Cisco Cloud Storage Offsite Backup
Cisco Cloud Storage Offsite Backup provides secure, subscription-based offsite data protection for your critical business information, ensuring rapid recovery and compliance.
- Data Security: Protection against data loss from hardware failure, cyberattacks, or natural disasters.
- Business Continuity: Rapid recovery of critical files and systems to minimize downtime and operational impact.
- Compliance Assurance: Meets regulatory requirements for data retention and disaster recovery planning.
- Cost Efficiency: Predictable subscription billing eliminates large upfront hardware investments.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Cisco Cloud Storage Offsite Backup is a platform software subscription that enables secure, offsite storage of your business data. It provides a critical layer of protection against data loss, ensuring that your essential files and systems can be recovered quickly in the event of an incident.
Designed for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations, this service integrates into your existing IT environment. It serves as a vital component of your disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, safeguarding against unforeseen events that could disrupt operations.
- Secure Offsite Storage: Encrypted storage of backups in a secure, remote location.
- Automated Backups: Schedule regular, automated backups to ensure data is always current.
- Fast Data Recovery: Quickly restore individual files, folders, or entire systems.
- Subscription Licensing: Predictable, recurring costs for ongoing service access.
- Platform Agnostic: Integrates with various data sources and operating systems.
This Cisco solution offers SMB and mid-market teams a reliable and cost-effective way to protect their data and ensure operational resilience.
What This Enables
Enable Continuous Data Protection
Enable teams to maintain up-to-date, offsite copies of critical business data. Streamline recovery processes by having readily accessible backups in a secure remote location.
cloud-first environments, hybrid cloud deployments, distributed workforces, data-intensive operations
Meet Regulatory Compliance Requirements
Automate adherence to data retention and disaster recovery mandates for industries with strict compliance standards. Ensure business continuity by safeguarding against data loss events.
regulated industries, audit-sensitive businesses, geographically dispersed organizations, data privacy-focused companies
Minimize Downtime Risk
Support business continuity by enabling swift restoration of essential systems and data. Protect against operational disruptions caused by hardware failures, ransomware, or natural disasters.
mission-critical operations, businesses with strict uptime SLAs, organizations reliant on continuous data access, IT infrastructure management
Key Features
Subscription-based licensing
Provides predictable operational expenses and eliminates large upfront capital investments for backup infrastructure.
Secure, encrypted offsite storage
Protects sensitive business data from unauthorized access and ensures compliance with data privacy regulations.
Automated backup scheduling
Ensures consistent data protection without manual intervention, reducing the risk of human error and missed backups.
Rapid data recovery capabilities
Minimizes business downtime by allowing quick restoration of files, applications, or entire systems when needed.
Scalable cloud storage
Accommodates growing data volumes, allowing businesses to expand their backup capacity as their needs evolve.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and disaster recovery solutions to meet stringent regulatory compliance like SEC Rule 17a-4 and FINRA regulations, ensuring data availability and integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must comply with HIPAA regulations, which mandate secure data backup and disaster recovery plans to protect patient health information (PHI) and ensure continuity of care.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and must maintain strict confidentiality and data availability to meet professional obligations and client trust.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers rely on continuous operation and need to protect critical production data, intellectual property, and operational systems from disruption to avoid costly downtime.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is offsite backup?
Offsite backup is a strategy where copies of your data are stored in a physically separate location from your primary business site. This protects your data from local disasters like fires, floods, or theft.
How does Cisco Cloud Storage Offsite Backup ensure data security?
Data is encrypted both in transit to the cloud and while at rest in the offsite storage facility. Access controls and security protocols are in place to protect your information.
Can I recover individual files or my entire system?
Yes, the service is designed to allow for granular recovery of individual files or folders, as well as the restoration of entire systems or servers, depending on your configuration and needs.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.