Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery
Protect Your IT Systems and Ensure Business Continuity
Microsoft Azure is designed to minimize downtime, but Microsoft service level agreements (SLAs) refer only to the Azure infrastructure. Unforeseen events, issues with application code, and a lack of governance all pose a threat to system resiliency and business continuity. VIAcode’s BC/DR experts help organizations worldwide protect their IT systems and ensure applications are available when needed.
Struggling to Ensure System Resiliency?
VIAcode can help you develop a cost-effective, comprehensive, and reliable high availability/backup recovery plan in Azure. Our services include assessing high availability, latency, and disaster recovery options, reviewing availability options for virtual machines, SQL databases, and multi-tier web applications, understanding how Microsoft SLAs impact your infrastructure design, and monitoring for service availability.
Why Choose VIAcode’s BC/DR Services?
A robust BC/DR plan is essential for maintaining business continuity and protecting critical data. VIAcode offers:
BCDR Assessments:
Cataloging existing on-premise and cloud applications and services to identify gaps and readiness.
BCDR Planning:
Establishing processes to protect critical data, limit downtime, and maximize availability.
BCDR Readiness Implementation:
Ensuring successful execution of BC/DR plans with regular testing and updates.
Comprehensive BCDR Assessments
BCDR assessments provide insight into your current state of readiness should disruption occur and help identify gaps in your response capability. A BCDR assessment includes:
- Analysis of existing BCDR processes and procedures.
- Review of the current DR plan.
- Assessment of compatibility and viability of SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs.
Detailed BCDR Planning
BCDR planning establishes the processes needed to protect critical data, limit downtime, maximize availability, and safeguard company brand. BCDR planning steps include:
- Updating current application to infrastructure mapping, defining SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs.
- Validating application dependencies.
- Identifying infrastructure and/or application changes required to support high availability initiatives.
- Defining a notification and communication strategy to alert key stakeholders when availability issues arise.
- Analyzing and providing a detailed BCDR deployment plan with recommended Azure resource configurations.
- Providing BCDR Azure cost estimates.
- Reviewing the BCDR deployment plan to secure buy-in from key stakeholders who should be “owners” of the plan.
Effective BCDR Readiness Implementation
BCDR readiness implementation ensures the BCDR plan can be successfully executed in the event of a disruption. This includes:
- Coordinating and implementing high availability infrastructure changes, such as load balancers, paired regions, availability zones, SQL Always-On, RA-GRS, CI/CD, etc.
- Deploying Azure Backup for Azure VMs and other Azure resources.
- Configuring built-in backup for core services like Azure App Service, Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance, CosmosDB, etc.
- Configuring backup for Global services/ARM.
- Implementing Azure Site Recovery.
- Testing failover and failback processes.
- Documenting processes, procedures, and actual vs. expected results to continually review and improve.
Ready to Enhance Your Business Continuity with VIAcode?
Ensure resiliency and continuity with our expert BC/DR services.
Contact VIAcode today to learn how our BC/DR services can help you develop a comprehensive and reliable high availability/backup recovery plan, ensuring your applications are always available when you need them.
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