Gastops, a leader in advanced equipment sensing and analysis products for industries like marine, aviation, oil & gas, power generation, and military applications, needed to ensure the highest levels of data protection, reliability, and compliance with rigorous industry regulations, including the Controlled Goods Program and ITAR requirements. These regulations require strict control over goods and technical data with national security significance, necessitating a disaster recovery (DR) solution that could safeguard their mission-critical data while adhering to strict compliance standards.
Tailored IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with Opti9
Gastops partnered with Opti9 [formerly HostedBizz] to assess and optimize its IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. The solution focused on ensuring data loss avoidance and reliable recovery of Gastops’ IT systems in the event of a breach or disaster. Opti9 proposed a multi-layered backup strategy involving both onsite and offsite backups to ensure complete business continuity.
Veeam Backup and Replication: A Key Part of the Disaster Recovery Solution
Opti9 deployed Veeam Backup and Replication to safeguard Gastops’ infrastructure. Full image-based backups were created onsite, and encrypted copies were then seeded to Opti9’s Canadian data center in Ottawa, Ontario. This setup ensured that Gastops’ critical data was protected both onsite and in the cloud, with the ability to recover systems in the event of a total server failure.
Compliance Simplified with Canadian Cloud Providers
Gastops required a solution that met both business and compliance needs, particularly the Controlled Goods Program. By working with HostedBizz [now , a Controlled Goods Certified vendor, Gastops was able to ensure that its data was securely stored and managed in Canada, simplifying compliance with Canadian regulations and maintaining data sovereignty.
Cloud-Based Protection and Disaster Recovery in Canada
Opti9’s cloud-based disaster recovery solution provided Gastops with the ability to completely fail over to a cloud server infrastructure during disasters, protecting against ransomware and other cyber threats. The cloud infrastructure also offered a sandbox for testing and updating applications in a secure, non-production environment.
Key Benefits:
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Fully Managed Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) using Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam Cloud Connect.
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Complete Canadian Data Sovereignty with data stored in Canadian-owned data centers for compliance.
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3-2-1 Backup Policies ensuring best practices in data protection.
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Full disaster recovery capabilities to mitigate against cyber-attacks and data breaches.
Grant Blanchard, CFO of Gastops, commented, “HostedBizz [now Opti9] was able to engineer a system to provide a full DR solution and ensure that our data always remains encrypted. We now have peace of mind that our critical data is protected and can be restored in the event of any disaster.”