The key to successful recovery is to be prepared with an avant-grade data recovery solution. We understand it may not be at the top of your “To Do” list, but if it is done well and with complete planning, it can ensure your business is ready when disaster strikes. It required preparation, management and testing.

The growing data availability threat: Ransomware

One of the leading causes of outage today is cybercrime, specifically ransomware. The truth is ransomware isn’t new and your disaster recovery solution needs to be able to restore your business from a wide variety of outages. It has been around in one form or another for decades. Like other technologies, malware and ransomware are evolving with new threat variants coming out all the time. One reason for this is cyber criminals are sharing techniques and base code (off-the-shelf malware) with other criminals – which accelerates the time to market for new and more robust malware.

Too many data protection tools is a big challenge & menace:
With weather events, ransomware and other outages disrupting your business, recovery time is critical. When time is being measured in minutes and seconds, you require a view across all your data. However, organizations that have multiple data protection tools take longer to recover, have more manual steps and are prone to errors. Today’s recovery plan needs to cover physical and virtual servers, storage arrays, applications, databases, cloud environments, containers and even big data platforms. Many organizations are replacing multiple tools with a single solution to cover both their daily data management needs as well as addressing full disaster scenarios. For day-to-day activities, a single solution will streamline restore operations; ensure consistent processes and increase staff efficiency and responsiveness.

Ways to protect and Recover through Ransomware:
There are multiple ways to achieve protection and recovery from the Ransomware attack. Firstly would like to explain the best option i.e. to have multi-tiered replication for cost effective recovery.

A real-world disaster recovery challenge is replicating data to your recovery site. Your organization is creating new data all the time. This new data needs to be replicated off site in case the production site has an outage.

In an ideal world, an enterprise would have 100% of their data replicated to the disaster recovery site in fraction of seconds. Nevertheless, given you don’t have infinite network capacity, a multi-tiered replication strategy is the most realistic approach that accommodates the different priorities of data and types of workloads you need to restore.

Multi-tiered replication also helps recover from ransomware attacks. For those, you need a scalable method such as controlled snapshots and backup copies to restore your entire environment. If you are only using a continuous replication solution, it will be prohibitively more expensive since it requires more storage to keep all the granular restoration data.

Secondly would like to discuss on Flexibility to address daily recovery needs as well as full-scale disasters. Data center-wide disasters don’t happen that often, but you need to recover files or restore entire servers frequently, sometimes on a daily basis. For these recovery scenarios, it is important to be able to manage data and workloads across on-premises and cloud storage locations from a single user interface.

Disaster recovery for today’s real-world outages

Comprehensive disaster recovery of data across on-premises, cloud and virtual environments is critical for your business.

Select a real-world disaster recovery solution that covers your needs by:

• Protecting you from various outage types: weather events, ransomware and other outages
• Providing flexible disaster recovery options to meet your changing infrastructure needs
• Automating and carrying out various recovery tasks, not only disaster recovery
• Supporting a wide array of disaster recovery architecture options so that you can balance cost versus performance
• Providing an easy-to-use and intuitive management console
• Streamlining recovery operations when disaster strikes

To encapsulate the discussion, choosing the right disaster recovery solution can be the difference between keeping the organizations’ lights on or going dark during an emergency. Hence, it is important and crucial to have perfect solution BCP and DR solution. This will give you peace and you shall be a superhero; ready to protect and recover from today’s real-world outages at a moment’s notice.