VOX Veritas

MARCH 15, 2018

What really happens when the cloud goes down and how do you protect your critical business applications in such an event? Learn about the anatomy of a cloud outage and best practices to help your business ensure maximum uptime against all odds.

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Zerto

APRIL 13, 2023

In this post, we start by discussing the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters. We’ll cover the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters and how Zerto for Kubernetes and its one-to-many replication functionality protects against them. They’re managed by the Kubernetes control plane.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

IT resilience refers to the ability to continuously keep essential IT systems and applications up and running despite disasters and disruptions. Without IT resilience, most businesses will be unable to maintain critical business functions when faced with disruptive events like cyberattacks, fires, natural disasters, etc.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and greater loss of data in the event of a disaster as compared to other strategies as shown in Figure 1. The application diagram presented in Figures 2.1

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An IT disaster that leaves an organization without its data and applications can be crippling, if not fatal. The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage.

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Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

With an ever-increasing dependency on data for all business functions and decision-making, the need for highly available application and database architectures has never been more critical. . Alternatively, shut down application servers and stop remote database access. . Re-enable full access to the database and application.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. A good BC strategy can help you swiftly recover your critical business processes in the event of a disruption, identify gaps that need to be remediated, and determine what training is necessary.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here, we delve into HA and DR, the dynamic duo of application resilience. High Availability is the ability of an application to continue to serve clients who are requesting access to its services. There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active.

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Pure Storage

MAY 17, 2024

In the context of computing, container orchestration specifically refers to the management of containerized applications, where containers encapsulate an application and its dependencies, making it portable and scalable across different computing environments.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

Educators need their applications available to reliably teach to our children, while constituents need access to emergency, financial and social services in their most critical time of need. An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives.

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Pure Storage

JULY 19, 2022

If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights. But these are less applicable than they once were because what we were really talking about was the application. 1) VM = (1) application. This paradigm has shifted.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’ve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, there’s one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a staged recovery environment (SRE). This should be set up in advance, tested, and in a ready state to be transitioned into quickly after an event. To stage and orchestrate the reintroduction of critical applications.

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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. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2021

IT pros and organizations are starting to realize the importance of protecting their Kubernetes applications. Containers and cloud-native workloads are not immune from disruptive events and data loss. This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. . New capabilities include: . and Rook Ceph .

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everbridge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Also, ensure that you follow OSHA guidelines to advise employees on proper winter safety, such as what to do in the event of frostbite, hypothermia, and other dangers related to extreme cold. Review emergency operations plans Ensure plans are up to date based on past events and potential risks.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Arcserve Drops New Research on Healthcare Data Protection The findings reveal gaps, vulnerabilities, and misconceptions in the healthcare sector, potentially hindering its ability to effectively safeguard and recover data in the event of malicious attacks and accidental data outages stemming from human error or natural events.

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Solutions Review

JULY 26, 2022

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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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Simple Regional failover scenario using Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . Seeding and reseeding times can be drastically minimized.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

No application is safe from ransomware. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers. Refactoring” an application means breaking it down into many different “services” which can be deployed and operated independently.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether it’s supplier challenges, extreme weather, an unplanned outage, or an increased threat of cyberattacks, it seems the next disruption is just around the corner. What happens when a hurricane causes damage to an entire region, causing several sites to go down along with unplanned network outages? Generate Response.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll also share some ideas on how you can ensure that your documentation is not simply window dressing but is a real aid that can improve your company’s ability to recover in the event of a disruption. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Common Mistake No.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In an age when ransomware attacks are common occurrences, simply having your systems, applications, and data backed up is not enough to ensure your organization is able to recover from a disaster. Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. As a result, they aren’t able to recover as fast as needed.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. It is a monolithic application (application server and web server) that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The monolith application is tightly coupled with the database.

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Pure Storage

JULY 5, 2023

So, as well as being able to prove our BCP processes work, we need a plan to enact them should a human error occur or in the event of something far more serious such as a natural disaster. The steps to ensure this are: Clean shutdown of PROD applications and database services. Start DR database services and applications.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An IT disaster that leaves an organization without its data and applications can be crippling, if not fatal. The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Inevitably, something will fail unexpectedly, and chaos will rise during times of stress, such as incidents and service outages. PagerDuty Operations Cloud serves as a central hub for all events coming from any tool you already use. This can be accomplished by using either the Events API or the REST API. So, be prepared.

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

Recent years have been marked by a series of critical events that have challenged the resilience of organizations across the globe. From cyberattacks to natural disasters, these events have demonstrated the importance of strengthening organizational resilience.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As such, organizational leaders must thoroughly understand these terms: their similarities and differences, and how to leverage them to safeguard their business operations from threats and disruptive events. guaranteed uptime and allow a maximum of two outage events per year, lasting not more than three hours each.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Application: Predictive analytics enables organizations to rapidly assess risks and proactively implement measures to mitigate the impact of potential disruptions. Application: In the event of a cybersecurity breach, AI automates the identification, containment, and eradication of threats, reducing response time.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), As such, you need a data protection management and recovery solution that seamlessly protects your data and workloads across multiple solutions, applications, and environments. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today’s organizations are using and creating more data from applications, databases, sensors, as well as other sources. Not all data is equal: When a disaster strikes, there are certain sets of data and applications the business needs to get back up and running. We are data dependent: The business environment has become data-centric.

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Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Data backup is the process after a data loss event of duplicating data to facilitate retrieval of the duplicate set Duplicating data in order to recover the duplicate set following a data loss incident. They guarantee that data is secure and that essential information is safe in the event of a natural disaster, theft, or other emergency.

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Online Computers

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In the event of a disaster, you will need to have leaders who can take charge and make decisions. Your employees should be equipped with the skills and resources that will enable them to survive or carry on in the event of a disaster. This involves creating backups of any software or applications you use, as well as any website files.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For a hyperconnected digital business, even a small disruptive event can ripple through the entire organization. Cloud-based data protection and recovery allows organizations to back up and store critical data and applications off-site, so they are protected from local disruptions. Today most businesses have BCDR plans.

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LogisManager

JULY 22, 2021

Their process for developing and updating their BCP initially involved holding in-person interviews with department heads to gather information about various impacts to their core processes in case of an outage: Who are their key team members? What vendors or applications do they rely on? What are their workaround processes?

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