BaaS (Backup as a Service)

As part of BaaS, we provide clients with a part of the object storage placed on fault-tolerant Colobridge platform. We provide storage of the working version of data in a certified data centre in Germany, and, in order to obtain maximum disaster resistance (optionally at the client’s request) in two data centres that are located at a distance from geographical viewpoint.

The speed significantly depends on the total volume of backup copies and the width of the data transmission channels on the side of the provider and the client. An average virtual machine/server of 200 GB with a width of 1 GB is backed up/restored in about 1 hour (full backup). The speed may be lower because of high load on server resources (CPU, disk drives, network resources) on the client’s side, as well as because of the geographical location where backups are stored: restoring in Germany will be faster compared to a situation if the client’s IT infrastructure were deployed in another country.

BaaS for creating IT backups by German provider Colobridge is primarily aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. These are companies that have outgrown elemental storage services, but because of technical or financial limitations cannot afford Enterprise-level solutions, and also do not have IT specialists who have the required competencies. At the same time, they need tools to ensure business continuity and protect from the loss of important data.

When configuring the backup parameters via a convenient interface, you can specify how frequently you want backups to be created in the cloud and how long you want for them to be stored. We recommend you to make a well-informed and reasonable choice: you need an optimized solution that will ensure appropriate disaster resistance and at the same time will meet the budget. The more copies are created during a fixed time, the longer each archived copy is kept, and the more space in the repository you will need.

The price for BaaS on Colobridge platform is calculated individually — according to a flexible tariff formed depending on the number of Hyper-V/VMware virtual machines, space in the backup copy storage and whether there is a Veeam license. If you have a license that you bought earlier, you can use it on Colobridge platform.

Cloud backup provides a high level of security by allowing you to create and store multiple backup copies of your data if the working copy is deleted or damaged. Even if the main facility is completely lost, you will be able to resume operations, but only after deploying new IT infrastructure. If you want to receive a comprehensive service to have IT infrastructure restored reliably at a backup facility if an accident happens in the main data facility, we recommend using our DRaaS. If the main facility is lost, workloads can be quickly transferred to the cloud and users will continue to work with IT services and applications as usual. Colobridge’s DRaaS platform combines BaaS with multi-tier backup tools and IT recovery tools in the cloud.