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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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Introducing Pure Protect //Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Pure Storage

Introducing Pure Protect //Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) by Pure Storage Blog In today’s unpredictable world, natural disasters are ramping up in both frequency and intensity. Combatting these various threats and disasters can lead to complex solutions and costly applications that only solve part of the problem.

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Rethinking Disaster Recovery with Simplicity Part 1 of 3

Pure Storage

In a previous blog post on business continuity and disaster recovery (DR), we shared how the City of New Orleans adopted ActiveDR™ for their DR requirements and realized impactful business results through its simplicity and innovation. But disaster recovery doesn’t need to be a complicated use case.

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part I: Strategies for Recovery in the Cloud

AWS Disaster Recovery

Ultimately, any event that prevents a workload or system from fulfilling its business objectives in its primary location is classified a disaster. This blog post shows how to architect for disaster recovery (DR) , which is the process of preparing for and recovering from a disaster. DR objectives. Related information.