replicate to the target site. After data has been transferred to the target core, the newly replicatedincremental recovery points automatically synchronize.Recovery-as-a-Service (RaaS)Managed service providers (MSPs) can fully leverage the appliance as a platform for delivering recovery asa service (RaaS). RaaS facilitates complete recovery-in-the-cloud by replicating customers' physical andvirtual servers along with their data to the service provider's cloud as virtual machines to support recoverytesting or actual recovery operations. Customers wanting to perform recovery-in-the-cloud canconfigure replication on their protected machines on the local cores to an AppAssure service provider. Inthe event of a disaster, the MSPs can instantly spin-up virtual machines for the customer.MSPs can deploy multi-tenant AppAssure RaaS infrastructure that can host multiple and discreteorganizations or business units (the tenants) that ordinarily do not share security or data on a single serveror a group of servers. The data of each tenant is isolated and secure from other tenants and the serviceprovider.Retention and archivingIn your appliance, backup and retention policies are flexible and, therefore, easily configurable. The abilityto tailor retention polices to the needs of an organization not only helps to meet compliancerequirements, but does so without compromising on RTO.Retention policies enforce the periods of time in which backups are stored on short-term (fast andexpensive) media. Sometimes certain business and technical requirements mandate extended retentionof these backups, but use of fast storage is cost prohibitive. Therefore, this requirement creates a needfor long-term (slow and cheap) storage. Businesses often use long-term storage for archiving bothcompliance and non-compliance data. The archive feature supports extended retentions for complianceand non-compliance data, it can also be used for seeding replication data to a target core.Figure 6. Custom retention policyIn your appliance, retention policies can be customized to specify the length of time a backup recoverypoint is maintained. As the age of the recovery points approaches the end of their retention period, therecovery points age out and are removed from the retention pool. Typically, this process becomesinefficient and eventually fails as the amount of data and the period of retention start grows rapidly. Your19
