Disaster recovery (DR) in IT refers to the process and strategies put in place to restore IT systems and services following a disruptive event. It is important to remember that DR is far more than a high availability (HA) strategy. DR is a key part of responding to events from natural disasters to human-made incidents such as cyberattacks, hardware failures, or power outages. The goal of disaster recovery is to minimize downtime, recover data, and restore critical IT functions swiftly to ensure business continuity.
DR is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure planning and management, ensuring that organizations can recover swiftly from disruptive events and maintain business continuity in the face of adversity. The choice of DR products and technologies depends on specific business requirements, budget constraints, and the level of protection needed for critical IT systems and data.
R2i can help you with your DR plan by:
Choosing your Replication Tools: Replication technologies such as VMware, Zerto, Veeam Backup & Replication, and QuickEDD software or hardware based SAN to SAN replication, create redundant copies of IT systems and data in real-time or at scheduled intervals. This allows for rapid failover to secondary systems in the event of a primary system failure. Having the correct replication tools in place is foundational to your entire DR strategy, and R2i can ensure you have the best option for your system.
Transitioning to Cloud-Based DR Services: R2i’s Cloud offers disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) for our cloud customers, allowing organizations to replicate and recover critical systems and data extremely quickly. In some cases, R2i can also reserve computing resources for companies who have their computing resources on prem, but who have backups in the R2i cloud, also giving them a DR capability as well.
Choosing your DR Testing Tools: A DR plan is only as good as its last test. R2i can assist you in establishing a DR test strategy on your premise and as part of the R2i Edwin Cloud.
As important as it is, preparing for a disaster is only half the story. Given the prevalence of cybercrime, a cyber disaster is far more likely to occur than a natural disaster and recovering from it is often far more complex.
In a natural disaster, you know what systems and data have been affected and what data and resources are required to restore your business. In a cyberattack, in most cases you don’t know what resources have been compromised, and which data backups are clean and available to help you recover.
R2i can assist you with your cyber resilience recovery strategy as well as your DR strategy. Trust this essential and complicated aspect of disaster recovery to our cyber resilience specialists.
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