{"id":10307,"date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/threecloud.wpengine.com\/post\/high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-are-they-the-same-thing-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T21:52:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T02:52:46","slug":"high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-are-they-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/resources\/high-availability-and-disaster-recovery-are-they-the-same-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"High Availability and Disaster Recovery &#8211; Are They the Same Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are high availability and disaster recovery the same thing?<\/strong> High availability and disaster recovery are both very important and meaningful for business continuity but should be considered as completely different topics. <strong>In a recent webinar, Consultant and DBA Michael Wall, teaches you all you need to know about HR and DR, as well as how you should be using them in your environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>High availability (HA) is there to keep the data and the applications available for the business<\/strong>, in other words, your users. This presentation will delve into <strong>each way that IT can provide HA<\/strong>. He\u2019ll cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How your hardware is at risk<\/li>\n<li>How your software can provide continuity<\/li>\n<li>A few simple data tricks for HA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>HA is keeping the disaster from happening as long as possible, while DR is dealing with it after the fact. <strong>Disaster recovery (DR) is for when your tricks and software have failed, your systems are down, and users are unable to connect.<\/strong> Michael covers the <strong>four main topics in Disaster Recovery<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hardware style \u2013 secondary servers, alternate data centers<\/li>\n<li>Software \u2013 backups and recovery, RTO and RPO<\/li>\n<li>Data \u2013 Can you run a business? What critical tables\/objects\/rights\/users are needed to make the business limp along?<\/li>\n<li>People \u2013 make sure the people resources are available for when the crisis hits. Where does the DBA fit in all this?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lastly, <strong>the webinar digs into utilizing Azure for your HA and DR needs. This is where the cloud can really shine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more about high availability and disaster recovery, and how robust backup strategy goes a long way to deal with disaster recovery situations, this webinar is for you! Watch the complete webinar below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ihFWtzF2Uo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Need further help? Our expert team and solution offerings can help your business with any Azure product or service, including Managed Services offerings. Contact us at 888-8AZURE or\u00a0 <a href=\"mailto:sales@3cloudsolutions.com\">sales@3cloudsolutions.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are high availability and disaster recovery the same thing? High availability and disaster recovery are&mldr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[290,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-platform","category-security","topics-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/3cloudsolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}