AWS Disaster Recovery

JULY 27, 2021

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). The main traffic flows through the primary and the secondary Region acts as a recovery Region in case of a disaster event. Related information.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 17, 2023

What is a Resiliency Architecture and How Do You Build One? by Pure Storage Blog Meet “resiliency architectures”—a next-gen backup solution that gives organizations every chance to become more resilient in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. The post What is a Resiliency Architecture and How Do You Build One?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JUNE 23, 2021

In my first blog post of this series , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). My subsequent posts shared details on the backup and restore , pilot light, and warm standby active/passive strategies. I use Amazon DynamoDB for the example architecture in Figure 2. DR strategies.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. Two key areas of concern include disaster recovery in general, and, more specifically, cyber recovery.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The cost of not having an IT disaster recovery team can range from being unable to recover from a disruption, to overspending. Related on MHA Consulting: Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery The Price of Neglecting IT/DR Being a business continuity consultant can be frustrating.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 14, 2021

In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Previously, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. Related information.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

We address a scenario in which you are mandated to host the workload on a corporate data center (DC), and configure the backup site on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Since the primary objective of a backup site is disaster recovery (DR) management, this site is often referred to as a DR site. Disaster Recovery on AWS.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

Welcome to the third post of a multi-part series that addresses disaster recovery (DR) strategies with the use of AWS-managed services to align with customer requirements of performance, cost, and compliance. refer to part two of our blog series for guidance on using APIs for cross-Region replication. or OpenSearch 1.1,

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Pure Storage

APRIL 10, 2024

Taming the Storage Sprawl: Simplify Your Life with Fan-in Replication for Snapshot Consolidation by Pure Storage Blog As storage admins at heart, we know the struggle: Data keeps growing and applications multiply. This consolidation simplifies management, enhances disaster recovery (DR), and offers a treasure trove of benefits.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. The strategy outlined in this blog post addresses how to integrate AWS managed services into a single-Region DR strategy. Conclusion.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference?

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) are two important concepts used in disaster recovery planning. RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. RTO vs. RPO: What’s the Difference?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

What does static stability mean with regard to a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) plan? In the simplest case, we’ve deployed an application in a primary Region and a backup Region. In an event that triggers our DR plan, we manually or automatically switch the DNS records to direct all traffic to the backup Region.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

That’s why many customers replicate their mission-critical workloads in multiple places using a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy suited for their needs. 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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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 6, 2021

In Part I of this two-part blog , we outlined best practices to consider when building resilient applications in hybrid on-premises/cloud environments. In Part II, we’ll provide technical considerations related to architecture and patterns for resilience in AWS Cloud. Considerations on architecture and patterns.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 20, 2021

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Resolver endpoints on AWS create an architecture best practice for centralized DNS in hybrid cloud environment. Your business units can use flexibility and autonomy to manage the hosted zones for their applications and support multi-region application environments for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.

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OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 31, 2022

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. There’s cost.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the most common ransomware attacks we see today is the destruction of backup data. The ability to recover quickly from this sort of destructive attack is a huge question mark for traditional backup systems or any purpose-built backup solution. Figure 1: FlashRecover//S architecture overview.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A Storage-efficient Solution for Rapid Restore of VMs by Pure Storage Blog With the tremendous growth of data, companies are looking for the best approach to back it up. Ensuring the fast recovery of data when a disaster occurs has become more difficult. It also keeps existing backup SLAs intact when restoring hundreds of VMs.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2024

Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business pays $22 million in cryptocurrency to cybercriminals to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack that targeted a subsidiary, causing massive disruption across the industry.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 12, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, we looked at how to use AWS compute, networking, and security services to create a foundation for a multi-Region application. It can even be used to sync on-premises files stored on NFS, SMB, HDFS, and self-managed object storage to AWS for hybrid architectures. Copying backups. Related posts.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 8, 2024

This allows you to build multi-Region applications and leverage a spectrum of approaches from backup and restore to pilot light to active/active to implement your multi-Region architecture. Conclusion This blog post has looked at four different high-level approaches for creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 13, 2023

10 FAQs by Pure Storage Blog Wiperware, or wiper malware, is a disturbing evolution in cyber warfare that takes no prisoners—not even your data. The more espionage that’s pulled off prior to an attack, the more an attacker can learn your setup, backup provider, and more. What Is Wiperware?

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Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. I covered this topic in more detail in my last blog post , but the highlights bear repeating in light of these recent outages. How Safe is the Cloud? It’s Complicated .

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Pure Storage and Veeam Partner for Unrivaled Data Protection with Unbeatable Economics by Pure Storage Blog In today’s data-driven world, there’s nothing more important than safeguarding critical information. Veeam recovery has proven itself twice already—once during a system failure and a second time following user error.

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Pure Storage

JULY 17, 2023

Resiliency Is Top Priority in 2023 White House Cybersecurity Strategy by Pure Storage Blog Last week, the White House released the updated National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2023—“A Path to Resilience.” As you review the key objectives and recommendations, ask yourself: Is my security architecture resilient?

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More truths from the survey: Data will become more and more central to every decision you make, which means it must be resilient and well-protected in digital, federated architectures. But not all backups are created equal. Data storage with immutable backups was the second most common defense investment (53%).

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Pure Storage

MAY 29, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog “Stateful” and “stateless” describe what, if anything, an application records around processes, transactions, and/or interactions. Microservices: Many microservice architectures are designed to be stateless. Can Stateless Architectures Be Used for Applications with Stateful Data?

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Pure Storage

JUNE 16, 2022

And the backups of your important tables are sitting idle so perhaps you can do more? This post describes how PrestoSql can help you leverage your backup dataset to enable dev/test and analytics too. Creation of realistic dev/test tables based on backups. Analytics and machine learning on the backup copy.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 1, 2024

FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale by Pure Storage Blog FlashStack® for AI is a software-defined, intelligently managed, full-stack infrastructure featuring automated real-time scalability. New hardware requirements can be daunting to integrate and costly to deploy and manage.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2024

Helping Healthcare Organizations Stay Agile and Protect Data by Pure Storage Blog Imagine that your healthcare business needs to pay cybercriminals tens of millions of dollars to recover data and systems encrypted in a ransomware attack. Pure Tiered Resiliency Architecture is one such solution.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience. Performing real-time diagnostics, automating backup and recovery procedures and more.

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OffsiteDataSync

APRIL 7, 2022

He’s a former analyst with ESG, where he did a ton of work around backup and disaster recovery (DR), and he’s all over LinkedIn, Twitter, the Veeam blog and other platforms giving advice to IT about how to ensure they’ve got the strongest, most cost-effective data protection their organization can afford.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many AWS services have features to help you build and manage a multi-Region architecture, but identifying those capabilities across 200+ services can be overwhelming. In this 3-part blog series, we’ll explore AWS services with features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. Looking for more architecture content?

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 1, 2024

FlashStack for AI Checks the Boxes for Rapid AI Deployment at Any Scale by Pure Storage Blog FlashStack® for AI is a software-defined, intelligently managed, full-stack infrastructure featuring automated real-time scalability. New hardware requirements can be daunting to integrate and costly to deploy and manage.

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Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

How to Accelerate MySQL Workloads by Pure Storage Blog This article on MySQL Workloads was coauthored by Andrew Sillifant and Nihal Mirashi. And it has the protective benefits of specialized cluster servers and regular backups to separate nodes or data centers. A basic approach is to use simple backups. Single-command failover.

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