When it comes to mission critical applications, most organizations count on high availability products to protect their mission critical applications. It looks like this; the mission critical application is mirrored or clustered. It is then backed up and in some way and replicated off-site. The problem is this is a stand-alone process from the standard data protection process and it is very expensive.
There is a feature that is becoming increasingly common in backup software solutions that we at Storage Switzerland call recovery in place, vendor terms are instant recovery and live recovery. This feature works first by the software doing incremental backups of the servers/virtual machines being protected, then when a recovery needs to happen the software can instantiate a virtual version of the volume on backup storage.
In this ChalkTalk Video we compare instant recovery to other high availability options.
George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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