MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity. In today’s environment, you cannot just go out and buy capacity. Sorting out such problems can take hours if not days, an expensive proposition if the issue is prolonging an outage.

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Vulnerability Outage Capacity BCM 85

Solutions Review

MARCH 1, 2022

As companies continue to invest in digital transformation, there are several actions they should take to ensure their data is secure, one of the most important being a data backup and recovery strategy. When it comes to SaaS applications running in the cloud, there are a number of unique considerations. Regulatory Compliance.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Application 59

Pure Storage

APRIL 13, 2022

Most business-critical applications run on high-performance all-flash storage arrays. The same forces that drive businesses to demand high performance from their applications apply to data protection operations. IT professionals need fast data protection before challenges to application availability appear. . Faster Is Better.

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Backup Application Outage Media 52

Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

But having control when it’s spread across hundreds of different applications both internal and external and across various cloud platforms is a whole other matter. . The problem is that most businesses don’t know how to protect their containerized applications. According to Cybersecurity Insiders’ 2022 Cloud Security Report : .

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Security Backup Government Application 98

Pure Storage

JULY 19, 2022

If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights. But these are less applicable than they once were because what we were really talking about was the application. 1) VM = (1) application. This paradigm has shifted.

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Application Publishing Backup High Availability 98

MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Disaster Recovery Alternate Site Outage Capacity 52

Pure Storage

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Integrating Pure Storage all-flash storage technology with Equinix Metal bare metal infrastructure helps businesses achieve high performance, low latency, and rapid data access when using their data-intensive applications to run large databases, AI workloads, or high-velocity analytics. Simplicity. High-performance computing.

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Disaster Recovery Capacity Application Authorization 64

Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

RAM by Pure Storage Blog Flash memory is a high-performance solution to traditional hard drives making data storage and retrieval faster for applications and users. Every computer needs a form of RAM to store input from applications and send data to the central processing unit (CPU) for calculations. What Is Computer or System Memory?

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Application Capacity Outage Vulnerability 52

IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With business growth and changes in compute infrastructures, power equipment and capacities can become out of alignment, exposing your business to huge risk. Business continuity best practices suggest that backup sites be built at physically different locations, in different seismic zones.

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Resilience Failover Outage Backup 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. It is a monolithic application (application server and web server) that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The monolith application is tightly coupled with the database.

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Architecture Resilience Application Backup 74

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Despite the added complexity of running different workloads in different clouds, a multicloud model will enable companies to choose cloud offerings that are best suited to their individual application environments, availability needs, and business requirements. “Simple backup of data storage is no longer sufficient.

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High Availability Backup Disaster Recovery Application 135

Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

And many have chosen MySQL for their production environments for a variety of use cases, including as a relational database or as a component of the LAMP web application stack. And it has the protective benefits of specialized cluster servers and regular backups to separate nodes or data centers. It can be virtualized.

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High Availability Disaster Recovery Failover Activation 52

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

References to Runbooks detailing all applicable procedures step-by-step, with checklists and flow diagrams. Over time, these plans can be expanded as resources, capacity, and business functionality increase. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan?

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BCP Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Continuity Planning 82

Pure Storage

MAY 20, 2022

Because of the differences in structure, file storage and object storage have significantly different capacity to scale. While file storage isn’t considered extremely expensive, it can result in higher costs as you add capacity. This makes it simple to retrieve data via many different applications and even web browsers.

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Capacity Architecture Retail Travel 52

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, organizations are having a one-to-one mapping between source clouds and data backup, and disaster recovery sites lead to multiple standard operating procedures and multiple points of data thefts along with inconsistent recovery SLAs.”

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High Availability Disaster Recovery Application Technology 59

Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

CIOs can use the capacity required immediately via OPEX, manage costs over time based upon discounting, and have the ability to burst into the type of high IO (a.k.a. Now is the time to leverage data protection broadly, including looking at backup and restore strategies for simple business continuity in Azure or AWS in the public cloud.

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Business Continuity Pandemic 122

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. What are the lessons I identified from the OVHcloud fire? Check your contract.

Backup 52

Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. What are the lessons I identified from the OVHcloud fire? Check your contract.

Backup 52

Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup.

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Internet Outage 61

Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

That’s why “ resiliency ,” the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties, is key. Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. This ensures that if one component fails, there’s a backup to maintain operations. Things will go wrong.

Resilience 52

Resilience Vulnerability Cybersecurity Mitigation 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7.

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Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7.

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Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52