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Failover: What It Is and Its Importance in Business Continuity

Unitrends

Have you ever thought about what a disaster might look like to your business without the ability to failover? Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation.

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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then. On December 7, 2021, a major outage in the form of a DNS disruption in the North Virginia AWS region disrupted many online services.

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Failover: What It Is and Its Importance in Business Continuity

Unitrends

Have you ever thought about what a disaster might look like to your business without the ability to failover? Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. 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.

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

Solutions Review’s Tim King compiled this roundup of 45 World Backup Day quotes from 32 experts for 2023, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. World Backup Day quotes have been vetted for relevance and ability to add business value.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Backup and disaster recovery are critical elements in the drive to thwart ransomware. Backup is the final layer of data protection. All too often, however, organizations mount what they think are effective backup systems only to find them inadequate in a real emergency. Want to learn more about backup and ransomware?

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World Backup Day: The MSP Uptime Lifeline

OffsiteDataSync

World Backup Day was first introduced in 2011. It was easy enough back then; IT just had to backup to tape at night, keep a copy or two around for a month and send another offsite for archival storage. Backup has seen great advancement – even the standard 3-2-1 rule has added a digit or two. But those times are long gone.

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