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Continuity
Developing an effective business continuity program requires an understanding of the business, flexibility to meet changing requirements and technical expertise across the enterprise. With the availability of a number of choices you can select the option that best aligns with the value of the data, your recovery objectives, required service levels and budgetary constraints. Tiered protection and recovery delivers the right levels of protection, recoverability, and performance at the right cost.
Replication management allows storage and application administrators to fully leverage the functionality of tiered replication and vastly simplifies their management. With the volume of information growing, and environments becoming increasingly complex, the need for automated replication management has never been greater. Replication management tools for storage operations provide efficient and accurate data replicas for business continuity, automate deployment and management of replicas in multi-vendor environments, and enable new clustering capabilities.
The success of protection and recovery depends on your ability to access a separate point-in-time copy of the data. These copies can be local or remote – you can select from various recovery-point objectives (RPO’s), recovery time objectives (RTOs) and distance options.
Tiered protection and recovery allows you to meet required service levels – while containing costs by matching price, performance, and availability requirement with the value of the data.
Utilizing a broad suite of storage platforms, available from EMC, you can replicate your enterprise and midrange environments effectively and affordably, with advanced management features, within the EMC software offerings. Automation and advanced management functionality simplify the replication process.
EMC Enterprise Business Continuity Solutions can help meet a variety of recovery-time objectives, recovery-point objectives, and distance considerations. Two of EMC’s Software offerings for the Windows environment are:
- Data replication: EMC RepliStor replicates data with no distance limitations, enabling COOP recovery time objectives to be met by having exact replicas of your most important applications and information ready at a contingency site for rapid business continuance. For non-Windows environments, the EMC SRDF family of software provides remote storage replication solutions.
- High-availability applications: To automate and ensure failover to a contingency site, EMC AutoStart monitors applications and data over wide areas, re-provisions and restarts services when failures occur, and automates failback to production site. Together, RepliStor and AutoStart ensure your critical Windows information systems can quickly and effectively recover from a disaster at an alternate site. And for non-Windows environments, AutoStart along with SRDF/S or SRDF/a can be used for high availability business restart and continuity of operations.
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