Business and IT Requirements for High Availability
The primary IT concern today is to ensure that the applications and information that drive critical business processes are available when they are needed, whenever they are needed. We present a description of the required architecture and operation for an automatic failover solution, demonstrating how a solution should be carefully engineered for ease of operation and management, and most importantly – data availability.
Cost of Losing Information
The primary information management concern in the enterprise today is to ensure that the knowledge necessary to drive critical business processes is available where it needs to be, when it needs to be. The costs of failure to do this are high. A recent study of 80 large organizations by Infonetics Research found that overall downtime costs averaged an astounding 3.6% of annual revenue! In another study, Forrester estimated the average cost of downtime for e-commerce sites at $12,000 per hour -- at larger sites transactional sites such as eBay, Intel and Amazon, the costs soar to hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour.
Continuous Data Protection
Traditional backup systems provide a critical layer of insurance, but they represent all-or-nothing strategies that do not cover the minute by minute daily data writes to the disk. Continuous data protection fills in this gap by capturing changes to data while users are working and dynamically replicates to the backup server. In the event of a data interruption, administrators can automatically reconstitute the data in reverse order to a point before it was corrupted or lost.
Real-Time High Availability for Exchange, Oracle, SQL
Plenty of administrators have already implemented the basic measures of backup and recovery and shared storage, and they've either implemented clustering or rejected it as inappropriate in their environment. But none of the strategies are sufficient by themselves to protect against large-scale problems such as hurricanes, terrorist attacks, or sustained local power outages. Those technologies all suffer from a common weakness: physical proximity. So the natural question is: What next? What more can you do to protect against major interruptions or outages?
Centralised and Offsite Backup
Mitigate risk and lower costs by letting your disaster recovery replica server double as a server for performing an offsite backup. Our Assured Recovery solutions combined with state-of-the-art replication, allowing dynamic backup to be performed on an offsite replica server, using the same application-based validation procedures as would occur on the production server, without the additional costs or security risks of transporting the backup to the DR facility.
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