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How Pure Protect //DRaaS Shields Your Business from Natural Disasters 

Pure Storage

Fast failover and minimal downtime: One of the key benefits of Pure Protect //DRaaS is its rapid failover capability. Texas winter storm (2021): An energy company in Texas maintained critical operations by using remote data centers and cloud services to ensure data availability despite local power outages.

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Considerations for Disaster Recovery – Part 3: Networking

Zerto

Redundancy ensures resilience by maintaining connectivity during outages. BGP, OSPF), and automatic failover mechanisms to enable uninterrupted communication and data flow. Equip the team with advanced monitoring tools, automated failover systems, and cloud-based collaboration platforms.

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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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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish. Machines do not have hubris.

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Can Your Disaster Recovery Keep Up? Part 1 – The Need for Speed

Zerto

Weve all been there: watching the dreaded spinning wheel during the climax of a video, stuck at an airport gate as flight delays ripple across the screens, or worse, during an emergency, facing system outages when we need them most. Simplifying failover: Our automated processes reduce complexity so you can focus on getting back to business.

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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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Downtime Will Cost You: Why DRaaS Is No Longer Optional

Pure Storage

These figures highlight the escalating financial risks associated with system outages, underscoring the importance of robust disaster recovery solutions like disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to mitigate potential losses. Look for providers that offer automated, regular testing capabilities that simulate failover scenarios.