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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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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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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish. Machines do not have hubris.

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Disaster Recovery Implementation: Four Key Steps to Success

Solutions Review

Step 6: Test the Plan – Use scheduled power outages or major upgrades as a chance to test the plan. You can recover from a failure by using clustering software to failover application operation from a primary server node to a secondary server node over a LAN. RTO is the maximum tolerable length of time of an outage.

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Lowering Azure VMs Recovery Time with Pure Cloud Block Store and Azure Automation

Pure Storage

It helps keep your multi-tier applications running during planned and unplanned IT outages. For those organizations that choose to migrate and run their mission-critical applications on the cloud, Pure Cloud Block Store ™ offers built-in protection against outages of availability zones, regions, and even clouds.

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Comparing Resilience: Business, Operational, IT, and Cyber – Part Three

Zerto

Aside from data backup and replication considerations, IT organizations and teams also need to design robust disaster recovery (DR) plans and test these DR plans frequently to ensure quick and effective recovery from planned and unplanned outage events when they occur. The right technologies and resources can help you achieve this.

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What’s New in Zerto 10 for Azure?

Zerto

Zerto for Azure stands out as an exceptional choice as a scalable DR solution that provides seamless failovers and migrations to, from, and within the Azure cloud environment. Users can now easily protect workloads between regions within Azure for in-cloud protection against regional outages and other disruptions like cyberattacks.