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How to Protect Your Database with Zerto

Zerto

However, unlike diamonds, databases are dynamic and therefore require protection from a plethora of vulnerabilities and data loss. Database contents change depending on the applications they serve, and they need to be protected alongside other application components.

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Why SREs Need DR Now

Zerto

DR tries to minimize the impact a disaster has on applications, restoring them to a usable state as quickly as possible. SRE, on the other hand, is a discipline (and job title for many) that applies engineering practices to operations to improve the reliability and availability of the infrastructure that hosts applications.

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Introducing Pure Protect //Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Pure Storage

Combatting these various threats and disasters can lead to complex solutions and costly applications that only solve part of the problem. It begins with a risk assessment to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats, including natural disasters, cyberattacks, hardware failures, and human error.

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Four key measures to strengthen operational resilience

IBM Business Resiliency

A well-planned data center design, integrated system testing and a regular functional test of the BCDR plan can help IT managers quickly detect equipment fault or vulnerabilities in near real time. Some of them use manual runbooks to perform failover/failbacks. Recoverability and reliability.

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Upgrade Your Own FlashArray with Pure1

Pure Storage

First, there’s the pre-op work, such as assessing the risks and checking on the health of the arrays, switches, hosts, and applications. The database and application teams needed to fail over their delicate applications to secondary instances. Many specialist teams had to get involved. Support-led Upgrades Will Still Exist!

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Our Latest eBook – Backup & Disaster Recovery Strategies for the New World of Work

OffsiteDataSync

In it, IT pros will find a wealth of information that enables them to successfully implement data protection at a time when a lot of corporate data and applications no longer live within the confines of the network perimeter. . Data is subject to greater risk outside the corporate firewall and the vulnerabilities are diverse.

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

NexusTek

Included in the plan is a list of all disaster recovery technology to be deployed and the owners of each deployment when applicable. There are many solutions that also allow for an entire technology environment to be “spun up” in the cloud—referred to as failover—in the case of an onsite disaster. How Do They Work Together?