Assure: the quick fix to your network nightmare

Imagine: a cyberattack has brought your systems down. Your IT team has worked tirelessly to restore your applications and user data to get your systems back online. But no one can access any of it – not until you restore your network.

Authored by Ali McKeand CTO Office – Chief Technologist, InnovationAli McKeand Headshot 2

 

Or think of another scenario: you’ve somehow hit the wrong button and managed to delete your live production environment. How long before you get your organisation back in business?

If you aren’t backing up your cloud networking operational data, you could be facing your network nightmare.

It can happen to even the largest organisations in some of the most highly regulated industries. In April 2018, the TSB bank updated its IT systems and migrated its corporate and customer services onto a new IT platform. While the data migrated successfully, the platform immediately experienced technical failures. More than five million customers were affected.

As well as the reputational and regulatory damage, TSB paid £32.7 million in redress to customers. It took until December 2018 for the bank to return to business as usual. Without the ability to quickly restore the platform, the bank’s recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) were sunk.

And now the good news...

With CAE’s Assure solution, there’s a quick fix to end your nightmare, and you won’t get it anywhere else. Assure protects and rapidly restores Cisco Networking Cloud configuration in various data loss scenarios. With a quick call to our support team, your data can be restored in minutes rather than days or months. Business continuity is maintained, and operations keep running smoothly.

Assure is an important element of CAE’s comprehensive solution blueprint that addresses the diverse requirements of branch and campus networks. Our framework of solutions leverages our unique intellectual property, CAE Labs.

CAE has always encouraged technical innovation, and CAE Labs software development practice is a milestone in our 30 plus year journey. Through CAE Labs, you have access to our creative business and technical enhancements to security, networking, data centre, workplace and cloud solutions.

Assure delivers:

  • Increased uptime and reduced business restoration downtime, from days and weeks to hours and minutes
  • Eliminating operational disruption, financial losses, and reputational damages
  • Secure capture of all operational changes - backup when they happen, in real time
  • Bi-annual business resilience sandbox testing, so you can establish a restoration process with your IT team
  • Mitigation of future outages, and even prevent them from ever occurring through ongoing service intelligence and additional risk removal
  • 24/7 access to UK-based expert support as and when needed

With Assure, you are assured of the best possible recovery time in any data loss scenario.

For example, a leading UK retailer rebuild would have taken around 90 minutes to restore per location. Using Assure, this can now be achieved in under one minute per location, resulting in the best recovery time for their business and significantly reducing disruption.

By minimising service restoration downtime, if the worst happens you can significantly reduce potential losses to your business, whether in customer retention, revenue, share value, compliance, or reputation.