If you run critical applications on desktops, physical servers, or on the cloud, this article is for you. We aim to emphasize the importance of identifying high availability applications and deploying the correct technology to set up, manage, and secure them thus preventing the cost of application downtime.
If you run critical applications on desktops, physical servers, or on the cloud, this article is for you. We aim to emphasize the importance of identifying high availability applications and deploying the correct technology to set up, manage, and secure them thus preventing the cost of application downtime.
Cloud service providers such as ourselves replicate your entire primary production site including files, applications, physical and virtual machines to our offsite data center. This means that in an offsite location, a virtual replica of your entire production site is available with all preceding changes being replicated in real-time or in periodic snapshots.
As mentioned above, traditional DR is an expensive strategy that is not common among businesses today. However, some organizations that would rather not have cloud-based disaster recovery run various setups that derive a similar concept as that of traditional DR setups and the various types of secondary DR sites involved. They include;
In my opinion, all data flowing through an organization is critical. Organizations must therefore first consider how much downtime they can endure before it begins to impact the business negatively. Also known as the Recovery Time Objective (RTO).
