Top 5 Reasons to Choose Disaster Recovery Solutions
Top management is constantly reviewing and assessing solutions that are capable of meeting all disaster recovery requirements in any large enterprise. This is because most organizations these days need to comply with almost zero downtime service criteria and having a breakdown because of any disaster will mean loss of global business opportunities. Therefore, organizations require data recovery (DR) solutions that enable recoveries from remote sites in a short period so that enterprises can optimize on cost of data recovery.
Organizations can use DR solutions that can work in tandem with the local backup done on a daily basis. There are technologies that provide continuous data protection (CDP), asynchronous replication over IP, application failover/failback, and WAN optimization by leveraging disk as the recovery media. The technologies aid in efficient capture of data for recovery purposes and immediate generation of recovery points that can effectively rewind an application to any previous point in time.
DR solutions also provide for asynchronous replications which are able to cater to short or long distance requirements over IP networks. Some of them use WAN optimization technologies that allows them to support large applications using less bandwidth. Also, in case of application failover/failback, these solutions are capable of leveraging a shared model, instead of the shared disk model in order to enable high availability for any application environment.
While assessing DR solutions, it is important assess that the solution allows them to preserve their existing investments in hardware, software, and networks as they deploy a DR solution. It should also be cross-checked if the solution is able to offer a stringent recovery point objective, recovery time objective, and meet recovery reliability requirements.
Organizations can choose centralized DR solutions which cater to backup elimination and application recovery solutions as well. By spreading backup across the day, in order to reduce impact, is one of the key points to note while selecting DR solutions. In case of application recovery, it is important to check for availability of failover/failback templates that can be used by network administrators. It is also important to check if solutions enable rapid and reliable data recovery at both the object and full system level, directly from disk whenever it is required.
As security and continuity of business is vital to any enterprise, they need to go for fully automated application recovery solutions in order to ensure a secure environment for their applications and data.
Use disaster recovery solutions to ensure continuous backup and protection to enterprise applications at all times.
