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Unlocking the Secrets of Uninterrupted IT Operations: Demystifying High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

In the challenging landscape of keeping your IT operations online all the time, understanding the contrasting methodologies of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) is paramount. What Is High Availability? Failover is a part of the DR plan by providing both system and network-level redundancy.

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Delivering Multicloud Agility with Software-defined Storage

Pure Storage

Pure Cloud Block Store offers built-in data protection that leverages multiple high-availability zones (AZs), to reduce physical fault domain exposure. To work around availability vulnerabilities arising from a single point of failure, you have to refactor or redesign your applications—which can be time-consuming and costly.

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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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Introducing Pure Protect //Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Pure Storage

It begins with a risk assessment to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats, including natural disasters, cyberattacks, hardware failures, and human error. The plan typically includes regular backups both on-site and off-site, redundant hardware for high availability (HA), and failover systems.

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Why SREs Need DR Now

Zerto

They continuously improve systems’ design and operation, and they work closely with development teams to ensure that systems are highly available, resilient, and prepared for planned and unplanned disruptions to applications. A robust DR strategy is critical to application availability and resilience.

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The 15 Best Business Continuity Software and Tools for 2024

Solutions Review

Arcserve Platform: Arcserve Continuous Availability Description: Arcserve offers several different backup products, including Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP), Arcserve Replication and High Availability, Arcserve UDP Cloud Direct, UDP Cloud Hybrid, and a legacy offering.

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45 World Backup Day Quotes from 32 Experts for 2023

Solutions Review

It’s important to do full failover and recovery whenever possible so that you truly can understand the nuances you may face in a real situation. Vulnerabilities, outdated environments, shadow IT… will be used to gain initial access in your environment. Cloud backups are often more vulnerable.

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