nScaled Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) by Acronis

A:We provide (3) basic things: online backup, disaster recovery and data storage / archiving. The main benefits of our solutions are industry-leading recovery times, start-of-the-art security, intuitive and web-based administration and management controls, automated and non-invasive testing and systems monitoring, and 27×7 customer care.

A: nScaled is headquartered in San Francisco, CA (USA) with a sister office in London (UK). Our data centers are distributed between Dallas, TX and Ashburn, VA (USA), and London / Heathrow (UK).

A: nScaled is financed by Almaz Capital, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and Band of Angels.

A: The LCA, or Local Cloud Appliance, is the hardware installed into your LAN or existing data center.

A: Backups can be performed manually via the Admin (Recovery) Console or automated via the File Recovery backup widget.

A: We recommend that you do not create share-level backups larger than 2TB.

A: CloudHub is an ESX virtual machine that runs nScaled software that powers the File Recovery service.

A: The File Recovery service only supports the CIFS protocol, not NFS.

A: We refer to our default architecture as “hybrid” in that it typically involves leveraging both on-premises and off-site (remote) server-based cloud systems, providing the scalability and flexibility that public clouds are known for but also the security and stability that is normally only available via private cloud setups (at comparatively much higher cost).

The only exceptions where our platform isn’t “hybrid” are cases wherein we provide components of fully private configurations, which we are able to offer contingent on certain client-side components being in place.

None of our service components or technologies are offered to the general public or on a free or pay-per-use basis, also none of our infrastructure is “community”, i.e. nothing about our platform is shared with any other organizations.

We suggest reading this white paper: Hybrid Cloud for the Enterprise

We help firms protect data and business applications with backup and disaster recovery solutions that deliver 15 minute recovery times and ensure compliance with government regulations, including Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach Bliley and others. In applying customized configurations we regularly work closely with new clients to map point-by-point how our platform maps to compliance with regulations like HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001:2005, ISO9001:2008, PCI_DSS and more.

Please contact us to discuss your specific business and technology needs.

There are many reasons to choose us over other vendors who claim to offer comprehensive online backup, disaster recovery and data storage solutions.

At the products level, our admin console provides a level of administrative visibility, control and transparency that is one-of-a-kind. With nScaled you know your company is protected because you can see it working, moreover you’re always in hands-on control. Also, we support both full disaster recovery system build-outs (complete data infrastructure virtualization) and entry-level approaches focused on file recovery to start.

Additionally, our platform was born in the cloud, specifically for business continuity services and originally for the Legal space — protecting some of the most sensitive data imaginable. We’re not an older-school hardware company expanding into the cloud, nor are we a public cloud offering built originally for a different primary function (e.g. file sharing or cheap storage) with DR subsequently attempted as an add-on.

What’s more, our SLAs are the strongest in the business. For example, other vendors may limit their accountabilities to cases where your data resides across most or all of their sites.

Please contact us to learn more about what sets nScaled apart.