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How to Choose the Right DRaaS Provider: Key Considerations

Zerto

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. Therefore, reliability and availability should be top priorities when evaluating providers. SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR). Non-disruptive testing.

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The Evolving Relationship Between Backup and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

Real-Time Replication and Failover Other rapid disaster recovery technologies emerged to fill the gap where backup faltered. Failover meant that a data set, application, or entire system could be quickly restored to running order following a disruption, even at a remote location.

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Minimizing Dependencies in a Disaster Recovery Plan

AWS Disaster Recovery

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. Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Let’s dig into the DR scenario in more detail.

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Disaster Recovery Implementation: Four Key Steps to Success

Solutions Review

The disaster recovery planner should recognize the distinction between failures and disasters as they evaluate the different solutions needed for high availability (HA) and DR. A key distinction involves the location of redundant resources and whether you want to failover operation to them or simply make a copy (replication) of them.

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Implementing Multi-Region Disaster Recovery Using Event-Driven Architecture

AWS Disaster Recovery

We highlight the benefits of performing DR failover using event-driven, serverless architecture, which provides high reliability, one of the pillars of AWS Well Architected Framework. The event-driven serverless architecture performs failover by updating the weights of the Route 53 record. Amazon RDS database. Testing and results.

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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

We accomplish this by automating and orchestrating snapshots and replication within EBS to efficiently move data across regions and allow rapid failover between regions in a disaster event. As an agentless disaster recovery solution, Zerto stands out in delivering rapid failover and recovery at scale. .

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3 Reasons Software Defines the Best All-Flash Array

Pure Storage

Below are three litmus tests that you should consider in evaluating the quality of a candidate all-flash array: 1. HA cannot be left as a homework exercise: Requiring a customer to buy two machines and then figure out how to configure failover, resync and failback policies is not what we mean by HA. It is self-healing.

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