Cisco DR for Single Appliance Subscription
This Cisco subscription provides disaster recovery capabilities for a single appliance, ensuring your critical business operations can resume quickly after an outage.
- Subscription Term: Access to disaster recovery features for the duration of your subscription term.
- Single Appliance Focus: Designed to protect the availability of one specific network appliance.
- Business Continuity: Minimizes downtime and data loss, maintaining operational efficiency.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet regulatory requirements for data availability and disaster recovery planning.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Cisco DR for Single Appliance Subscription (SP-INF-DRAP-SB2) is a software license that unlocks disaster recovery features for a designated Cisco appliance. This subscription ensures that your critical business functions remain accessible even in the event of a hardware failure or site disruption.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market organizations who need to safeguard specific, vital network devices. It integrates into existing Cisco environments, providing a crucial layer of resilience without the complexity of enterprise-wide disaster recovery solutions.
- Disaster Recovery Enablement: Activates specific DR functionalities on a supported Cisco appliance.
- Subscription-Based Access: Provides ongoing access to features and potential software updates for the licensed term.
- Single Unit Protection: Tailored to provide DR capabilities for one critical hardware component.
- Operational Resilience: Reduces the impact of outages by facilitating faster recovery times.
- Simplified DR Strategy: Offers a focused approach to DR for essential single points of failure.
This Cisco subscription offers a focused and cost-effective way for SMB and mid-market teams to enhance the resilience of their critical network infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Critical Appliance Failover
Enable teams to maintain business operations by quickly failing over to a secondary state or system when the primary appliance experiences an outage. This ensures that essential services remain accessible to users and customers.
organizations with single points of failure, businesses requiring high availability, IT teams managing essential network services, environments with limited IT staff
Streamline Disaster Recovery Planning
Streamline the process of implementing disaster recovery for key network components. This subscription simplifies the activation of DR features on a specific appliance, reducing the complexity of DR strategy development.
businesses with compliance mandates, companies seeking focused DR solutions, IT departments with budget constraints, organizations standardizing on Cisco hardware
Automate Recovery Processes
Automate the activation and management of disaster recovery functions for a single appliance. This reduces manual intervention during critical recovery events, minimizing human error and accelerating restoration times.
environments prioritizing rapid RTO, teams seeking to reduce operational burden, businesses with remote or distributed IT operations, networks with critical data processing functions
Key Features
Subscription-based licensing
Provides access to disaster recovery features for a defined term, offering predictable costs and ongoing entitlement.
Single appliance focus
Tailors disaster recovery protection to a specific, critical piece of hardware, optimizing investment for essential functions.
Disaster Recovery enablement
Unlocks specific software functionalities designed to facilitate rapid recovery and minimize data loss in the event of an outage.
Cisco platform integration
Ensures compatibility and seamless integration with supported Cisco hardware within your existing network.
Business continuity support
Helps maintain essential business operations by reducing downtime and ensuring service availability.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require continuous availability and robust disaster recovery to meet strict regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust. This subscription helps protect critical transaction processing appliances.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must ensure uninterrupted access to patient data and critical systems to comply with HIPAA and provide timely care. Protecting essential network appliances is vital for operational continuity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations rely on uptime for production lines and control systems. This subscription can safeguard key appliances that manage critical manufacturing processes, preventing costly disruptions.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle sensitive client data and require high availability for case management and communication systems. Protecting critical appliances ensures client service continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does 'DR' stand for in this product title?
DR stands for Disaster Recovery. This subscription enables disaster recovery capabilities for a single Cisco appliance.
What type of Cisco appliance does this license apply to?
The specific appliance compatibility is determined by Cisco's licensing and hardware support policies for this subscription. It is designed for a single, designated appliance within your network.
What is the billing model for this subscription?
This is a subscription-based billing model, meaning you pay for access to the disaster recovery features over a defined period, typically annually or multi-year.
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.