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Saturday, May 05, 2018
Tailored IT Solutions For Disaster Recovery ARE Possible...You Just Need To Know Where To Look
- Integrated with NaviSite’s VMware vCloud Director-based cloud and your existing vCenter interface.
- Connects securely without a VPN or special network connectivity.
- Fast RTO in as little as 5 minutes, RPO is as little as 15 minutes.
- Cost effective usage-based pricing, and licenses included.
SAMPLE BUYER/USER PERSONAS
Labels: Data Backup, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Plan, Navisite, Vmware
Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Data Protection And Recovery....How To Get It Right
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO) - How much data are you prepared to lose or can you lose?
- Recovery Time Objective (RTO) - How long are you prepared to wait or can you wait to have it?
- Do I have gear on which to reinstall OS and Applications?
- Do I have a place to house the DR gear?
- Are all configurations documented?
BASIC CONSIDERATIONS OF BACKUP
- Back up things that matter
- Back up things that change
- Hourly? Daily? Weekly? Monthly?
- Full backups? Incremental backups?
- Retention schedule
- On-site? Off-site? Disk? Tape?
THE BASICS OF DSAAR
- Best practice is to identify the workloads that are most important to shaping cost
- Complete DR strategy may have several components for different RTO and RPO
- Do a Business Impact Analysis to identify what is most tied to critical business functions
- Document the needed boot order to most quickly get workloads back online
- Test the strategy!
Labels: Data, Data Backup, Data Management, Data Protection, Data Recovery, Data Storage, DRaaS