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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then. On December 7, 2021, a major outage in the form of a DNS disruption in the North Virginia AWS region disrupted many online services.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? In this post, you’ll learn how to reduce dependencies in your DR plan and manually control failover even if critical AWS services are disrupted. Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Static stability.

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Unlocking the Secrets of Uninterrupted IT Operations: Demystifying High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

The standby servers act as a ready-to-go copy of the application environment that can be a failover in case the primary (active) server becomes disconnected or is unable to service client requests. In the event of a primary server failure, processes running the services are moved to the standby cluster.

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Disaster Recovery Implementation: Four Key Steps to Success

Solutions Review

No business continuity or disaster recovery plan can tackle every possible event or set of circumstances and, for that reason, both BC/DR should evolve continuously. Step 6: Test the Plan – Use scheduled power outages or major upgrades as a chance to test the plan. RTO is the maximum tolerable length of time of an outage.

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Part 3 – How Zerto’s One-to-Many Supports Kubernetes

Zerto

These disruptions range from minor inconveniences to major outages and can have a significant impact on the availability and performance of your applications. In the event of a disaster, users can restore the application across multiple on-premises clusters or Kubernetes services running in the public cloud.

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Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 4 of 4

Pure Storage

Part 1 :  Configure ActiveDR and protect your DB volumes (why & how) Part 2 :  Accessing the DB volumes at the DR site and opening the database Part 3 :  Non-disruptive DR drills with some simple scripting Part 4 :  Controlled and emergency failovers/failbacks In Part 1, we learned how to configure ActiveDR™.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Disaster recovery , often referred to simply as “DR,” ensures that organizations can rebound quickly in the face of major adverse events. The primary focus of DR is to restore IT infrastructure and data after a significantly disruptive event. Get the Guide What Is Disaster Recovery Planning?