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Four key measures to strengthen operational resilience

IBM Business Resiliency

Closely aligned with a data center strategy should be a holistic BCDR strategy that considers all types of risks (system failure, natural disaster, human error or cyberattack) and outage scenarios, and provides plans for mitigation with minimal or no impact to the business. Some of them use manual runbooks to perform failover/failbacks.

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Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

NexusTek

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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IT’s 4 Biggest Risks and How to Build Resilience against Them

Pure Storage

Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats. Prioritize systems that pose the most risk due to lack of support and security vulnerabilities.

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

Zerto

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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Why Containers are Susceptible to Ransomware (& How Zerto Can Help!)

Zerto

No application is safe from ransomware. This study uncovered a demand for data that has never been greater, and yet the vulnerability and risks to data integrity are escalating, with ransomware attacks growing in both severity and scale. Challenges with Refactoring Applications. In Kubernetes, each Pod has an IP address.

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Part 3 – How Zerto’s One-to-Many Supports Kubernetes

Zerto

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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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? In this post, you’ll learn how to reduce dependencies in your DR plan and manually control failover even if critical AWS services are disrupted. Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Let’s dig into the DR scenario in more detail.