Business Critical Applications

The tip of the triangle focuses on the applications (or data) that drives your business. It is these applications within your business that, should they go down for any length of time, cost you money. The recovery of this information, in the event of a ‘disaster’, needs to be very fast (RTO in minutes) and the data can’t be very ‘old’ when it is recovered (short RPO, less than 24 hours). Typically, the technologies that are used for these types of applications are replication (synchronous or asynchronous) or continuous data protection (CDP). These technologies ensure that recovery at the alternate location are instant (or near instant) and / or give users the ability to pick a point in time they want to recover to in order to ensure no data loss and the ability to bring up the applications as fast and accurately as possible. This category, much like the rest of them, have the same disclaimer, 'one size (product) does not fit all'. Depending upon the value of the data in this tier, and the risk to the business if this data is unavailable drives the technology and spend in this part of the triangle. Keep in mind, the right technology (Don't choose CDP if you need an active remote file system) gives you the best recovery (RPO) for your business needs and can keep you on the Road to Recovery.

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Business Continuity, CDP, Data Deduplication, protection, Recovery, Replication