Data That’s Safe and Accessible
Safe, accessible data? No, that’s not an oxymoron. RapidScale’s Backup as a Service (BaaS), together with our security services, cloud platform and expertise of our technology partners, helps make data both safe and available anytime, anywhere.
Agility
Move data between similar or dissimilar storage systems easily, whether on-premises, colocated or to a new data center.
Managed Off-Site Infrastructure
Keep data safe, accessible and backed up, managing the process as you like. Server-side encryption adds security for data at rest.
Pay-as-You-Go Pricing
One of the greatest economic advantages of the cloud. Pay only for the compute, storage and infrastructure actually used.
Smart Use of Internal Resources
Reduce hours spent on operations and maintenance. Increase resource allocation around process efficiencies or app development.
Why Backup?
Data is lost at an alarming rate today. The top reasons we lose data are:
- Human error (deleting files accidentally)
- Malicious intent (viruses or malware)
- Poorly maintained infrastructure
- Power surge or outage
- Local hardware theft
- Liquid damage (coffee)
- Catastrophic
Cloud-Based Data Backup and Storage Features
Never miss a scheduled backup, exceed storage capacity or hinder application performance and end-user experience. In addition to automated backup and replication technologies, RapidScale technical support is available anytime to assist or modify backup services.
Backup Schedule – Automate backups to run when least disruptive and at best frequency.
Real-Time Backup – Backup everything automatically. This runs as Windows® Service and tracks folders for new or changed files and backs them up immediately.
Local Backup – Set up local backup if you want to send only a subset of your data to the cloud and keep the rest on your local backup storage.
Block-Level Backup – Back up only changed parts of the file. Our offering detects these parts and automatically uploads them to the remote storage.
- Compression – Reduce the size of your backups to save time and money spent on storage. Our Backup as a Service (BaaS) compresses data prior to transfer.
- Intelligent Bandwidth Scheduler – Control bandwidth throttling in real-time to set, for instance, the backup to consume all available bandwidth during off hours and on weekends while consuming only 10% of bandwidth during working hours.
- Encryption – Protect your data from unauthorized access by choosing an encryption algorithm and setting a unique encryption key. Our service encrypts all your data before uploading it to storage.
- Customized Retention – Enable automated deletion of outdated data from your storage. Specify number of versions to keep for each file. Purge file versions older than specified file age. Specify for how long keep files that were deleted locally.
BaaS Services Options
RapidScale’s Backup as a Service (BaaS) provides several turnkey solutions to help protect your mission-critical data.
Solution | Backup Licensing Provider | Use Case | Backup Management |
Cloud Backup Repository | Customer | You maintain your own local backups. RapidScale copies your local backup to our cloud. | Customer |
Co-Managed Backup | RapidScale | RapidScale helps you configure and manage local backups. RapidScale copies your local backup to our cloud. | Customer and RapidScale |
Hosted Backup | RapidScale | RapidScale completely manages the backup of your hosted IaaS. All backup data is stored in the RapidScale cloud. | RapidScale |
Cloud-Based Backups Made Easy
Learn more about the technologies involved and the business advantages of RapidScale’s BaaS offering.
