Planning, designing and implementing a disaster recovery solution to reduce the amount of recovery time needed after a system outage is a pressing requirement for all businesses. IT managers protect themselves from disasters by replicating data to a backup system that takes over when the production system fails. But what if the production system isn’t dead, just sick? Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rich Krause explores the analogy of health insurance versus life insurance within the data recovery environment, discussing the limitations of traditional backup solutions with today’s high availability and continuous data protection alternatives.
– When evaluating disaster recovery (DR) technologies, tactics and processes, organizations often perceive the investment as analogous to a life insurance policy: DR will allow the company to get back on its feet if a disaster strikes its primary data center. The analogy is not entirely wrong. After a…