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How an insurance company implements disaster recovery of 3-tier applications

AWS Disaster Recovery

It also accounts for the incidence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods and technical failures, such as power failure or network connectivity. AWS recommends a multi-AZ strategy for high availability and a multi-Region strategy for disaster recovery. Failover Our customer decided to test the Pilot Light scenario.

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Creating an organizational multi-Region failover strategy

AWS Disaster Recovery

However, applications typically don’t operate in isolation; consider both the components you will use and their dependencies as part of your failover strategy. Because of this, you should develop an organizational multi-Region failover strategy that provides the necessary coordination and consistency to make your approach successful.

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Considerations for Disaster Recovery – Part 2: Compute

Zerto

Disasters are unpredictable, but your response to them shouldn’t be. A well-thought-out disaster recovery (DR) plan is your best defense against unexpected disruptions. Invest in Reliability : Opt for compute resources that offer high availability and redundancy to minimize the risk of downtime during a disaster.

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The Evolving Relationship Between Backup and Disaster Recovery

Zerto

Then it also became apparent that a backup should probably be stored somewhere other than where the primary data was, just in case a disaster of some kind might affect both copies of data in the same location. The need for a safe backup copy was the birth of disaster recovery in IT.

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Failover vs. Failback: What’s the Difference? 

Pure Storage

Failover vs. Failback: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different.

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Failover vs. Failback: What’s the Difference? 

Pure Storage

Failover vs. Failback: What’s the Difference? by Pure Storage Blog A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different.

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The State of DR and Cyber Recovery – Part 2: Top Disaster Recovery Challenges and Strategies for Success

Zerto

In this post, the second in a series of three that explores insights from the IDC white paper sponsored by Zerto, we’ll focus on the top disaster recovery challenges organizations face, and how to address them. How Zerto Addresses Top Disaster Recovery Challenges 1.