colocation & outsourcing
an inefficient approach to data
storage is the root cause of these
challenges. Investing in compression
and deduplication not only reduces
the storage capacity requirement
for primary data, but can accelerate
performance by reducing the
write load. Stand alone solutions
introduce additional operational
complexity and capex, but some
hyperconverged infrastructures
now incorporate local data
optimisation without adding new
layers of complexity. Furthermore,
systems with globally aware
deduplication schemes ensure that
data remains optimised between
sites, transforming unwieldy remote
back ups into operations that are
completed over a cup of tea.
That’s a back up problem, but
if the objective is disaster recovery
the real measure is the RTO. Let’s
assume all servers are virtualised. How
long does it take IT to recover that
critical virtual machine or group of VMs
and put them back online? How many
pages long is your playbook? Can you
do it even if colleagues are on holiday?
How easy is it to subsequently
return to ‘normal operations’? Here,
virtualisation to date has only delivered
a partial solution because storage must
still be manually configured to provide
a LUN or share onto which a datastore
is configured, then the virtual machine
restored to that datastore and then
finally the VM can be brought online.
Now hyperconvergence can virtualise
data so that VMs are abstracted from
physical storage, and this makes
it possible to recover a VM with a
single ‘point and click’ operation in
virtualisation tools such as vCenter.
Combine all the recent technological
advances now available within
hyperconverged infrastructure and it
is not uncommon to slash RTOs from
hours to minutes or even seconds
and subsequent recovery to normal
operations is just as simple.
Remove the complexity
If your team is under pressure to deliver
more with less and you’re spending
your time troubleshooting back ups,
it’s a lose-lose situation for you and
for the business. Infrastructure has
finally caught up and is delivering
on the promises of virtualisation.
Remove the complexity of system
dependencies, optimise data once
and forever and make your remote
site back up and disaster recovery
as simple as setting a policy for your
VMs in your virtualisation tool.
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