A DRaaS solution can use several methods to get data to the provider, each method directly impacts RPO and RTO. IT needs to be very careful to select the right method to meet the organization’s objectives and budget. The primary…
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Tintri Storage is DR Ready
In a recent article, my colleague George Crump discussed the need to simplify data protection (DP) and disaster recovery (DR) operations, with primary storage that is DR ready. DR ready primary storage would aid in DP and DR processes without…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DP, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, Scale-Out, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video: What is Recovery Performance Expectation
Meeting the organization’s high recovery point and recovery time expectations is no longer enough. Now organizations are beginning to pay attention to the performance of an application in its recovered state. Backup and replication applications enable secondary storage or the…
Do You Understand Your Disaster Recovery Buckets?
Disaster Recovery is a complex and fragile process. That is why it is important for IT to simplify that process as much as possible. An area where we are seeing success is how you group applications. While each application will…
StorageShort: How is the App Explosion Impacting Backup Service Levels?
Most data centers are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of applications they have to deploy, support and protect. Driving this phenomenon is the improvements in developer tools that created the whole Dev/Ops movement. While most of these apps…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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ChalkTalk Video: When Should You Use High Availability instead of Backup?
Most data centers have some sort of backup strategy where it copies data on a periodic basis, typically once per night, to a secondary storage device and then either replicated or transported to a disaster recovery site. They count on…
What is a Consistency Group?
Understanding consistency groups is essential to having a properly functioning disaster recovery process. They speak to the reality that it is not possible to recover everything at the same time. Creating recovery groups makes a recovery from a disaster much…
Can You Eliminate Downtime? – New White Paper
Achieving a zero or near-zero recovery point and recovery time objective requires planning. From a data perspective, IT needs to position the data in a ready state on the recovery system. The positioning or copying of data needs to happen either as,…
How to Avoid the Cost of Zero RPO and RTO
IT is under constant pressure to reduce recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Users and applications owners want to set these objectives at zero. While a zero RPO/RTO is a possibility the cost to get there is enormous.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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Can Your Server Survive a Fire or Flood? – ioSafe Briefing Note
My dad always said, “The best fight is one you don’t have.” In the same way, the best restore is one you never have to do. We all believe that, and we do our best to avoid every restore we…
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