Breaking Four Lies in Automated Disaster Recovery: Hurricane Sandy Warning

 & Nbsp  In the months following Hurricane Sandy, all aspects of disaster recovery (DR) planning in the United States were widely reported by the media and became a central topic of discussion among IT administrators. Every enterprise realizes that it should do a good job of DR planning to deal with actual natural disasters and human errors, malicious behavior, and equipment failures that can lead to IT collapse, just like natural disasters. Disaster recovery, data protection, and related auxiliary work have become critical tasks that IT administrators must complete 24/7 throughout the year. In fact, data center managers now understand that they cannot only consider protecting and backing up data, but also need to consider protecting all the IT services that the business relies on. The difficulty lies in how to successfully implement disaster recovery in today's increasingly complex environment, as traditional data protection methods are simply unable to cope with the large-scale data growth of enterprises< Br/>&Emsp& Emsp; Disaster recovery policies for any data center
&Emsp& Emsp; The complexity of today's data centers makes time urgent, and this trend is becoming increasingly severe. Disaster recovery is the most time-consuming process within a data center, often pushed to the bottom of the daily IT priority list. Due to the increasing number of end-user requests and other daily projects that data center managers need to handle, it is understandable that they will not focus on less urgent prevention processes. However, just as we all have family policies to protect us from unexpected events, data centers must use disaster recovery plans to play the same role. Disaster recovery is an IT insurance plan that protects data, applications, systems, and infrastructure, which constitute critical IT services for operating businesses< Br/>&Emsp& Emsp; In short, disaster recovery is the key to continuous business operations. If a data center fails, it may cause millions of dollars in losses to the company. This loss manifests as a decrease in productivity, damage to company reputation, and other impacts. Most companies claim that they cannot afford to sustain downtime of more than four hours, as it would result in significant losses. IT administrators are too aware of this pressure, so when an interruption occurs, they will race against time to execute a series of necessary steps to restore normal operation, which are both complex and urgent< Br/>&Emsp& Emsp; So, how can IT department leaders alleviate stress after a disaster and restore business operations faster? How can a data center manager ensure that their IT insurance plan is adequately covered? The answer is to correctly plan, test, and implement disaster recovery plans and solutions designed specifically for today's complex data-intensive environments. In the past, too many disaster recovery plans failed due to incorrect execution, traditional data protection technologies were unable to scale to protect IT services, and these plans were not fully tested. Automated disaster recovery can address the shortcomings of traditional data protection technologies. After using disaster recovery, companies can recover their systems within minutes with minimal manual operations,