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Four key measures to strengthen operational resilience

IBM Business Resiliency

Closely aligned with a data center strategy should be a holistic BCDR strategy that considers all types of risks (system failure, natural disaster, human error or cyberattack) and outage scenarios, and provides plans for mitigation with minimal or no impact to the business. Some of them use manual runbooks to perform failover/failbacks.

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

NexusTek

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

Freedom from malware and/or ransomware : Backup systems are just as vulnerable to compromise as anything else, so they be kept clean. Typically, backup systems are called into action for discrete outages. A proper DR plan does not necessarily require a hot failover site.

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IT’s 4 Biggest Risks and How to Build Resilience against Them

Pure Storage

Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats. Prioritize systems that pose the most risk due to lack of support and security vulnerabilities.

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

Zerto

The standby servers act as a ready-to-go copy of the application environment that can be a failover in case the primary (active) server becomes disconnected or is unable to service client requests. Failover is a part of the DR plan by providing both system and network-level redundancy.

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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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Part 3 – How Zerto’s One-to-Many Supports Kubernetes

Zerto

These disruptions range from minor inconveniences to major outages and can have a significant impact on the availability and performance of your applications. Security vulnerabilities: Kubernetes is a complex system with many components and dependencies. But like any system, it can be subject to unplanned disruptions.