Frequently Asked Questions

LEAN’s VDC is a cloud-based infrastructure service that allows businesses to set up a data center in a matter of minutes. It offers a range of features, including compute power, storage, and advanced networking & security options.

The VDC service offers several advantages, such as reduced total cost of ownership, time-saving on infrastructure implementation, and access to the latest VMware products and services. It also eliminates the need for costly hardware investments and long-term financial commitments.

The VDC consists of a dedicated pool of virtualized hardware resources, including compute (vCPU and vRAM), storage (with multiple resilience level policies), and networking & security features. You have granular control over each virtual machine, its operating system, performance, network connectivity, and security features.

LEAN’s VDC provides complex, multi-tier virtual networks in seconds. It offers enhanced security features not available with physical equipment, such as micro-segmenting. You can deploy different types of Network and security routers in your virtual network, including Edge Services Router (ESR) and Distributed Logical Router (DLR).

The VDC comes with a user management portal that allows you to allocate resources, create VMs, manage users and their rights, and handle various network and security settings. You can also access utilization metrics and operational alerts.

The VDC service offers visibility into your IT environment and workloads, allowing you to identify areas for more efficient operation and potential cost savings. You will receive a customized report with in-depth technical analysis providing performance insights and resource requirements.

You can get a free assessment for your specific needs by contacting LEAN.

LEAN also offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Backup as a Service (BaaS), which can complement the VDC service for a comprehensive IT solution.

LEAN’s DRaaS is a comprehensive solution designed to ensure business continuity and rapid recovery in the event of a disaster. It offers real-time replication of your running workloads and applications, whether they are on-premise, on-cloud, or at an offsite location.

The service offers simple deployment and maintenance, built-in encryption, no upfront capital investment, and guarantees rapid recovery.

With your critical workloads replicated to any of LEAN Services’ private data centers in Kuwait, you can be assured that your data remains under your jurisdiction.

LEAN’s DRaaS utilizes VMware tools for workloads that require real-time replication between your on-premise VMware environment and the LEAN Services cloud.

You can set up and validate your Disaster Recovery in minutes and even perform seamless tests for failover and failback scenarios without interrupting your existing operations.

RPOs are the targeted duration of time within which data must be restored after a disaster. LEAN’s DRaaS allows you to achieve your RPOs with high confidence and even pre-define your recovery points for added security and manageability.

DRaaS powered by COHESITY provides advanced, snapshot-based VM replication, reliable off-site protection, and business continuity with instant mass recovery in case of a catastrophic event.

Yes, LEAN’s DRaaS allows you to easily replicate data to an alternate location for other purposes like dev/test or analytics.

LEAN’s DRaaS eliminates the need for upfront capital investment and offers a pay-as-you-grow model, making it a cost-effective solution for businesses of all sizes.

You can Get a free assessment by contacting us through the form on our website.

LEAN’s BaaS is designed to protect your virtual machines, bare metal servers, enterprise applications, databases, and primary storage systems. It offers a comprehensive backup solution that ensures rapid recovery and data protection.

LEAN’s BaaS offers features like ransomware protection, fast and flexible recovery with instant mass restore, reduced storage footprint, non-disruptive storage upgrades, and immutable protection layers.

Our BaaS solution boasts built-in anti-ransomware capabilities that include immutable snapshots, multifactor authentication, data encryption in flight and at rest and granular role-based access.

Powered by Cohesity, LEAN’s BaaS provides a single solution for consolidating backup and target storage, which seamlessly synchronizes with storage media. It also offers a simple management interface for deployment, management, and recovery.

The Fast Global Search feature allows for a unique global actionable search across all workloads and locations from a single user interface, facilitating file-level recovery.

LEAN’s BaaS offers reduced total cost of ownership through features like data deduplication and compression, which free up storage capacity and maximize storage efficiency.

Data Isolation is a feature that adds an additional layer of protection against ransomware attacks by isolating your data through a simple policy-based automated air gap.

LEAN’s BaaS includes built-in security encryption for data backups, ensuring that your data is securely protected.

Immutable Backups prevent external systems from targeting your backups, adding an extra layer of protection through features like DataLock (WORM) and RBAC.

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LEAN’s Cloud Managed Services provide 24/7/365 management of your cloud platform, taking the burden of IT infrastructure management off your shoulders. This allows your IT staff to focus on tasks that help your organization grow.

LEAN will configure, manage, and monitor the compute and network resources. This includes provisioning your VMs, configuring VM storage, and managing routing, firewalls, and load balancers.

This service includes configuring, monitoring, and performing required restoration tasks according to your data retention policy. It also involves monitoring all backup processes and performing granular file recovery as needed.

LEAN will configure, test, and monitor the replication processes, manage the protection status of each VM, and handle the failover and failback procedures. Scheduled DR tests are also conducted.

LEAN identifies, troubleshoots, and restores normal operational functionality if an incident is detected or reported. A root cause analysis is conducted post-incident, and further preventative measures are recommended.

LEAN’s Service Management Center (SMC) staff is responsible for managing all incidents until normal operations are restored.

LEAN provides visibility into your IT environment and workloads, identifying areas for more efficient operation and potential cost savings. You will receive a customized report with in-depth technical analysis.

LEAN’s Cloud Managed Services free up your IT staff to focus on growth-centric tasks by taking care of the time-consuming aspects of IT infrastructure management.

LEAN employs stringent security measures, including firewalls, data encryption, and regular monitoring, to ensure the safety and integrity of your cloud platform.

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