Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For my current client, I first considered this system’s potential after a hypothetical hurricane or extreme weather event. While Aruba has not faced a severe hurricane in living memory, such a system could still be valuable after an event causing widespread damage.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. We often hear people say, “We’re in the cloud, so we don’t have to an IT/DR plan.

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Zerto

JANUARY 23, 2025

Recovering the virtual instances that make up your applications from the cloud is an essential part of modern business continuity strategies. Using cloud disaster recovery services, organizations can quickly restore critical workloads, applications, and databases to resume operations. What is a cloud recovery site?

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

An IT disaster that leaves an organization without its data and applications can be crippling, if not fatal. The world has become increasingly reliant on access to data and digital services, and prolonged outages may cost your organization lost business, impaired productivity and irreparable reputation damage.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

IT resilience refers to the ability to continuously keep essential IT systems and applications up and running despite disasters and disruptions. Without IT resilience, most businesses will be unable to maintain critical business functions when faced with disruptive events like cyberattacks, fires, natural disasters, etc.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

Using a backup and restore strategy will safeguard applications and data against large-scale events as a cost-effective solution, but will result in longer downtimes and greater loss of data in the event of a disaster as compared to other strategies as shown in Figure 1. The application diagram presented in Figures 2.1

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Zerto

APRIL 13, 2023

In this post, we start by discussing the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters. We’ll cover the threats against applications running as Kubernetes clusters and how Zerto for Kubernetes and its one-to-many replication functionality protects against them. They’re managed by the Kubernetes control plane.

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Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

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. . Alternatively, shut down application servers and stop remote database access. . Re-enable full access to the database and application.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2021

IT pros and organizations are starting to realize the importance of protecting their Kubernetes applications. Containers and cloud-native workloads are not immune from disruptive events and data loss. This includes human errors, outages, but most importantly: ransomware. . New capabilities include: . and Rook Ceph .

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. A good BC strategy can help you swiftly recover your critical business processes in the event of a disruption, identify gaps that need to be remediated, and determine what training is necessary.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Cyber resilience refers to an organization’s capacity to sustain operations and continue delivering to customers during a critical cyber event, whether it’s an internal disruption or an external threat. Adaptability and agility are key components of cyber resilience, allowing businesses to respond effectively to such events.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If you’ve suffered a breach, outage, or attack, there’s one thing you should have completed and ready to go: a staged recovery environment (SRE). This should be set up in advance, tested, and in a ready state to be transitioned into quickly after an event. To stage and orchestrate the reintroduction of critical applications.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 8, 2025

Cloud hosting means placing compute resourcessuch as storage, applications, processing, and virtualizationin multi-tenancy third-party data centers that are accessed through the public internet. Service providers offer resources such as applications, compute, and storage through free or pay-per-usage models. What Is Cloud Storage?

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VOX Veritas

MARCH 15, 2018

What really happens when the cloud goes down and how do you protect your critical business applications in such an event? Learn about the anatomy of a cloud outage and best practices to help your business ensure maximum uptime against all odds.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

Educators need their applications available to reliably teach to our children, while constituents need access to emergency, financial and social services in their most critical time of need. An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . Seeding and reseeding times can be drastically minimized.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In an age when ransomware attacks are common occurrences, simply having your systems, applications, and data backed up is not enough to ensure your organization is able to recover from a disaster. Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. As a result, they aren’t able to recover as fast as needed.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

No application is safe from ransomware. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers. Refactoring” an application means breaking it down into many different “services” which can be deployed and operated independently.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Simple Regional failover scenario using Route 53 Application Recovery Controller.

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Disaster Recovery Failover Outage Application 78

PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2024

Using an automation orchestration tool to enable event-driven automation, organisations can empower on-call responders with immediate access to automated runbooks, personally crafted by subject matter experts. They can do this by having automation orchestration capability that is event-driven, where the event in question is the incident.

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Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Data backup is the process after a data loss event of duplicating data to facilitate retrieval of the duplicate set Duplicating data in order to recover the duplicate set following a data loss incident. They guarantee that data is secure and that essential information is safe in the event of a natural disaster, theft, or other emergency.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Understanding the “Essential Eight” The Essential Eight comprises crucial mitigation strategies, including patching applications and operating systems, implementing multi-factor authentication, restricting administrative privileges, employing application control, and ensuring regular backups.

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Cybersecurity Resilience Backup Disaster Recovery 75

Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), As such, you need a data protection management and recovery solution that seamlessly protects your data and workloads across multiple solutions, applications, and environments. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

As a refresher from previous blogs, our example ecommerce company’s “Shoppers” application runs in the cloud. It is a monolithic application (application server and web server) that runs on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The monolith application is tightly coupled with the database.

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LogisManager

JULY 22, 2021

Their process for developing and updating their BCP initially involved holding in-person interviews with department heads to gather information about various impacts to their core processes in case of an outage: Who are their key team members? What vendors or applications do they rely on? What are their workaround processes?

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll also share some ideas on how you can ensure that your documentation is not simply window dressing but is a real aid that can improve your company’s ability to recover in the event of a disruption. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Common Mistake No.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Surging ransomware threats elevate the importance of data privacy and protection through capabilities such as encryption and data immutability in object storage – capabilities that protect sensitive data and enable teams to get back to business fast in the event of such an attack.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Today’s organizations are using and creating more data from applications, databases, sensors, as well as other sources. Not all data is equal: When a disaster strikes, there are certain sets of data and applications the business needs to get back up and running. We are data dependent: The business environment has become data-centric.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This is particularly useful for disaster recovery, enabling rapid spin-up of infrastructure in response to an outage or disaster. This allows customers to seamlessly move applications and data across hybrid environments without refactoring, enabling true hybrid cloud deployment. Azure or AWS).

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. It is a strategy designed to help businesses continue operating with minimal disruption during a disruptive event. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. RPOs establish how much data an organization can stand to lose in the event of a disaster. Incompatible Infrastructure.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 2, 2021

Application restoration priorities or tiers should be well-defined so that business units know the timeline for restoring applications and there are no surprises. Without these services, other business applications can’t come back online or function correctly. Or 10 hours?” If we are under attack, how will we communicate?

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Acronis

MAY 10, 2023

Many IT teams and companies think they’re successfully backing up their data and applications, only to have unpleasant surprises in the case of a malware attack, outage or other event. To overcome these challenges, you need to make sure you’re verifying that your backups are working exactly how you think they should.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether it’s supplier challenges, extreme weather, an unplanned outage, or an increased threat of cyberattacks, it seems the next disruption is just around the corner. What happens when a hurricane causes damage to an entire region, causing several sites to go down along with unplanned network outages? Generate Response.

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Zerto

JULY 18, 2024

In the realm of uncertainty around cyber threats and other unplanned outages, disaster recovery (DR) testing stands as a crucial pillar. DR testing additionally ensures organizations are as prepared as they can be to enable the swift restoration and safety of data and applications in the face of unforeseen events.

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Disaster Recovery Application Outage Business Continuity 59

everbridge

MARCH 7, 2022

Regardless of the actual figure, time really is money, so organizations must be proactive in setting themselves up for successful recovery in the event of a disaster. A BC program encompasses multiple plans to maintain business operations before, during, and after an event. CASE STUDY: IMPROVING DISASTER RECOVERY.

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Disaster Recovery Continuity Planning Business Continuity Crisis Management 72

Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Move any workload seamlessly, including BC/DR, migration to new hardware, or application consolidation. FlashArray ActiveWorkload Launched— ActiveWorkload brings non-disruptive workload migrations to FlashArray.

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