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. An effective IT resilience strategy focuses on delivering an ‘always-on’ customer experience regardless of unplanned outages and changes to IT infrastructure. What Is IT Resilience?

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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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AWS Disaster Recovery

MARCH 10, 2023

Let’s explore an application that processes payment transactions and is modernized to utilize managed services in the AWS Cloud, as in Figure 2. Warm standby with managed services Let’s cover each of the components of this application, as well as how managed services behave in a multisite environment.

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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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Solutions Review

JULY 26, 2022

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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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Despite the added complexity of running different workloads in different clouds, a multicloud model will enable companies to choose cloud offerings that are best suited to their individual application environments, availability needs, and business requirements. ” Companies Will Reconsider On-Prem Data Centers in Favor of Cloud.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Here, we delve into HA and DR, the dynamic duo of application resilience. High Availability is the ability of an application to continue to serve clients who are requesting access to its services. There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active.

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Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

But having control when it’s spread across hundreds of different applications both internal and external and across various cloud platforms is a whole other matter. . The problem is that most businesses don’t know how to protect their containerized applications. According to Cybersecurity Insiders’ 2022 Cloud Security Report : .

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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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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. When using an off-site secondary server, your RTO will be restricted to the amount of time it takes to failover from one server to the other.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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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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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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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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs. Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. This dependence has brought risk. How should a team handle an incident that lies with an upstream provider?

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Pure Storage

JULY 5, 2023

Part 1 :  Configure ActiveDR and protect your DB volumes (why & how) Part 2 :  Accessing the DB volumes at the DR site and opening the database Part 3 :  Non-disruptive DR drills with some simple scripting Part 4 :  Controlled and emergency failovers/failbacks In Part 1, we learned how to configure ActiveDR™. Promote the Oracle-DR pod.

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Zerto

JANUARY 16, 2025

Recovery Time Objective (RTO): Measures the time it takes to restore applications, services, and systems after a disruption. Redundancy ensures resilience by maintaining connectivity during outages. BGP, OSPF), and automatic failover mechanisms to enable uninterrupted communication and data flow.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 2, 2022

Synchronous replication is mainly used for high-end transactional applications that require instant failover if the primary node fails. If there’s an accident or outage, then transactions and data that aren’t replicated at the time of the incident will be lost, and data in secondary storage may not always be current.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

These capabilities facilitate the automation of moving critical data to online and offline storage, and creating comprehensive strategies for valuing, cataloging, and protecting data from application errors, user errors, malware, virus attacks, outages, machine failure, and other disruptions. The Best Data Protection Software.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

As generative AI applications like chatbots become more pervasive, companies will train them on their troves of internal data, unlocking even more value from previously untapped information. The result is that large sections of corporate datasets are now created by SaaS applications.

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Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It’s likely that your IT environment changes often during the year as you add or upgrade applications, platforms, and infrastructure. Instead, you may be able to run a test on the recovery of an individual application once a week or every other week. How the Zerto Platform Can Help with Disaster Recovery Testing.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Customers only pay for resources when needed, such as during a failover or DR testing. This is particularly useful for disaster recovery, enabling rapid spin-up of infrastructure in response to an outage or disaster. JetStream replicates VMs and data into blobs, and compute resources (hosts) can be allocated on demand on failover.

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FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

IT organizations have mainly focused on physical disaster recovery - how easily can we failover to our DR site if our primary site is unavailable. First, which is much more easily obtained, is to host some applications in one cloud platform and other applications in another cloud platform.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

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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Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

And many have chosen MySQL for their production environments for a variety of use cases, including as a relational database or as a component of the LAMP web application stack. But, because database applications like MySQL can be particularly demanding, it’s important to ensure the right resources are allocated to each virtual machine.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

You also need various applications to connect with your customers, vendors, and employees. They can set up automated failovers that will automatically shift workloads from one server or data center to another in case the main one fails or crashes unexpectedly. For one, you need technology to be able to manage your operations with ease.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

References to Runbooks detailing all applicable procedures step-by-step, with checklists and flow diagrams. RTOs and RPOs guide the rest of the DR planning process as well as the choice of recovery technologies, failover options, and data backup platforms. References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

The cloud providers have no knowledge of your applications or their KPIs. Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. This dependence has brought risk. How should a team handle an incident that lies with an upstream provider?

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Pure Storage

JUNE 29, 2023

This key design difference makes them well-suited to very different business functions, applications, and programs. Flash storage can offer an affordable and highly consistent storage solution for relational databases as they grow and support more cloud-based modern applications’ persistent storage needs. Efficiency. Consistency.

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PagerDuty

JUNE 26, 2024

Alternatively, firms could manually disable a machine or application or create a PagerDuty test incident to trigger an outage and then practice their response procedures. Incident simulation : Practice, practice, practice! PagerDuty Automation capabilities could be used to initiate a simulated incident.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Application: Predictive analytics enables organizations to rapidly assess risks and proactively implement measures to mitigate the impact of potential disruptions. Application: In the event of a cybersecurity breach, AI automates the identification, containment, and eradication of threats, reducing response time.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. How to Build Resilience against the Risks of Operational Complexity Mitigation: Adopt a well-defined cloud strategy that accounts for redundancy and failover mechanisms.

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Zerto

JUNE 14, 2023

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, empowers customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Users can now easily protect workloads between regions within Azure for in-cloud protection against regional outages and other disruptions like cyberattacks.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Zerto In-Cloud for AWS brings reliability and speed to the protection of enterprise AWS applications with simple automated workflows for failover, recovery, and testing. Get Zerto In-Cloud for AWS on the AWS Marketplace today.

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Solutions Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Traditionally, IT departments were built around specialized experts who each mastered their distinct domains—networking, storage, applications, or security. Storage I/O and Utilization : Cloud-based storage often operates under shared infrastructure, where multiple users or applications can affect performance.

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