Failover Outage Vulnerability 
IBM Business Resiliency
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Closely aligned with a data center strategy should be a holistic BCDR strategy that considers all types of risks (system failure, natural disaster, human error or cyberattack) and outage scenarios, and provides plans for mitigation with minimal or no impact to the business. Some of them use manual runbooks to perform failover/failbacks.
NexusTek
MAY 15, 2023
In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.
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OffsiteDataSync
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Freedom from malware and/or ransomware : Backup systems are just as vulnerable to compromise as anything else, so they be kept clean. Typically, backup systems are called into action for discrete outages. A proper DR plan does not necessarily require a hot failover site.
Pure Storage
AUGUST 30, 2023
Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats. Prioritize systems that pose the most risk due to lack of support and security vulnerabilities.
Zerto
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
The standby servers act as a ready-to-go copy of the application environment that can be a failover in case the primary (active) server becomes disconnected or is unable to service client requests. Failover is a part of the DR plan by providing both system and network-level redundancy.
Zerto
APRIL 13, 2023
These disruptions range from minor inconveniences to major outages and can have a significant impact on the availability and performance of your applications. Security vulnerabilities: Kubernetes is a complex system with many components and dependencies. But like any system, it can be subject to unplanned disruptions.
AWS Disaster Recovery
JANUARY 25, 2022
What if the very tools that we rely on for failover are themselves impacted by a DR event? In this post, you’ll learn how to reduce dependencies in your DR plan and manually control failover even if critical AWS services are disrupted. Failover plan dependencies and considerations. Let’s dig into the DR scenario in more detail.
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