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Database Disaster Recovery Solutions
Mitigate downtime by employing a robust DR strategy
Prevention is better than cure when it comes to data loss
In today’s world, deploying database disaster recovery is essential. A disaster can occur at any time and for many reasons, whether it’s an outage, a cyber attack, and often more likely, human error. It can include maintenance failure, a Database Administrator deleting the wrong table or database, a loose cable, or insufficient power supply from the grid. These factors are all real risks and can lead to crippling downtime.
Why is database disaster recovery important?
Security is paramount for database infrastructure
Human error or involvement accounts for around 80% of database downtime incidents. Lack of experience or failure to test is often to blame, with misconfigurations being a chief culprit, along with outdated software, unreliable backup media, poor database security, and unpatched databases also leading to costly downtime. Disaster recovery, therefore, has to form a critical role in your overall risk management and business continuity plan. Without a robust disaster recovery strategy, the end result will always be needless, expensive downtime.
Meanwhile, cyber attacks pose an increasingly significant risk to uptime. In short, data theft and server access attacks against organisations with poor database disaster recovery and security remain popular. This is especially true in key industries such as manufacturing, energy, and financial services. Although, with proper DR planning and defence-in-depth by creating additional, secure copies of data, organisations can successfully nullify such threats.
Straightforward disaster recovery for your databases
Disaster recovery doesn’t have to be complicated
Database disaster recovery is often far more straightforward than you may be anticipating, provided your disaster recovery partner possesses the appropriate level of experience and knowledge of your industry.
There are a wealth of options available, which is where your disaster recovery planning partner can help. Identifying your organisation’s specific needs, and tailoring these numerous options into a process that ensures maximum availability.
Whether it’s on-premise or cloud, our team will help you formulate a robust disaster recovery planning strategy that’s simple, secure, and delivers easy access to your data in the event of a disaster.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offers various solutions that replicates your estate in a secure cloud failover environment – all handled by our expert independent team of database consultants. DRaaS is a flexible option that saves significant sums in on-site datacentre maintenance and dedicated DR experts on staff, whilst delivering the availability that you need to satisfy your service level commitments.
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Affordable disaster recovery for Oracle database
Disaster recovery for Oracle SE & EE
Whether on-prem or in a cloud-based deployment, we’re able to configure disaster recovery for your Oracle databases and we’re adept in deploying and maintaining DR with Data Guard in Enterprise Edition (EE).
However, Oracle Standard Edition Two (SE2) presents a distinct challenge for businesses prioritising robust disaster recovery. Critical Data Guard functionality, which is essential for real-time data protection and failover, remains exclusively within the realm of Enterprise Edition (EE). This leaves SE2 users with a significant gap in their resilience strategy.
However, we acknowledge that licencing limitations shouldn’t force a compromise on business continuity. Hence, through our strategic partnership with Dbvisit, we offer a proven and cost-effective solution. StandbyMP enables SE2 users to bridge this gap and achieve reliable disaster recovery without the need for an EE upgrade.
Simplifying DR in SQL Server
Disaster recovery for all SQL Server environments
SQL Server Standard Edition provides a foundation for HA with basic availability groups, allowing replication of a single database instance. However, for comprehensive disaster recovery, especially across multiple databases or into the cloud, more robust solutions are often needed. We understand these needs and can expertly configure traditional log shipping for reliable data protection within on-prem and hybrid environments.
Furthermore, we have expertise in deploying and supporting Always On Availability Groups. Therefore we can enable you to safeguard multiple databases with advanced replication and failover capabilities. Plus, if you’re looking to leverage the cloud, we can architect and implement secure and scalable disaster recovery solutions in Azure. Ultimately, no matter the challenge, we work to ensure your SQL Server environment remains resilient and accessible.
Disaster recovery in the cloud
Providing agnostic and scalable DR solutions to protect your data in the cloud
Realise the full potential of cloud-based disaster recovery with our comprehensive solutions for both Oracle (SE2 and EE) and SQL Server. We specialise in crafting DR strategies that reside entirely within the cloud, leveraging powerful native tools to enhance your resilience. Whether you’re seeking a hybrid approach or a fully cloud-native deployment, our expertise ensures seamless integration and optimal performance.
We provide expert guidance on selecting and implementing the right cloud-based tools, and with our Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering, we can take complete ownership of your cloud DR configuration and management, giving you peace of mind and allowing you to focus on core business goals.
Learn how database DR added resilience for our client
We implemented database replication for a large supermarket chain, ensuring that identical sets of business data were maintained concurrently. As a result, this ensured a substantial increase in resilience and a significant reduction in RTOs and RPOs.
The disaster recovery setup was supported by 24x7x365 database monitoring and management. By using a database managed services provider to implement proactive DRaaS, the client now receives advance notification of performance issues and has awareness of any maintenance demands.
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