Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

Ensure data disaster recovery with solid business continuity and disaster recovery planning.  In today’s increasingly competitive business environment and global economy, ensuring that business critical applications and data are protected is no longer a luxury but is a necessity to survive.  Business continuity must be ensured from both local data center protection perspective as well as from a disaster recovery standpoint.  Given the high probability and variety of events that cause outages, including natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, snow storms, flooding) and man made events (power outages, terrorism, viruses) a disruption to business systems is not a question of if, but when.

While the need for protecting IT resources from disasters is a business imperative, IT managers are faced with many obstacles when developing a traditional disaster recovery plan, including:

• Traditional disaster recovery is cost prohibitive

Traditional approaches typically require identical hardware resources at the DR site from both a server and storage area network (SAN) perspective

• Traditional disaster recovery is complex and slow

Traditional methods of recovery such as tape recovery or system image recovery have a high rate of failure, impacting the ability to recover and compromising your recovery point objective (RPO), which is the amount of data loss your operation can tolerate without it being disruptive to your business.

• Traditional disaster recovery is unreliable

Complex tools and unique processes for system, application and data recovery make disaster recovery testing tedious and time-consuming, leading to infrequent or incomplete testing

Luckily new data protection technologies can help companies overcome these challenges.  In-data center protection solutions such as data de-duplication, backup to disk (B2D), virtual tape libraries (VTL), and storage level replication (snapshots, clones) allow companies to protect critical data in a much more affordable and simplified manner while reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO). 

Once data is protected locally, disaster recovery and business continuity planning needs to be undertaken.   Affordable, reliable and simplified disaster recovery is a what Sovereign Systems specializes in.  We help companies design and implement true, usable DR solutions leveraging the following technologies and approaches:

Server virtualization to abstract the hardware layer from the operating system.  Once servers are virtualized, the requirement for identical hardware and 1:1 production to DR resources is eliminated.

Storage level replication solutions for both storage area networks and network attached storage. 

Vmware’s Site Recovery Manager to integrate server virtualization with storage hardware level replication significantly simplifying and automating the disaster recovery failover, failback and testing process.

Heterogeneous storage replication and continuous data protection (CDP) technologies.  Seamlessly replicate between different hardware vendors products protecting your investment and leveraging existing resources to the fullest. 

Storage virtualization

Sovereign Systems offers an innovative design approach, backed by years of proven execution. We combine this with the most advanced disaster recovery and business continuity offerings available in the market today. We focus on architecting comprehensive in-data center protection and disaster recovery strategies that evaluate your true business drivers from a RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) perspective.

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