As one of the world’s most compliant cloud services, Microsoft Azure is quickly becoming the cloud infrastructure of choice for many IT professionals. Discover how we can help your business with Microsoft Azure by reading one of our recent case studies here.
Azure offers an end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution that’s simple, secure, scalable, and cost-effective and can be integrated with on-premises data protection solutions. In the case of service disruption or accidental deletion or corruption of data, recover your business services in a timely and orchestrated manner. The Azure backup and disaster recovery solution is simple to architect, cloud-native, highly available, and resilient.
Back up your data and implement a disaster recovery strategy to avoid costly business interruption
Contrary to popular belief, applications hosted in the cloud are not fool proof catastrophes happen. Since application downtime can be disastrous for your business, you need a well-defined DR strategy to be prepared to handle failures. In addition to a DR strategy that protects from catastrophic failures, you should have a backup strategy for preventing unavailability due to data corruption or application configuration.
Your Disaster Recovery strategy should clearly define the process, including which activities will be completed when the plan is triggered, and who will be responsible for executing these activities. However, a detailed Disaster Recovery strategy won’t truly help unless you test and fine-tune it regularly. Executing a regular test that restore backups in a test environment will help to avoid surprises should a disaster really happen.
Before developing a Disaster Recovery strategy, you should be clear about the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for your workloads. These are measurements for how much downtime your business can take i.e., if you need to be back up and running within 5 minutes or you can be down for longer. This also measure from what point pre recovery you will go back to once up and running.
Azure offers native capabilities built into most of its services, which can be leveraged to develop a well-rounded Disaster Recovery strategy. It is important when developing this strategy to start from the ground up (i.e., covering infrastructure, if applicable, as well as data and application layers) to develop a comprehensive solution.
The modern cloud-scale applications deployed in Azure offer multiple options for Disaster Recovery. Including end-to-end replication using Azure Site Recovery for virtual machines, leveraging CI/CD pipelines for redeployment, or the more traditional backup /restore approach for services. Including geo-redundancy, which the distribution of your data or servers across several data centres in different geographic locations. This acts as a safety net in case your site fails or in the event of a disaster or an outage that impacts an entire region.
At Everything Tech we can help advise you on the best solution for you will depending on your RPO and RTO needs.
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