Do’s and Don’ts for Disaster Recovery Planning
Following these do’s and don’ts for disaster recovery planning can help ensure you create a well thought out, comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
Make US Signal's DRaaS an integral part of your DR plan, and meet your RPO and RTO requirements.
With Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), your primary production environment will be continuously replicated to a US Signal cloud environment or between two US Signal virtual data centers. When needed, a fully replicated instance of your environment can be deployed with just the click of a button.
US Signal’s DRaaS solution leverages Zerto Virtual Replication technology and is available as a fully managed or self-managed solution to fit your applications, business requirements and budget. Fully managed disaster recovery is setup, monitored and maintained by US Signal engineers and includes documented RTO and RPO SLA’s plus a full DR Playbook. Self-managed disaster recovery allows you to replicate to one or more US Signal purpose-built DRaaS clusters using our licensing or your existing perpetual enterprise licensing with Zerto.
Both options allow you to test your DR solution up to twice per year for free.
Flexible
Two management options to meet the varying business requirements and budget parameters of mission-critical and essential applications.
Efficient
Recovery of individual applications or entire data centers with the click of a button.
Compliant
Built to HIPAA and PCI standards.
Advantages
- Continuous replication and simplified fail over operations maximize application availability
- Multi-cloud replication agility simplifies workload mobility to protect, recover, and move workloads
- Reverse replication to source site during failover to maintain data synchronization
- Granular point-in-time recovery with write-order fidelity across all protected virtual machines in a single virtual protection group (VPG)
- Journal-based, continuous replication with built-in data compression reduces bandwidth needs during initial sync and for ongoing replication compared to snapshot-based solutions
- Test disaster recovery scenarios or software patches on a complete production replica without impacting production
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Disaster Recovery Plan Checklist
Use this checklist to help you assess your readiness for a disaster and your ability to continue meeting stakeholders’ needs if one strikes.
Guide to DR Planning
There’s no time like the present to get DR planning underway to help your company mitigate the effects of potential data loss and downtime. In this eBook, we’ll cover several topics you should consider when developing a DR plan.
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