Last week I introduced you to SnapProtect, our unified business continuance suite that leverages NetApp’s hardware-accelerated data protection capabilities to enhance and simplify business continuance processes.
I believe the best way to share all of the goodness we have to offer with SnapProtect is to begin by reviewing the current state of business continuance. With a common point to communicate from, I’ll proceed into our integrated data protection technologies and additional partner solutions in follow-on posts.
Let’s get started…
Business Continuance is Backup & Disaster Recovery
I want to begin by asking you to look at backup and disaster recovery (DR) as two ends of the business continuance spectrum. Both functions provide processes and procedures as a means to return an application, or set of applications, to a normal operational state in the event of corruption, loss or disaster.
What truly separates backup from DR is the costs associated with each process. On a per copy basis, backup is much less expensive, and as such is the standard data protection process for all systems. By contrast DR is very expensive, which commonly relegates its use to a select set of applications and systems.
Outside of the desire for applications, systems, and facilities to never go offline, businesses truly only care about restoring services as quickly as possible. The means of recovery is irrelevant, it can be accomplished from either backup or DR.
Time is money.
Backup is Broken
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