Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many are asking why the airline didn’t have backup systems, where their planning for this type of event was and why the plan hadn’t been exercised, as this would have greatly improved their response. When you run your operations at near capacity, the disruption has a long tail of knock-on effects.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Having a robust data protection and recovery strategy based on backup and recovery is the first step toward ensuring IT resilience. An effective IT resilience strategy focuses on delivering an ‘always-on’ customer experience regardless of unplanned outages and changes to IT infrastructure.

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Resilience Cyber Resilience Outage Failover 98

MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Capacity limitations. We often see that efforts to recover critical apps are derailed by limitations in computing or storage capacity. In today’s environment, you cannot just go out and buy capacity. Sorting out such problems can take hours if not days, an expensive proposition if the issue is prolonging an outage.

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Vulnerability Outage Capacity BCM 98

Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

About FlashBlade//E FlashBlade//E is a new all-flash capacity-optimized unified file and object storage platform from Pure Storage. Our versatile solutions go beyond just backup and recovery, making your data management more efficient and reducing business risks. Everything else, while important, can wait till the lights are back on.

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Sports Backup Resilience Application 116

Pure Storage

AUGUST 25, 2023

Data Backup and Recovery Data backup and recovery is an essential aspect of managing data. Automation technologies allow you to set appropriate backup schedules, restore files and folders quickly, and provide better control over the backup and recovery processes.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 17, 2021

Data center outages come in many forms and often occur at the most unfortunate of times. Discover why the data protection landscape is under greater pressure than ever before with rising demand for data storage capacity, decreased tolerance for downtime, and heightened security concerns. The advantages of flash in backup and recovery.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Internet Outage 94

Pure Storage

JULY 1, 2024

With our backup storage platform, we were not getting the performance we were expecting. We were missing SLAs, backups were taking longer than expected, restores were taking an exorbitant amount of time.” Ark has never had a service-impacting outage with any of our Pure devices,” Josh added.

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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). You won’t use your staged recovery environment for all of your applications and data, only those that are critical to operationalize your business in a limited capacity.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 1, 2022

As companies continue to invest in digital transformation, there are several actions they should take to ensure their data is secure, one of the most important being a data backup and recovery strategy. Determine Your Backup and Recovery Needs. Understanding RPO will help determine how often to back up your data. Regulatory Compliance.

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Disaster Recovery Backup Outage Application 59

Pure Storage

MAY 18, 2022

Modern space-efficient storage infrastructure has helped reduce cost and complexity, increased availability, and provided greater capacity, allowing us to support these ever-growing data set demands. . Data Loss and Corruption. Traditional Database Recovery. These are our belts and braces (or belts and suspenders for US readers).

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Pure Storage

APRIL 13, 2022

Knowing that you have a backup in place provides peace of mind that you can keep your business moving forward. But having to wait hours, days, or—let’s face it—weeks in some cases for a backup to restore can cause significant pain to the operation of the business. So how fast is the FlashArray//C and NetBackup solution?

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IT Governance BC

JULY 30, 2024

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. million Windows devices.

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Pure Storage

JULY 14, 2022

A great way to make sure it’s protected no matter what happens is through solutions like Pure Storage ® SafeMode ™, a high-performance data protection solution built into FlashArray™ that provides secure backup of all data. PX-Backup can continually sync two FlashBlade appliances at two different data centers for immediate failover.

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Security Backup Application Government 98

IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With business growth and changes in compute infrastructures, power equipment and capacities can become out of alignment, exposing your business to huge risk. Business continuity best practices suggest that backup sites be built at physically different locations, in different seismic zones.

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KingsBridge BCP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Afford a Business Continuity Plan We recently worked with a small development company that experiences frequent power outages. They had backup batteries but did not have a generator. We calculated how much direct salary money they were losing with the power outages. The total cost was $125,000 per year!

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

. Due to COVID-19, businesses may not be operating at a normal capacity. Some may still be vacant, while others are operating at a reduced capacity or with strict COVID protocols. Your building maintenance team may be operating at a reduced capacity or solely depending on a single person. BACKUP POWER. .

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages. FlashBlade has also allowed Nissan Australia to consolidate its mainframe backups. Uptime is crucial for Kennett’s team. It’s truly revolutionary,” says Kennett.

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Manufacturing Failover Activation Backup 52

KingsBridge BCP

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We recently worked with a small development company that experiences frequent power outages. They had backup batteries but did not have a generator. We calculated how much direct salary money they were losing with the power outages. Fifty people, most of their staff, cannot continue to work without power. Not convinced?

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Therefore, if you’re designing a DR strategy to withstand events such as power outages, flooding, and other other localized disruptions, then using a Multi-AZ DR strategy within an AWS Region can provide the protection you need. If data needs to be restored from backup, this can increase the recovery point (and data loss).

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Backup 101

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

Earlier, we were able to restore from the backup but wanted to improve availability further. We built a pilot light using point-in-time backups for data stores, cross-Region Amazon RDS read replicas , cross-Region Amazon S3 replication , and AWS CloudFormation templates. Standardize observability. Related information.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 21, 2023

To create robust disaster recovery and data backup solutions, businesses need instant access to data when there’s an outage or disruption. To learn more, check out these resources: Equinix Metal and Pure Storage Solution Brief Guide to cloud adjacent data and storage Up to the contracted capacity only.

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Disaster Recovery Capacity Application Authorization 64

Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SRAM is for CPU cache, and it has much less capacity than DRAM, but SRAM stores common instructions for the CPU to support quick calculations. A computer uses secondary storage as a backup when it has no more RAM available to store data, but using virtual memory on disk is slower than loading all application data in primary storage for usage.

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Application Capacity Outage Vulnerability 52

Pure Storage

JULY 19, 2022

If you look back, the buzzwords of past VMware events were largely centered on the virtual machine (VM)—VM backup, VM recovery, VM granularity, VM insights. This provides end-to-end performance, capacity, and feature management/insights. And as it turns out, I technically can’t. Because it’s now called VMware Explore!

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Application Publishing Backup High Availability 98

Pure Storage

JUNE 5, 2024

Legacy systems will struggle to keep up with modern data demands, may not be compatible with newer apps and data formats, are prone to failure and disruption, and limit scalability since they’re designed with specific capacity limits. The hybrid IT architecture can facilitate flexibility and speed.

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Capacity Evaluation Technology Mitigation 64

Pure Storage

JUNE 30, 2022

To recognize its importance, you only need to look at the multibillion-dollar industry that has been built up around it or read the news to observe the near-daily outages of major businesses or ransoms paid to bad actors. This is a significant advancement, as the storage administrator now can choose which data receives enhanced protection.

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Disaster Recovery Mitigation Outage Capacity 52

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Since most businesses today are heavily IT reliant, DRP tends to focus on business data and information systems by addressing one or several points of failure including application downtime, network outages, hardware failure, data loss, etc. Over time, these plans can be expanded as resources, capacity, and business functionality increase.

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BCP Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Continuity Planning 97

Pure Storage

JULY 13, 2023

And it has the protective benefits of specialized cluster servers and regular backups to separate nodes or data centers. A basic approach is to use simple backups. Volume snapshots are always thin-provisioned, deduplicated, compressed, and require no snapshot capacity reservations. It can be virtualized.

High Availability 52

High Availability Disaster Recovery Failover Activation 52

Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

CIOs can use the capacity required immediately via OPEX, manage costs over time based upon discounting, and have the ability to burst into the type of high IO (a.k.a. Now is the time to leverage data protection broadly, including looking at backup and restore strategies for simple business continuity in Azure or AWS in the public cloud.

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Business Continuity Pandemic 122

Pure Storage

MAY 20, 2022

Because of the differences in structure, file storage and object storage have significantly different capacity to scale. While file storage isn’t considered extremely expensive, it can result in higher costs as you add capacity. In this article, we’ll take a look at the common differences between traditional object and file storage.

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Capacity Architecture Retail Travel 52

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

“Simple backup of data storage is no longer sufficient. Backup and DR as a service, security as a service, managed threat detection and response as well as the continued adoption of other as-a-service options that may not include a management wrap to them. ” High Availability Protection for Storage Will Become Standard.

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High Availability Backup Disaster Recovery Application 135

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. If you use SaaS, where your data is stored, and the backup arrangements are often very transparent.

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Outsourcing Backup Business Continuity Resilience 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. If you use SaaS, where your data is stored, and the backup arrangements are often very transparent.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Backup Business Continuity Resilience 52

Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2024

These facilities can better withstand environmental stresses and potential disruptions by implementing more efficient cooling systems, backup power solutions, and robust infrastructure. These facilities often incorporate advanced technologies and designs that extend the life of existing infrastructure and reduce the likelihood of outages.

Resilience 52

Resilience Architecture Technology Government 52

Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

That’s why “ resiliency ,” the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties, is key. Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. This ensures that if one component fails, there’s a backup to maintain operations. Things will go wrong.

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Resilience Vulnerability Cybersecurity Mitigation 52

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, organizations are having a one-to-one mapping between source clouds and data backup, and disaster recovery sites lead to multiple standard operating procedures and multiple points of data thefts along with inconsistent recovery SLAs.” ” “There are distinct challenges with maintaining performance at 10s of petabytes.

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High Availability Disaster Recovery Application Activation 59

AWS Disaster Recovery

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Recovering your mission-critical workloads from outages is essential for business continuity and providing services to customers with little or no interruption. Depending on the RPO and RTO of the mission-critical workload, the requirement for disaster recovery ranges from simple backup and restore, to multi-site, active-active, setup.

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Disaster Recovery Architecture Internet Outage 61