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

Zerto

There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active. 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.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

We use the following objectives: Recovery time objective (RTO) : The maximum acceptable delay between the interruption of service and restoration of service. Recovery point objective (RPO) : The maximum acceptable amount of time since the last data recovery point. Recovery objectives: RTO and RPO.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) for a Third-party Interactive Voice Response on AWS

AWS Disaster Recovery

RPO is the maximum acceptable amount of time since the last data recovery point. These are backup and restore, active/passive (pilot light or warm standby), or active/active. Disaster recovery (DR) options. Based on these health checks, the NLB will do the routing and the failover. Conclusion.

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Why SREs Need DR Now

Zerto

SREs can set up customer service-level agreements (SLAs) that will trigger when prompted during a disruption, automating the recovery and bringing the application back online. This eliminates the need for manual intervention and reduces the risk of human error when initiating a failover.

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Keeping Up with Today’s Data Protection Challenges

Zerto

Mitigating Ransomware and Facilitating Data Recovery. Ransomware, which involves hackers encrypting the victim’s critical data assets and demanding payment for de-encryption, has become a torment of public and private sector enterprises. ” Protecting Data Anywhere, Anytime. For Amit B., ” For Tim L.,

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Leading Investment Bank Enhances Digital Services with Modern Storage

Pure Storage

With use cases spanning its customer experience, data failover processes, and everything in between, the bank sees Pure as a long-term partner that will help it achieve its cloud ambitions. Failover processes became a priority for the bank after one team had to manually fail over 4,000 virtual machines in a single weekend.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

For your recovery Region, you should use a different AWS account than your primary Region, with different credentials. Failover and cross-Region recovery with a multi-Region backup and restore strategy. Restoring data from backup creates resources for that data such as EBS volumes, RDS DB instances, and DynamoDB tables.