US Signal’s Cohesity Backup is powered by Cohesity DataProtect to provide a robust and reliable enterprise data backup and recovery solution
At - A - Glance
- Fully managed backup solution maintained and monitored by the US Signal Managed Services
- Provides protection for data hosted in your US Signal cloud environment
- Agent or hypervisor-based backup operations to fit your specific use case
- Image, File, Folder, and Application-level protection
- Encryption of backup datasets during transmission and at rest
- Geographically diverse copies of backups
- Archive backup data to Object Storage for long-term retention
Technical Overview
The US Signal Cohesity Backup is a fully managed service that leverages Cohesity DataProtect to provide a data protection service that fits many use cases. All related infrastructure and backup components are managed and monitored by the US Signal professional services engineers to alleviate the daily management, troubleshooting, and the recovery of the solution.
- Source side deduplication
- Faster backups
- Reduced backup storage consumption
- Encryption of data in flight and at rest
Backup & Restoration Operations
- Every backup is a full copy utilizing changed blocks from previous backups to reduce backup windows
- Request restoration by opening a support ticket with the US Signal TOC
US Signal Services
- Agent installation and upgrades
- Create, monitor, and remediate backup jobs
- Monitoring of backup plan success and failure activity
- Restoration of images and files, folders, and application data to the source
- Managing the underlying backup infrastructure, hardware, and software
Scheduling & Rentention
Backup operations will occur during the standard nightly window of 8PM to 4AM. The backups will have a standard retention policy of 14 days, with customized retention available upon request. Backups older than 30 days will be stored in US Signal Object Storage.
Deployment Models
- FastPath connectivity to storage infrastructure
- Geographically protect workloads hosted in your US Signal cloud environment
- Hypervisor and Agent-based deployment
- Hybrid Extender for secure connectivity and granular data protection
Protect data to the following US Signal markets:
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Detroit, MI
Service Level Agreement
Storage infrastructure availability of 99.5%.
Support response of 2 hours from the time a request is received
Fastpath
An additional add-on for US Signal cloud customers to offload backup traffic from their Internet access port, by providing private network routes to management components and storage infrastructure, so the Internet port is not consumed by backup traffic.
Compliance
US Signal’s Agent-Based EBaaS solution is built using HIPAA and PCI security standards helping you achieve your compliance requirements.
- Execute a Business Associate Agreement with US Signal
- Annual audits with available reports
- Secure logging of hosted virtual infrastructure