Disaster Recovery

With the increasing use of IT to support daily business processes, the reliability and availability of the IT based systems, becomes more and more important. This includes the customer requirements to assure the operation of applications within defined time frames. With applications needed on a 24 hr x 7 day basis, maintenance windows need to be considered. Such business critical applications where downtime can affect the business will require maximum availability and short restart times. In addition life-cycle management is required to protect against failures and the damage that may be caused to user data. This will require well planned backup, spare system redundancy, effective testing environments, as ell as support agreements with the manufacturers of the hardware and software being use.

Even with the best preparation, like well trained Backup/Restore data center managers, your IT is not automatically immune to external hazards. Even predictable activities such as power outages can lead to considerable problems. So how much more is this the case, with events that are harder to predict?

Server failures can often be quickly solved, thanks to the use of virtualization technology. A “worst case” situation, like a failure in the
central data store will be highlighted due to the many applications that can be affected. But solving the resulting problems may require external (service) support and a full data restore. Such downtime and its impact may take several days to reconcile, while the hardware itself may have been quickly repaired.

For improved business continuity, a higher level of availability can be achieved by storing data in two locations.To better protect against such serious failures and to minimize necessary restore times and administrator effort, data duplication to a second storage system has become standard for many large customers. This is because the costs associated with the failure of a single storage system can be significantly more than the cost of an additional storage system and data duplication.

Our solution?

Mojit keeps implementing and recomending vmWare Site Recovery Manager,  Discover the industry-leading disaster recovery software to enable application availability and mobility across sites in private cloud environments with policy-based management, non-disruptive testing and automated orchestration. For further reading please visit VMWare website.