"Minimize Data Loss By Restoring Access To Your Files As Quickly As Possible"
Senior Technical Consultant
SoftMark, Inc.
Disasters may come in many forms a server crash, power outage, a cut in communications cables, a fire, or natural disaster. An outage always disrupts your business, causing a loss of productivity, critical information, or worse a loss of revenue. Whatever the cause, you need to minimize data loss by restoring access to your files as quickly as possible. When downed servers are restored, their respective files need to be restored as well.
The risks and the devastating effects of disasters resulting in computer downtime are obvious and always pose a pressing issue to any business running critical applications. Business organizations demand 100% fault tolerance and continuous availability of their computing systems. Relying on traditional, full-system backups means that any critical data and transactions executed after the last system backup are lost forever. The use of traditional backups also means that data at the remote site always lags behind. The remote computers cannot be used for online production processing, and can only be utilized in a disaster recovery scenario. For this reason, these vital and expensive resources are idle while the primary computer, in many cases, is over-loaded and suffering from deteriorated performance.
What categories do your potential disasters fit into? Are they natural, man-made, or technology-driven?
In a world of real-time transactions, just-in-time inventory, and supply chain dynamics, losing a phone system may wreak more chaos than a fire in the building. Today, having a Business Continuity Plan is a necessity in the eyes of many insurers, bankers, stakeholders and regulators. Audits of those plans are becoming more commonplace and comprehensive. If you think business continuity means backing up your data and creating redundant systems, then maybe you need our help.
The challenge is to replicate files to a secondary machine, maintaining their availability and protection. If a server goes down, these files are readily accessible and end users can continue working with them.
So what can be done? The solution is backing up your critical information in real time to a remote, hot-backup module. The software solution must provide reliable, bi-directional real-time data backup and mirroring over existing Stratus networks and infrastructure. At any given time, all critical remote databases are identical to the primary database, which ensures rapid and reliable application recovery. Networked computers mirror each other providing a flexible, scaleable, load-balancing solution utilizing the full computing capacity of the hardware at both the primary and remote locations.
All this sounds simple but its not. But doing nothing about it puts your business at risk.
For more information, contact Application Resources by phone at 516-536-62000, email em@stratusoft.com , or contact your Stratus representative.
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