Architecture, Blog, Disaster Recovery and Failover

Creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy

AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 8, 2024

This allows you to build multi-Region applications and leverage a spectrum of approaches from backup and restore to pilot light to active/active to implement your multi-Region architecture. Component-level failover Applications are made up of multiple components, including their infrastructure, code and config, data stores, and dependencies.

Failover

Failover Application Authorization Disaster Recovery

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Ultimately, any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary location is classified a disaster. This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. DR objectives.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Backup

Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Disaster Recovery

JULY 27, 2021

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). The main traffic flows through the primary and the secondary Region acts as a recovery Region in case of a disaster event. Amazon RDS database.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Application

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

Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. Get the Guide What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? Unlock massive savings, on-premises and in the cloud.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning

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

Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog When the unexpected happens, poorly prepared businesses run the risk that everything could come to a screeching halt. What Is Disaster Recovery Planning? All of that leads to lost revenue, unhappy customers, and bad publicity.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

AWS Disaster Recovery

JUNE 23, 2021

In my first blog post of this series , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR). The architecture in Figure 2 shows you how to use AWS Regions as your active sites, creating a multi-Region active/active architecture. I use Amazon DynamoDB for the example architecture in Figure 2.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Activation Architecture Failover

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 14, 2021

In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Previously, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. Pilot light DR strategy.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Activation

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 26, 2021

In a previous blog post , I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. These strategies enable you to prepare for and recover from a disaster. For your recovery Region, you should use a different AWS account than your primary Region, with different credentials. Conclusion.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Architecture Backup Failover

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since the primary objective of a backup site is disaster recovery (DR) management, this site is often referred to as a DR site. Disaster Recovery on AWS. DR strategy defines the recovery objectives for downtime and data loss. The workload has a recovery time objective (RTO) and a recovery point objective (RPO).

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Failover Architecture Backup

Disaster recovery with AWS managed services, Part 2: Multi-Region/backup and restore

AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. Architecture overview. Health checks are necessary for configuring DNS failover within Route 53. In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. ElastiCache.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Backup Management Outage

Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS-Managed Services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive

AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

Welcome to the third post of a multi-part series that addresses disaster recovery (DR) strategies with the use of AWS-managed services to align with customer requirements of performance, cost, and compliance. You would just need to create the records and specify failover for the routing policy. or OpenSearch 1.1,

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Activation Failover Management

Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

What does static stability mean with regard to a multi-Region disaster recovery (DR) plan? 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.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Failover Outage Application

Field Notes: Protecting Domain-Joined Workloads with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

AWS Disaster Recovery

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When designing a Disaster Recovery plan, one of the main questions we are asked is how Microsoft Active Directory will be handled during a test or failover scenario. Overview of architecture. In the following architecture, we show how you can protect domain-joined workloads in the case of a disaster.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Failover Activation Architecture

Taming the Storage Sprawl: Simplify Your Life with Fan-in Replication for Snapshot Consolidation

Pure Storage

APRIL 10, 2024

Taming the Storage Sprawl: Simplify Your Life with Fan-in Replication for Snapshot Consolidation by Pure Storage Blog As storage admins at heart, we know the struggle: Data keeps growing and applications multiply. This consolidation simplifies management, enhances disaster recovery (DR), and offers a treasure trove of benefits.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Capacity Disaster Preparedness Backup

Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region

AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. The strategy outlined in this blog post addresses how to integrate AWS managed services into a single-Region DR strategy.

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Management Backup Failover

Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 20, 2021

Route 53 Private Hosted Zones (PHZs) and Resolver endpoints on AWS create an architecture best practice for centralized DNS in hybrid cloud environment. Your business units can use flexibility and autonomy to manage the hosted zones for their applications and support multi-region application environments for disaster recovery (DR) purposes.

Architecture

Architecture Failover High Availability Application

IT Resilience Within AWS Cloud, Part II: Architecture and Patterns

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 6, 2021

In Part I of this two-part blog , we outlined best practices to consider when building resilient applications in hybrid on-premises/cloud environments. In Part II, we’ll provide technical considerations related to architecture and patterns for resilience in AWS Cloud. Considerations on architecture and patterns.

Architecture

Architecture Resilience Failover Disaster Recovery

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput , we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution.

Architecture

Architecture Resilience Application Backup

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

Pure Storage

JUNE 3, 2022

Planning your business disaster recovery solution is an exhausting process that requires a lot of rehearsal testing and allocation of expensive resources. In a disaster recovery scenario, there are two goals: Recovery time objective (RTO): Restoring critical applications as quickly as possible.

Failover

Failover Disaster Recovery Outage Fashion

Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

DECEMBER 21, 2021

At the end of November, I blogged about the need for disaster recovery in the cloud and also attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Nevada. I covered this topic in more detail in my last blog post , but the highlights bear repeating in light of these recent outages. How Safe is the Cloud? It’s Complicated .

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Outage Disaster Recovery Failover Resilience

Part 4 – One-to-Many with Zerto for AWS

Zerto

MAY 4, 2023

This final blog post in the one-to-many replication series will discuss how to leverage Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to protect and migrate on-premises VMs to EC2 instances with one-to-many replication. This feature can greatly help solutions architects design AWS DR architectures (2).

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Application

Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 2, Data and Replication

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 12, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog series, we looked at how to use AWS compute, networking, and security services to create a foundation for a multi-Region application. Failover routing is also automatically handled if the connectivity or availability to a bucket changes. Purpose-built global database architecture. Ready to get started?

Application

Application Failover Architecture Backup

Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute and Security

AWS Disaster Recovery

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Many AWS services have features to help you build and manage a multi-Region architecture, but identifying those capabilities across 200+ services can be overwhelming. In this 3-part blog series, we’ll explore AWS services with features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. Looking for more architecture content?

Application

Application Security Architecture Failover

Delivering Multicloud Agility with Software-defined Storage

Pure Storage

AUGUST 11, 2022

The unique architecture enables us to upgrade any component in the stack without disruption. . Pure Cloud Block Store removes this limitation with an architecture that provides high availability. You can update the software on controller 2, then failover so that it’s active. Visit the Azure Marketplace to learn more.

High Availability

High Availability Failover Disaster Recovery Application

Meet SOX IT Compliance Requirements with the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault

Zerto

AUGUST 9, 2023

It combines the best-in-class hardware and disaster recovery software, which includes HPE Alletra, HPE ProLiant, and Zerto for data protection. It employs a zero-trust architecture and hardened Linux virtual appliances that follow the principles of least privilege. Are you ready to rock your SOX IT compliance?

Cyber Resilience

Cyber Resilience Resilience Audit Disaster Recovery

How to Accelerate MySQL Workloads

Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

How to Accelerate MySQL Workloads by Pure Storage Blog This article on MySQL Workloads was coauthored by Andrew Sillifant and Nihal Mirashi. In a previous blog post, I covered 4 common MySQL issues and how to solve them. MySQL Workloads Disaster Recovery MySQL databases are the heart of many businesses.

High Availability

High Availability Disaster Recovery Failover Activation

Improve Business Continuity with Virtualization

Pure Storage

JULY 28, 2021

It presents an opportunity to redefine your architecture. Double-Strength Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with Virtualization. When it comes to disaster recovery and business continuity, integration again makes all the difference. Some organizations have already started the transformation process.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Failover Continuity Planning

The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience. Performing real-time diagnostics, automating backup and recovery procedures and more.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Technology Disaster Recovery Crisis Management

World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

OffsiteDataSync

MARCH 31, 2022

Why the need for disaster recovery specialists? In particular, that means backup and disaster recovery (DR) specialists are needed that can advise on data protection strategy, architecture, recovery options, compliance and a whole lot more. Disaster recovery services on target or overkill?

Backup

Backup Disaster Recovery Failover Outsourcing

Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 1 of 4

Pure Storage

JUNE 6, 2023

Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR — Part 1 of 4 by Pure Storage Blog In this four-part series, I’ll explore using ActiveDR ™ for managing Oracle disaster recovery. So let’s get started and take a look at a logical architecture diagram of what we’re about to build.

Failover

Failover Transportation Outage Fashion

Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 3: Getting Control

Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

In part 2 of our three-part cloud data security blog series, we discussed the issue of complexity. Each service in a microservice architecture, for example, uses configuration metadata to register itself and initialize. PX-Backup can continually sync two FlashBlade appliances at two different data centers for immediate failover.

Security

Security Backup Government Application

Run Kafka on Kubernetes at Scale with Portworx

Pure Storage

AUGUST 4, 2021

These include automated capacity management capabilities, data and application disaster recovery, application-aware high availability, migrations, and backup and restore. Portworx can provide the same abstraction and benefits for your Kafka on Kubernetes architecture regardless of the cloud or infrastructure.

Capacity

Capacity Application High Availability Disaster Recovery

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Creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy

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

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Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

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

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

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part IV: Multi-site Active/Active

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

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

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

Disaster recovery with AWS managed services, Part 2: Multi-Region/backup and restore

Disaster Recovery Solutions with AWS-Managed Services, Part 3: Multi-Site Active/Passive

Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

Field Notes: Protecting Domain-Joined Workloads with CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

Taming the Storage Sprawl: Simplify Your Life with Fan-in Replication for Snapshot Consolidation

Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region

Using Route 53 Private Hosted Zones for Cross-account Multi-region Architectures

IT Resilience Within AWS Cloud, Part II: Architecture and Patterns

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

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

Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Part 4 – One-to-Many with Zerto for AWS

Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 2, Data and Replication

Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute and Security

Delivering Multicloud Agility with Software-defined Storage

Meet SOX IT Compliance Requirements with the Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault

How to Accelerate MySQL Workloads

Improve Business Continuity with Virtualization

The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies

World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

Non-disruptive DR Drills for Oracle Databases Using Pure Storage ActiveDR?—?Part 1 of 4

Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 3: Getting Control

Run Kafka on Kubernetes at Scale with Portworx

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