Disaster Recovery Solutions For Any Sized Organization
In today's world having an effective data backup and disaster recovery solution in place can be the difference between a business with a bright future and one that closes up shop. We understands the needs of organizations of all sizes when it comes to disaster recovery and provides technology to ensure businesses continue to operate with minimal interruption.Disaster Recovery Solutions address both physical and virtual environments ensuring critical data, applications, and complete systems are protected no matter what. This reduces the complexity of managing heterogeneous server and storage platforms, reduces the costs of building and managing the disaster recovery infrastructure, and provides a single console to recover from in the event of a disaster.
Disasters can be classified into two broad categories. The first is natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes. While preventing a natural disaster is very difficult, measures such as good planning which includes mitigation measures can help reduce or avoid losses. The second category is man made disasters. These include hazardous material spills, infrastructure failure, or bio-terrorism. In these instances surveillance and mitigation planning are invaluable towards avoiding or lessening losses from these events.
Some of the most common strategies for data protection include:
- backups made to tape and sent off-site at regular intervals
- backups made to disk on-site and automatically copied to off-site disk, or made directly to off-site disk
- replication of data to an off-site location, which overcomes the need to restore the data (only the systems then need to be restored or synchronized), often making use of storage area network (SAN) technology
- Hybrid Cloud solutions that replicate to both on-site 'appliances' and off-site data centers. These solutions provide the ability to instantly fail-over to local on-site hardware, but in the event of a physical disaster, servers can be brought up in the cloud data centers as well. Two such examples are Quorom or EverSafe.
- the use of high availability systems which keep both the data and system replicated off-site, enabling continuous access to systems and data, even after a disaster (often associated with cloud storage)