01-06-2021

Automate your DR process – Hints and Tips

Nikos Anagnostopoulos

In today’s always-on world where organizations may be negatively impacted by ransomware, cyber-attacks, IT disruptions, natural disasters and more, a confident, modern and unified approach to data protection is required across the entire digital business landscape.

Accutech believes that business resilience needs to:

  • Reduce human error and manual processes with automation and orchestration
  • Protect all your application workloads, regardless of their location
  • Increase productivity with a unified management console
  • Identify risk quickly—both for today and in the future

After considering a lot of different strategies and approaches on how to automate Disaster Recovery processes, we saw an opportunity on investing once again on one of our trusted partners Veritas and its resiliency Platform.

We need a modern solution that delivers simplicity and ease of use with a unified management console spanning on-premises and cloud environments. Centralized management has been proven to increase staff productivity and begin to break down silos within organizations.

We can tailor the view across global environments by application, virtual machine, resiliency group and business service. From the centralized console, you can:

  • Create and manage resiliency components
  • Generate reports
  • Create and manage tasks using built-in task automation
  • Conduct rehearsals
  • Perform migration, takeover and evacuation processes
  • Use built-in reports to stay informed on inventory and resilience operations and identify risks

Also, the need for Disaster Recovery in the cloud is covered by having orchestrated, automated, at-scale disaster recovery to the cloud, multi-SLO compliance for complex multi-tiered applications. Last but not least, have ransomware protection with point-in-time recovery and with near-zero RPO.

Nevertheless compliance and performance work as a team and our customers needed to:

  • Ensure compliance with the most stringent SLAs via audit reports and nondisruptive recovery rehearsals
  • Meet all Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs)
  • Reduce CapEx and TCO while maintaining visibility into recovery readiness