another backup, another archive. Octo8 designs recovery environments around business priorities, recovery objectives, and operational requirements instead.
Recovery
Missing, or a copy of everything
Disaster recovery is either postponed because a second data center costs too much, or built as a full replica that sits mostly idle.
Backup
Sharing production’s weaknesses
Backups on the same platform and under the same administration as production can be reached by the same failure or attack.
Storage
Kept without a reason
Data is retained indefinitely, with no rule for what to keep or how quickly it must be found.
The approach
The 4R Framework and value engineering
We start from what the business cannot run without, then size protection to it. Every design is approved by you and proven by test.
Phase 01
Rationalize
Identify the services the organization cannot run without, and map what they depend on.
Phase 02
Recover
Define the minimum viable business. Set recovery and retention targets for each tier. You approve them.
Phase 03
Repurpose
Redirect spend from just-in-case capacity to protection sized to need.
Phase 04
Realize Value
Prove it with recovery tests, and right-size it at every review and renewal.
The analysis runs on justëra, our value engineering tool.
Offerings
Three ways we protect what matters
Each offering follows the same method. Most engagements start with disaster recovery.
Lead offering
Disaster Recovery
Recovery sized to the minimum viable business. Critical services stand by; everything else is protected and restored in order.
Disaster Recovery →Offering
Backup & Retention
Protected copies designed to stand apart from production, retained for a reason, and retrievable when needed.
Backup & Retention →Offering
Sovereign Infrastructure
A full private cloud recovery site, with compute, platform, and storage, for systems and data that must stay within boundaries you define.
Sovereign Infrastructure →Delivered on
HPE Private Cloud and NetApp
Octo8 designs and stewards. Our technology partners deliver, operate, and support the infrastructure under their own service commitments.
HPE Private Cloud
Runs the services that must keep running, on private infrastructure sited in a colocation facility or a location you choose.
HPE or NetApp storage
Holds the protected copies. Choose HPE storage or NetApp, based on what you already run and prefer.
Octo8
Designs the environment, sizes the subscriptions, runs the tests, and right-sizes at every renewal. No infrastructure on our books.
Begin
Start with what your organization cannot lose
A first conversation covers what you run today, how it is protected, and what a right-sized design would look like.
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