simpleSAN
Disaster Recovery! DR
Plan: A firm, confirmed and tested plan that protects your
data in the event of a unforeseeable event or disaster. In
this increasingly commoditized and globalized business world,
has your information become the key to your competitiveness?
If so, what's your disaster recovery plan? If you have one,
have you tested it lately? You should always test your DR
plan on a regular basis. Do you have procedures and policies
in place in the event of a disaster?
Unfortunately, events can (and will) happen where local access
to your life blood, your data, is not possible ( fire, floods,
viruses, thief, corruption, etc... ). And because your data
means money, you'd best have your data protected some how,
some way, either backed up and/or replicated off-site. It's
important to quantify the level of data availability you need
to have your company / customers / end-users / clients up
and running again; the absolute maximum amount of downtime
your company can withstand without going out of business.
You need a plan that regains access to your revenue generating
data as fast as you can.
The importance of a DR plan should be directly proportionate
to the level of importance of your data. However, implementation
of a DR plan is often based on the investment costs and not
on the cost of downtime / data availability (or lack there
of). The introduction of the iSCSI protocol significantly
lowers the costs of a DR plan but still maintains the high
level of security, data availability and protection you need
for your data. It is now possible to implement a true DR plan
over your existing infrastructure, Ethernet. Because iSCSI
uses the technology investment you already know (purchase,
manage and maintain), it not only eases your decision to mitigate
your risks, but it also allows you to step up and implement
a higher level of protection that was once cost prohibitive.
simpleSAN values your data. When
we are engaged in the process of creating a DR plan, we help
you design a highly available, but cost effective, plan as
if your data were our own.
iSCSI, all the availability,
scaleability and manageability benefits of fibre channel SANs
at a fraction of the cost and without the intense learning
curve.
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