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Failover: What It Is and Its Importance in Business Continuity

Unitrends

Have you ever thought about what a disaster might look like to your business without the ability to failover? Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation.

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Two Outages in Two Weeks? Get DR for AWS

Zerto

Give your organization the gift of Zerto In-Cloud DR before the next outage . But I am not clairvoyant, and even I could not have predicted two AWS outages in the time since then. On December 7, 2021, a major outage in the form of a DNS disruption in the North Virginia AWS region disrupted many online services.

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CrowdStrike Outage: A Stark Reminder about IT Updates

Zerto

This caused a major outage in many sectors, including transportation, and CrowdStrike customers scrambled to roll back their systems or implement a workaround to restore systems to working order. We cannot prevent 100% of outages, but collectively we can prevent most and mitigate the impact of those that occur.

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Myth vs. Reality: Lessons in Reliability from the July 19 Outage by Paula Thrasher

PagerDuty

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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Myth vs. Reality: Lessons in Reliability from the July 19 Outage by Paula Thrasher

PagerDuty

There was clearly a big outage and I quickly checked our systems at PagerDuty. Major outages happen multiple times per year, so frequently that we have an internal dashboard (colloquially referred to as “the internets are broken”). His team had just started implementing AIOps when the outage hit.

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Failover: What It Is and Its Importance in Business Continuity

Unitrends

Have you ever thought about what a disaster might look like to your business without the ability to failover? Ransomware, hurricanes, floods, hardware failure, file corruption, human error and dozens of other disasters can bring business productivity to a standstill if your organization is not equipped to handle an outage situation.

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

AWS Disaster Recovery

This design needs to keep costs at a minimum, and it needs to allow for failure detection and manual failover of resources. The solution Amazon Route53 Application Recovery Controller (Route53 ARC) helps manage and orchestrate application failover and recovery across multiple AWS Regions or on-premises environments.