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Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By : Marcel van den Berg
Book Image

Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds: RAW

By: Marcel van den Berg

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Managing Microsoft Hybrid Clouds
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Summary and a Look into the Near Future
Index

Disaster recovery using Azure Site Recovery


Disaster recovery has always been on the top priorities for organizations. IT has become a very important, if not mission-critical factor for doing business. A failure of IT could result in loss of money, customers, orders, and brand value.

There are many situations that can disrupt IT such as:

  • Hurricanes

  • Floods

  • Earthquakes

  • Disasters such as a failure of a nuclear power plant

  • Fire

  • Human error

  • Outbreak of a virus

  • Hardware or software failure

While these threads are clear and the risk of being hit by such a thread can be calculated, many organizations do not have a proper protection against those threads.

In three different situations, disaster recovery solutions can help an organization to continue doing business:

  • Avoiding a possible failure of IT infrastructure by moving servers to a different location.

  • Avoiding a disaster situation, such as hurricanes or floods, since such situations are generally well known in advance due to weather forecasting capabilities...