Disaster Recovery Is An Extreme Sport
Do you get paid to look into the abyss? If the buck stops with you for the backup, recovery and availability of your company’s data and applications, are you standing on a precipice? If you make a mistake is it a long way down? Good. This is what real life looks like. This is the chance to really be alive, you versus reality, winner takes all. You might be afraid but fear is not going to guide you. Hardware will fail, security will be compromised, offices will be closed …but none of this matters because you will be there, the best of us, the one who saw the future.
Most Unforgiving
Data recovery and application availability is as close to life and death as you get using computers, every day you participate in the most extreme out of all IT functions… get it wrong and you wipe out.
Detail Is The Difference
What separates the good from the best? The more detail you can see the better you can prescribe. As the impact of downtime on your business moves from being measured in minutes to seconds the cost of getting it wrong is ever more tangible. Yesterday was minutes and hours but today the bar is at instant.
Danger Is OK
You will not be ruffled by the dangers that are there, the abyss may stare back at you but do it right and there is no danger.
No One Looks As Good As You
The disaster comes, everyone panics but you do not. You already thought about multiple locations and cloud. You already have the bandwidth assigned and the off-site VMs in sync. Your team already activated failover. No one looks as good as you.
Best Equipment
When everything is on the line only the best gear is good enough for your standards. You need real time availability in the same console as backup, you need truly heterogeneous compatibility across hypervisor, OS, media and hardware and you need the sophisticated management and reporting tools to massively optimize their performance.
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