This is where disaster recovery (DR) comes in. Regardless of your business environment – physical, virtual, or cloud-based – we’ll outline how you can craft a well-defined DR plan to ensure you can bounce back quickly from disruptions, and minimize downtime and its associated costs.
Unplanned downtime causes significant financial impact in multiple areas of a business. This leads to:
Beyond the immediate financial hit, as revealed by a Gartner study, downtime inflicts long-term damage on your reputation. This is why a proactive and robust DR strategy is essential to significantly reduce the risks associated with outages.
An effective DR plan goes beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. It hinges on two key elements: prioritizing critical business functions and carefully assessing them. When conducting this assessment, consider classifying your workloads into three tiers.
Categorizing applications allows you to tailor an effective DR strategy. This ensures you focus resources and recovery plans on the most critical applications, enabling a faster and more efficient overall recovery.
Powering public cloud providers such as AWS and Azure, Nutanix offers reliable DR solutions for business continuity. It’s not just limited to cloud-based applications, though, as this solution is also applicable to both physical and virtual business environments.
Cloud DR solutions offer seamless integration with virtual environments. This means your virtual machines (VMs) can be easily replicated and activated in the cloud during a disaster. This ensures a swift recovery of your applications and data.
For physical environments, cloud DR utilizes software agents installed on physical servers. These agents continuously replicate server data to the cloud, guaranteeing a recent copy is always available for restoration in case of an outage at your physical location.
Some cloud providers even offer bare metal recovery options. This allows you to recover your physical servers onto virtual machines (VMs) hosted in the cloud. This approach is flexible and gets your physical systems back online faster.
Regardless of the business environment, cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) offers several advantages that transform your strategy:
Overall, cloud DR offers a versatile solution for protecting both physical, virtual, and cloud-based business environments. It simplifies DR management, reduces costs, and ensures faster recovery times during disruptions.
Nutanix, through Nutanix Clusters and Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2), is a terrific option for disaster recovery because it offers several advantages over other cloud providers. Nutanix Clusters is the core offering that provides an on-premise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution combining computing, storage, and virtualization.
Meanwhile, NC2 allows you to run Nutanix Clusters not just on-site, but also in the cloud, with consistent management experience across both environments. This lets you leverage the familiar Nutanix functionality even when expanding your infrastructure to the public cloud.
The benefits of utilizing both Nutanix Clusters and NC2 are:
While cloud resources like Nutanix can be a powerful DR tool, a successful plan requires more than just the adoption of technology. Each organization should also consider the following best practices:
Recent outages highlight the importance of protecting your business and data. Cloud-based DR tools offer significant benefits, but they are most effective when paired with meticulous planning.
WEI understands that an effective DR strategy requires a solid foundation as our team simplifies cloud DR. We tailor solutions that seamlessly integrate with your existing infrastructure, handling the intricate setup process for a smooth transition. Our services also extend beyond DR to cover VDI, data center modernization, and more.
WEI's deep technical bench is equipped to assess your specific requirements and assist you in choosing the optimal solution from our diverse cloud DR portfolio. Contact us today to schedule a consultation with our experts and ensure business continuity in the face of any unforeseen disruption.
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