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Disaster Recovery Implementation: Four Key Steps to Success

Solutions Review

Step 6: Test the Plan – Use scheduled power outages or major upgrades as a chance to test the plan. You can recover from a failure by using clustering software to failover application operation from a primary server node to a secondary server node over a LAN. RTO is the maximum tolerable length of time of an outage.

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Lowering Azure VMs Recovery Time with Pure Cloud Block Store and Azure Automation

Pure Storage

In a disaster recovery scenario, there are two goals: Recovery time objective (RTO): Restoring critical applications as quickly as possible. It helps keep your multi-tier applications running during planned and unplanned IT outages. Recovery point objective (RPO) : Minimizing data loss . Add Orchestration for Your DR Plan.

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Enhancing Cybersecurity Resilience: Zerto’s Role in Supporting the Australian Essential Eight

Zerto

Understanding the “Essential Eight” The Essential Eight comprises crucial mitigation strategies, including patching applications and operating systems, implementing multi-factor authentication, restricting administrative privileges, employing application control, and ensuring regular backups.

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Comparing Resilience: Business, Operational, IT, and Cyber – Part Three

Zerto

IT resilience refers to the ability to continuously keep essential IT systems and applications up and running despite disasters and disruptions. An effective IT resilience strategy focuses on delivering an ‘always-on’ customer experience regardless of unplanned outages and changes to IT infrastructure. What Is IT Resilience?

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How Zerto Helps State, Local and Education Solve and Scale Data Protection

Zerto

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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What’s New in Zerto 10 for Azure?

Zerto

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Users can now easily protect workloads between regions within Azure for in-cloud protection against regional outages and other disruptions like cyberattacks.

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Synchronous Replication vs. Aynchronous Replication

Pure Storage

Synchronous replication is mainly used for high-end transactional applications that require instant failover if the primary node fails. If there’s an accident or outage, then transactions and data that aren’t replicated at the time of the incident will be lost, and data in secondary storage may not always be current.