Here is OUR short definition of the Data Protection segments:
- Backup - taking a "point-in-time" copy of the data/application. Approaches include backup-to-ALL as well as online snapshots of the data (such as BCV or Clone in the EMC world). Verification tools in this space helps you ensure your backup is complete and optimize the backup process.
- High Availability - increasing business service availability - technologies include virtualization, clusters, raids, load balancing (to some degree) and other hardware tweaks. Verification tools are your typical system management technologies that helps gauge the overall health of your system.
- Disaster Recovery - resume business operation from a remote data center - approach is based on either a shared facility or maintaining a dedicated "mirrored" facility. Technologies include tape-based recovery (ship your tapes to the remote site) and online replication (storage/database/server based) which is based on copying all data to the mirrored site, so you can resume your business service from that site without interruptions. Continuity Software is focusing on management and monitoring tools for this segment.
3 comments:
can tell me if "Disaster Recovery" is seen the same as "Business Continuity" by the market today?
What would see as the best way of approaching businesses for the supply of the service (we have a secure Vault centre) in Melbourne?
Hi Mark (and Doron)
Many people do refer to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity as the same thing -- although they shouldn't.
As with terms used in the Data Protection Market (as mentioned in your blog), there is general confusion and disagreements about what terms refer to what aspects of a plan to protect a business from disaster. I'm sure we're not alone - it seems that every part of the IT industry suffers from terminology confusion!
I've written a tutorial giving an overview of Disaster Recovery Planning, and one of the specific topics that it covers is the names and terms used to refer to DR. You can read it at:
Disaster-Recovery-Guidance.com - An Introduction to Disaster Recovery Planning
Regards,
Gareth
The data protection disaster recovery replication means data recovery from any type of data loss. It actually a key feature for the business continuity. There are different solution for different types of data and need of the business. Good one. very nicely written, good info shared.
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