5 Reasons Datrium helps CIOs during an Economic Downturn

CIOs are advised to have plans in place in advance of a time of economic uncertainty or a possible downturn. However, IT organizations do not always have stable budgets to operate in a business-as-usual-mode, and in many cases, headcount reduction or deferral of IT projects is a reality.

In light of the current economic scenario, I decided to highlight some of the Datrium technology attributes that can pave the way for IT organizations and CIOs to have a smoother ride during such a turbulent period.

DR-as-a-Service (Pay-as-you-Go) with VMware Cloud (Pay-when-you-Need)

IT organizations commonly have sunken costs with idle DR sites that may or may never be used. Datrium DRaaS enables IT organizations to perform failproof orchestrated DR using VMware Cloud on AWS.

DRaaS is a comprehensive set of cloud services for the protection of on-premises data centers. It encompasses backup, orchestration, DR, as well as the VMware Cloud on AWS resources; all bundled in an easy to consume pay-as-you-go and pay-when-you-need SaaS service.

DRaaS dramatically reduces IT costs, keeps data safe and secure, and delivers enterprise-grade failover and failback for any VMware environment running on any storage solution (SAN, NAS, HCI).

This solution effectively enables IT organizations to implement alternative DR strategies or even eliminate physical DR sites that may have high associated costs.

Pay-as-you-Go Licensing

Purchase Datrium host licenses only when you need to grow your IT environment, without incurring upfront costs. The system can grow from a single to 128 hosts in a single scalable solution. Those host licenses (no CPU socket or RAM-based) can be transferred between server hardware. Licenses can also be repurposed for cloud services, making the ROI for on-premise deployments surprisingly interesting.

Built-in backup for Free

To deliver Disaster Recovery as a service, Datrium implemented the full extent backup services to provide industrial-strength low RPO and low RTO recovery. The solution provides IT organizations with a unified system with primary storage, backup, and disaster recovery to avoid the cost of separate systems. However, different systems can also be leveraged if they are already in place.

Use your Existing Servers

100% software-defined solution that is compatible with any server and network from leading vendors. Datrium does not impose hardware limitations, and new and existing servers, rack or blades, can be used as part of an on-premise deployment (DRaaS can also be delivered without on-prem hardware systems).

This approach directly benefits the ROI and TCO of the solution, solving a common problem existent with HCI type solutions that continuously require new servers.

Being able to leverage existing investments in the data center to deliver new services is an excellent way to optimize budgets and resources.

IT Management and People

People are the most valuable asset any organization will ever have. Instead of letting people go, CIOs must strive to repurpose their people to run new and more critical tasks in such harsh economic times.

Datrium is completely VMware and VM-centric: every time, in every place. All operations are at the VM granularity: snapshots, backups, clones, replication, recovery, orchestration.

That means that IT staff doesn't have anything new to learn in terms of management, and upon deployment, they can quickly focus on more pressing business aspects.

These are just some of the attributes CIOs have been discussing with Datrium. Either way, I hope this time shall pass quickly and that the world economy goes back to growth mode and that we can curb this virus pandemic as soon as possible. Please, Stay Safe!

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net