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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

In part I of this series, we introduced a disaster recovery (DR) concept that uses managed services through a single AWS Region strategy. Using multiple Regions ensures resiliency in the most serious, widespread outages. In part two, we introduce a multi-Region backup and restore approach. DR Strategies. Architecture overview.

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An Old Threat Returns…Computer Outage

Plan B Consulting

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. There is very little spare capacity in the system to accommodate delayed passengers and cancelled flights, so the effects take days to sort out.

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Three Key Steps for Implementing a Disaster Recovery Strategy

Solutions Review

In this submission, OwnBackup CTO Adrian Kunzle offers three key steps for implementing a disaster recovery strategy. Here are the key steps to consider: Steps for Implementing a Disaster Recovery Strategy. Frequent backup ability to support the recovery point objectives defined earlier.

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The Ocado fire – when disaster recovery becomes real

IT Governance BC

Any downtime can be unacceptable given the pace of modern life, so it is essential for organisations to plan for disaster. Business continuity planning and disaster recovery planning. However, no organisation can afford to think it is safe, and ought to make plans for both business continuity and disaster recovery.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

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. Multi-Region strategy.

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Decrease Recovery Time for Microsoft SQL Server Disasters with Pure Cloud Block Store in Microsoft Azure

Pure Storage

The capacity listed for each model is effective capacity with a 4:1 data reduction rate. . Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. .