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The Evolving Relationship Between Backup and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

Then it also became apparent that a backup should probably be stored somewhere other than where the primary data was, just in case a disaster of some kind might affect both copies of data in the same location. The need for a safe backup copy was the birth of disaster recovery in IT.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

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.

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How to Choose the Right DRaaS Provider: Key Considerations

Zerto

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has become a vital component of modern business continuity planning. Key Considerations When Choosing a DRaaS Provider Assess and Define Your Disaster Recovery Needs Before you start evaluating DRaaS providers, assess your organization’s specific requirements.

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Disaster Recovery Implementation: Four Key Steps to Success

Solutions Review

In this submission, SIOS Technology Solutions Architect Ian Allton outlines the four keys to disaster recovery implementation, as well as 7 steps to proper business continuity planning. Establishing a disaster recovery plan could be a stressful task for IT and database administrators. 2) Disaster Recovery Plan.

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

NexusTek

READ TIME: 6 MIN May 15, 2023 Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? Ransomware attacks and disasters that result in permanent data destruction hit SMBs especially hard, and unfortunately, there are businesses that never recover. What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Disaster Recovery

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 event-driven serverless architecture performs failover by updating the weights of the Route 53 record. Fail over with event-driven serverless architecture.

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Disaster Recovery Testing – It May Just Save Your Business

Zerto

Disaster recovery (DR) testing is important across all industries and companies of all sizes to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. Importance of disaster recovery. Perform more frequent, smaller-scale tests to help keep your disaster recovery plan updated and your teams trained.