Help your business with Azure Disaster Recovery Services
A key component for business continuity is the Disaster Recovery Plan that contains strategies for handling IT disruptions to networks, servers, Databases, and various devices.
According to ISO 22301, a business continuity plan is defined as “documented procedures that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a pre-defined level of operations following a disruption.” Disaster recovery is a subset of the overall BCP because, without your data, you are at the mercy of whatever disruption found its way into your data center.
Suggestion? You need Microsoft Azure Disaster Recovery services. Here’s how the recovery solutions work and why Azure is flexible enough for every business environment.
What is Azure Disaster Recovery?
Azure offers businesses two types of services that contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). They are:
- Azure Site Recovery (ASR) — DRaaS
- Azure Backup — BaaS
Let us see how ASR works?
Azure Site Recovery is what’s known as a DRaaS, or Disaster Recovery as a Service. It’s a cloud-based tool that allows you to quickly recover from a disaster without losing your on-site workloads. Let’s break down its key features.
Customized DR
With ASR, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to business continuity. Instead, with the help of a managed IT specialist, you can design an entirely customized disaster recovery plan to suit your own requirements.
Service level management
Service management is central to ASR. Near zero data loss can be achieved to meet existing Recovery point objectives (RPOs). This means there’s minimal downtime and data loss, or business disruption.
Workload replication
ASR seamlessly migrates your on-site workloads and apps to various secondary sites including Azure’s own virtual machines (VMs) and physical servers. So whether you’re looking for on-site or remote management, ASR ensures you don’t lose any critical data.
Failover
Outages are no problem when you deploy ASR across your business. If there’s an outage, all you do is log in to your secondary location and access your replicated workloads from there.
Failback
Want to switch back from your failover site to your primary environment? No problem. ASR lets you move straight back to your original environment without losing any data or changes you’ve made to files.
Who is Azure Site Recovery for?
Azure Site Recovery is dynamic enough to work across both hybrid and cloud-only environments. The service supports:
- Physical workloads including Linux and Windows servers
- Virtual workloads such as Hyper-V and VMware
Here’s a little more detail on how it works.
Azure to Azure
Azure simply replicates your virtual machine(s) from one region to another. Since there is no need for you to maintain a secondary physical data center, you can drive down costs and improve your operational efficiency.
On-premises to Azure
Provides an almost-instant failover process with minimal downtime.
Running a hybrid environment? No problem. Azure migrates apps and workloads from your cloud and physical server environments without inconsistency or performance glitches.
Summary
Nobody likes to think about their business getting impacted by a disaster, and hopefully, you will never experience it, but data shows that you are likely to face some level of compromise along the road.
Implementing the right DRaaS solution is non-negotiable to ensure business continuity and protect your workloads from unplanned eventualities.
Microsoft Azure is now the ideal destination for disaster recovery for virtually every enterprise server in the world.
