Why recover from disaster tend to fail?!

IT professionals know the wide range of risks to their business — operations can be disabled in the event of natural disaster, ransom-ware attack, or employee error. Those outages can strike at any time. Businesses who had disasters, found that in average, 30 percent of their servers were defective at the recovery site. The production site it’s a live organism and dynamic environment. The meaning of this is Incompatibility between sites. And that put the business at risk. Until now, there were no tools to guarantee that the recovery site will really work.  

Current recovery tests have few problems: its quiet complex, it’s a time consuming, businesses and service providers have troubles to manage it and the resources costs a lot of money. Moreover, and a yearly test is far from being enough. The only way to prepare for unknown risks, is to Identifies weaknesses in the DR plan prior to an actual disaster situation. By doing that, you will not have to deal with difficulties at disaster time. Businesses need a Thorough, frequent and automatic DR tests!

EnsureDR Guarantees That Recovery Really Works

· Recovery Faults Avoidance: It was discovered that the relation between tests and the ability to recover, is direct. The more you have tested the DR, the better your chances to recover.

· High-Speed DR Test: Thorough, frequent and automatic DR tests.

· Detailed Report by Email: RTO for every server, networking test, power-on test, application test, failover scenario test and custom tests.

· Automatic: EnsureDR tests your DR site monthly or weekly, fully automated and identifies weaknesses in the DR plan prior to an actual disaster situation. So, you don’t have to deal with difficulties at disaster time. No manual work is needed.

· Reduce Costs: No need to obtain resources to perform traditional manual test. Cut resources and time.

· Verified Recovery: EnsureDR’s mission is to guarantees that recovery really works. Given the history of disasters, both the wide range of events and the loss of money to businesses that disasters had caused, EnsureDR became to be a key factor for a DR plan to succeed.

· Support multi-DR-vendors: EnsureDR work with Double-Take, Zerto, VMware SRM and Hyper-V Replica.

· Service Providers Ready: Obviate the need to test hundreds or thousands of servers. Create different test for each group of servers. Reduce tests costs.

· RTO Ready: While no replication solution handles the recovery time, EnsureDR focus on the RTO and can tell you your actual RTO.

Given the history of disasters, both the wide range of events and the loss of money to businesses that disasters caused, it is time to face the fact that a key factor for a DR plan to succeed is the Testing & Exercising phase, which is the most important stage of business continuity planning and disaster recovery. Without rigorous disaster recovery testing and fixes of the DR plan, a false sense of security may exist. The primary reason for testing is to identify deficiencies in DR plans. Period tests present opportunities to fix problems before a disaster happens. For these reasons, testing should be done on monthly basis, and not once a year as most businesses are doing. Testing should take place during peak and non-peak periods with specific objectives. This ensures a state of readiness at all times. Information is the engine that drives your business. It’s a mission-critical resource that requires information availability solutions from a proven solution. You need availability that works.