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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. High security, compartmentalized access, biometrics, the works. Uptime Institute Tier 4, everything down to the power into the racks was High Availability.

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Oracle Database Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution with Storage Snapshots

Pure Storage

With an ever-increasing dependency on data for all business functions and decision-making, the need for highly available application and database architectures has never been more critical. . Many databases use storage replication for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR). Data Loss and Corruption.

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

MHA Consulting

These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Critical documentation should be kept in a highly available state with the knowledge of how to access it being widely shared. It helps organizations identify gaps, train their teams, and respond effectively during outages.

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Decrease Recovery Time for Microsoft SQL Server Disasters with Pure Cloud Block Store in Microsoft Azure

Pure Storage

Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. . Availability groups can be created to provide high availability, read scale, or disaster recovery. .

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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. Here, we delve into HA and DR, the dynamic duo of application resilience. What Is High Availability?

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Pure Storage at VMware Explore 2022

Pure Storage

There have been new core storage features released with VMware vSphere and correctly configuring them is critical to optimum performance and resilience. Also, stretched cluster SDDCs offer an availability strategy to customers. Don’t forget to join our sessions: Core Storage Best Practice Deep Dive [CEIB1382USD].

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Field Notes: Setting Up Disaster Recovery in a Different Seismic Zone Using AWS Outposts

AWS Disaster Recovery

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. This ensures that the control plane stays available via the AWS Singapore Region even if there is an outage in AWS Mumbai Region affecting control plane availability.