Disaster Recovery is critical for continuity of the business operations, and an organization can lose millions of dollars if services go down. This cost comes in as loss of productivity and customer trust. Most organization cannot afford the downtime for more than a few minutes/hours. These organizations are using multiple Disaster Recovery Solution as each of the applications and workload functions differently than the other. A few of them rely on native replication technologies (eg; SQL always rely on SQL databases, Oracle Data Guard), few of them supports virtual server replication and a few of them work for physical servers, etc. The source/target location can be either data center or public cloud like Azure, AWS, etc. Irrespective of the data center location, Disaster Recovery solution is important to quickly recovery the services from secondary site to that business is not impacted. In case of any unplanned outage, it requires involvement of different teams (System Admin, Storage Admin, Network Admin, Security Admin, Database Admin, App Team, operations and Business Team) which is time consuming process and achieving RTO would be difficult as multiple changes required at each level.

The DR Automation and orchestration (ITRO) solution complements all the existing replication platform to improve the service SLA due to planned/unplanned outage by automating the DR process while lowering cost for the DR exercise and DR operations staff. These are some of the key consideration for ITRO Solution.

Vendor Neutral Support for DR Automation

The ITRO solution must have vendor neutral support with broadest range of technologies used by enterprise data centers, public, private and hybrid cloud deployment.

Orchestration & Automation Platform

The orchestration and automation should have built-in process to leverage through an extensive catalog of prebuilt templates, self-service interfaces, and direct Cloud Management Platform integrations.

Reliable Application Resiliency

The solution must have high degree of sophistication to the critical component of application resiliency, ensuring business services are made available to users and sites across your entire organization. This application resiliency capability to deliver true business process resilience, and not just server recovery.

DRP Compliance & Audit

The solution must have unified window to review real-time RTO and RPO to ensure the uptime for business and use the report for compliance and audit purpose.