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. Let’s look at them one by one.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Solutions Review’s listing of the best backup and disaster recovery companies is an annual sneak peek of the solution providers included in our Buyer’s Guide and Solutions Directory. These changes speak to the cloud’s continued rise, significantly impacting the backup and disaster recovery market over recent years.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. The application diagram presented in Figures 2.1 refers to an application that processes payment transactions, which was modernized to utilize managed services in the AWS Cloud.

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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). With the multi-Region active/passive strategy, your workloads operate in primary and secondary Regions with full capacity. Figure 1.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

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. DR strategy defines the recovery objectives for downtime and data loss. The workload has a recovery time objective (RTO) and a recovery point objective (RPO).

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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. Data is at the center of many applications. For this reason, data consistency must be considered when building a multi-Region application.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 28, 2022

In this submission, Scality Co-Founder and CTO Giorgio Regni offers a commentary on backup and disaster recovery strategy in the new era of remote work. The shift to work-from-home and hybrid work models has put renewed focus on the importance of backup and disaster recovery plans. Employee-Directed Backup and Recovery.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Building a multi-Region application requires lots of preparation and work. In this 3-part blog series, we’ll explore AWS services with features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll look at the application and management layers. AWS CloudTrail logs user activity and API usage.

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National Fire Protection Association

JUNE 5, 2023

A great resource for establishing a plan for analyzing and making any necessary repairs to electrical systems during disaster recovery is Annex K of NFPA 70B, Standard for Electrical Equipment Maintenance. A site-specific safety plan should be in place before any potential disaster occurs.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In that event, businesses require a disaster recovery plan with best practices to restore hardware, applications, and data in time to meet the business recovery needs. What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? Notable Best Practices for Disaster Recovery. Why Do I Need One?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JUNE 3, 2022

Example Corp has multiple applications with varying criticality, and each of their applications have different needs in terms of resiliency, complexity, and cost. The P1 pattern uses a Multi-AZ architecture where applications operate in multiple AZs within a single AWS Region. P3 – Application portfolio distribution.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 8, 2024

You can use these fault boundaries to build multi-Region applications that consist of independent, fault-isolated replicas in each Region that limit shared fate scenarios. However, applications typically don’t operate in isolation; consider both the components you will use and their dependencies as part of your failover strategy.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Organizations with an active Disaster Recovery program conduct DR Tests to validate the Disaster Preparedness component of their IT Service Continuity strategies. As part of this DR test , 137 distinct DR plans were activated with a planned Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 72 hours.

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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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SRM

JUNE 30, 2020

Both a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan are critical elements of good security. One of the most common queries we receive from businesses looking to gain a better understanding of information security is, “What is the difference between a Disaster Recover plan and a Business Continuity plan.”

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Zerto

MARCH 21, 2023

This article will explain in detail the functionality of one-to-many replication, how it employs virtual replication appliances and groups, and some common recovery models that leverage its features. Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a disaster recovery (DR) solution that offers a unique one-to-many replication feature.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test. DR Tests are the only way to measure the effectiveness of a Disaster Recovery Program. Once the objectives of a DR Test are set, the preparation activities can begin. Application Validation Plans: owned by Business Analysts.

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Solutions Review

MAY 2, 2022

In this submission, JetStream Software ‘s President and Co-Founder Rich Petersen makes the case for why organizations should shift to disaster recovery as a cloud-based service right now. To preserve the same level of application performance, additional compute, memory and low latency storage may be needed.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This template guides you through the development of a management decision-making framework necessary to coordinate response activities following the onset of a disruptive incident. Department Recovery Plan Template. IT Application Recovery Template. IT Application Recovery Template.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

With more than three million consumer households at stake, they have designated disaster preparedness a ‘mission critical’ program. Periodic testing and validation of their documented Disaster Recovery Plans are the only way to certify their DR Program as credible and viable.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases.

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Pure Storage

JULY 26, 2022

In fact, according to a survey by Evolve IP , 93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. For that reason and others, it’s critical that you have a disaster recovery plan for your organization. Disaster Recovery Is a Non-negotiable.

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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.

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Pure Storage

MAY 16, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different. Their effects, however, couldn’t be more different.

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Pure Storage

MAY 16, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different. Their effects, however, couldn’t be more different.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The term data protection describes both the operational backup of data as well as business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR). Another example is collaborating with contractors or vendors, which requires data availability on more cloud storage and applications.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

No application is safe from ransomware. In 2022, IDC conducted a study to understand the evolving requirements for ransomware and disaster recovery preparation. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers.

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Zerto

MARCH 15, 2023

SREs and DR DR refers to the processes, procedures, and technologies used to prepare for and recover from natural or man-made disasters that threaten the availability of critical systems. DR tries to minimize the impact a disaster has on applications, restoring them to a usable state as quickly as possible.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The data services provided with any Pure Cloud Block Store instance can be used for a number of use cases with Microsoft SQL Server: Data protection and disaster recovery: Replicated or offloaded volume snapshots or continuous replication using ActiveDR™ can be implemented for database volumes. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery .

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Pure Storage

JUNE 22, 2022

So, given its importance, you want to make sure you have a solid solution for ensuring it’s highly available or protected in the event of a disaster. Most SAP HANA customers today are using SAP HANA system replication (HSR) to ensure the high availability and disaster recovery systems remain in sync.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

Many people are familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud-computing model in which software applications are delivered over the internet. A related model familiar to many in the BC community is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), which provides an offsite, cloud-based solution for IT disaster recovery.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Importance of Backup for Microsoft Azure Active Directory In today’s digital landscape, organizations rely heavily on cloud-based services to safeguard critical data and ensure business continuity. Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) plays a crucial role as the identity and access management platform for Microsoft cloud services.

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Zerto

MAY 24, 2022

Growing in both volume and severity, malicious actors are finding increasingly sophisticated methods of targeting the vulnerability of applications. Victims are either forced to pay the ransom or face total loss of business-critical applications. by protecting any application using continuous data protection (CDP).

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 11, 2022

When you deploy mission-critical applications, you must ensure that your applications and data are resilient to single points of failure. Organizations are increasingly adopting a multicloud strategy—placing applications and data in two or more clouds in addition to an on-premises environment.

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Solutions Review

MAY 10, 2024

In this feature, Zerto (HPE) ‘s Director of Technical Marketing Kevin Cole offers commentary on backup, disaster recovery, and cyber recovery and supporting the need for speed. Finally, cyber recovery (CR) deals with the challenge of malware and cyberattacks.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. DR teams can extract or infer recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) that will meet the SLA requirement.

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Zerto

MAY 10, 2022

According to a recent IDC report, 79% of respondents have activated a disaster response in the past 12 months, while 61% of DR responses were triggered by either ransomware or other malware. Staying maniacally focused on ransomware recovery, disaster recovery, and multi-cloud mobility, Zerto released new product features in Zerto 9.5,

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