Windstream Holdings: Faster and Better Recovery with Multiple Replication Options

Windstream offers a slew of feature-rich and industry-specific business continuity services. This include hosted Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), managed storage and security, virtual or hosted PBX (private branch exchange) and managed remote backup to empower organizations with increased operational efficiency and superior customer service. The company provides robust, enterprise-class cloud solutions including public, private, hybrid cloud and cloud storage options. This dramatically improves the efficiency and availability of IT resources, applications, and data in organizations, leveraging the flexibility, scalability, elasticity, and cost-savings of the cloud. “We create a transparent, achievable cloud deployment roadmap based on client’s unique services and applications,” states Thomas.

Apart from the highest quality of services, the company operates across diverse industry verticals to address the disaster recovery challenges. Windstream provides leading-edge data, voice, Internet, network, and cloud solutions for education, government, financial services, healthcare, retail and hospitality. To illustrate, Windstream’s customizable telehealth solutions allow healthcare providers to more effectively share critical data, safeguard patient privacy, increase operational efficiency, and improve clinical health outcomes—ultimately providing a higher quality of patient-centric care.

Managed Remote Backup from Windstream Hosted Solutions delivers cost effective data protection and don’t require complicated set up or support. “Windstream’s Managed Remote Backup has no ‘back door’ decryption keys. Once encryption password and settings are established, no one else can access or decrypt backup data. Not even us who manage data at an offsite vault. In information security circles, this is known as a “trust no one” security paradigm,” explains Thomas.

Data is hosted in Windstream’s SSAE 16 (Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements); payment card industry compliant enterprise Data centers with 100 percent infrastructure availability service level agreements. Systems-based SSAE 16 addresses service organizations and comprises guidelines and principles for trusted data security, confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy controls. “In addition, we have employed a powerful, security model based on EVault’s—a hybrid data backup and recovery solutions provider—cloud-connected backup and recovery, which reliably guards against data loss,” concludes Thomas.