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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

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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Pure Introduces First External Block Storage for Azure VMware Solution

Pure Storage

For customers with storage-intensive VMware workloads, Pure Cloud Block Store ™ provides the flexibility to match your Azure VMware Solution compute needs with your storage capacity needs—optimizing your spend in the cloud. And it will enable them to deploy a complete disaster recovery solution for their on-premises VMware workloads.

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Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Disaster Recovery

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. This keeps RTO and RPO low.

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

AWS Disaster Recovery

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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Decrease Recovery Time for Microsoft SQL Server Disasters with Pure Cloud Block Store in Microsoft Azure

Pure Storage

The capacity listed for each model is effective capacity with a 4:1 data reduction rate. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . More efficient data movement, resulting in more consistent recovery point objectives . Figure 1: The //V10 and //V20 versions of Pure Cloud Block Store.

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Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test – Part 3: Metrics

eBRP

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.