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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By : Peter Ward
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

By: Peter Ward

Overview of this book

Where does it all go wrong with disaster recovery? Yes, why a disaster recovery plan fails the business and costs IT staff their jobs or a promotion? This book is an easytounderstand guide that explains how to get it right and why it often goes wrong. Given that Microsoft's SharePoint platform has become a missioncritical application where business operations just cannot run without complete uptime of this technology, disaster recovery is one of the most important topics when it comes to SharePoint. Yet, support and an appropriate approach for this technology are still difficult to come by, and are often vulnerable to technical oversight and assumptions. Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide looks at SharePoint disaster recovery and breaks down the mystery and confusion that surrounds what is a vital activity to any technical deployment. This book provides a holistic approach with practical recipes that will help you to take advantage of the new 2013 functionality and cloud technologies. You will also learn how to plan, test, and deploy a disaster recovery environment using SharePoint, Windows Server, and SQL tools. We will also take a look at datasets and custom development. If you want to have an approach to disaster recovery that gives you peace of mind, then this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Virtual Environment Backup and Restore Procedures
Index

DR – cloud versus cloud-native


The cloud is still a relatively nascent technology, and explicitly defining the boundaries of what makes an IT concept or service truly a "cloud" construct can be a bit confusing. Anything that runs in the cloud can technically be considered a cloud technology, but that does not mean that it is actually cloud-native, or really taking advantage of what the cloud has to offer. For example, a simple forklift of an on-premise application-oriented disaster recovery solution onto a cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform will result in the solution functioning the same way as it did on-premise—other than the fact that it is now hosted in a public or private cloud. The functionality will essentially remain unchanged, and the difference in implementation is negligible, when comparing the originating physical or virtualized hosting infrastructure and the destination cloud infrastructure. Certain cloud features, such as scalable storage and multi-site support...