Analyst Reports
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Research Director, IDC EMEA Emerging Technologies
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Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) “Continuity Software’s RecoverGuard is well positioned to validate a company’s ability to successfully recover from a disaster. Clearly, this functionality is a must-have for any company that can’t tolerate downtime.”
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Director of Storage and Networking, The Clipper Group “If your enterprise is spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars on DR technology, you want to know it will work fully when it is needed. However, DR gaps and vulnerabilities can hinder its ability to perform a failover. The worst part is that you often do not know they are there until it is too late.”
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“Many IT executives will admit off-the-record that while they have employed the most advanced and trusted solutions available, the ongoing changes, updates, and interdependencies in their infrastructure create the possibility of a failed or partial recovery. Enterprises should strive to close this gap -- to ensure the effectiveness of their DR investments -- by using a solution like Continuity Software's RecoverGuard.”
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Continuity Software's High Availability and Disaster Recovery Monitoring and Management in the Field
"The enterprise routinely replicates data between primary and secondary environments, which theoretically provides strong levels of protection should the primary host or site go down. However, over time IT frequently makes changes in the primary environment without making identical changes to the secondary and/or localized high availability (HA) solution (i.e., clusters). This process can play havoc with replication systems, leading to a dizzying 75% failure rate within a year of a company’s most recent disaster recovery (DR) test and mitigation."
Case Studies
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Due to the national importance of its services, the General Comptroller Office of Spain has made significant investment in Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) infrastructure.
Despite this significant investment, one ingredient was still missing in the ability of agency to ensure 24x7 service availability.
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Addressing Disaster Recovery and High Availability Challenges. Learn how Israel’s central bank overcame the limitations of traditional disaster recovery and high availability testing to automatically validate readiness between its production and DR sites.
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Discover how this leading cellular communications company uses RecoverGuard to ensure data protection and recoverability, and boost resource optimization.
Data Sheets
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Automatic insight into your disaster recovery replication environment, vulnerability detection and SLA validation
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The fastest and easiest way to ensure disaster recovery readiness
eBooks
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Despite considerable investments in periodic DR tests, most organizations are still not confident in their ability to recover in an emergency.
With industry analysts citing DR failure rates of at 60-80%, there is a good reason to be concerned.
Read this new eGuide and find out:
- What are the top 5 critical recovery flaws your last DR test may have missed
- How they would impact your business
- How to make sure you will never miss them again.
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Based on data gathered from 88 organizations worldwide, the Vulnerability Index Benchmark provides a first of its kind measurement of downtime and data loss risk for each organization, grouped by industry sector.
Get your complimentary copy of the 2011 Vulnerability Index Benchmark study and find out:
- Which areas of the IT infrastructure present the greatest HA/DR risks?
- Which industry sectors exhibit the highest levels of downtime and data loss risks?
- What types of HA/DR risks are most common at each sector?
- How can you compare your risk to your industry peers?
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Enterprises routinely build Disaster Recovery and High Availability measures into their private cloud infrastructure.
So why do downtime and data loss risks still exist?
Reality is that even the most robust Disaster Recovery and High Availability (HADR) plans are only as good as your ability to verify they would actually work when you need them.To help you out, we have assembled a community-driven database of over 4,900 issues that pose downtime and data loss risks.
While we would love to share them all, you can start with a peek at ten top risks in the private cloud environment.
Sample RecoverGuard Reports
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The DR Assurance reports detail uncovered issues and suggested resolutions, making them useful for both Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery professionals.
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This report is an excerpt of a full RecoverGuard Pilot Scann analysis conducted for a major insurance company. RecoverGuard uncovered 16 configuration gaps which were exposing the company to the risk of data loss and downtime. Note: All identifiable customer information has been removed.
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This report is an excerpt of a full RecoverGuard Pilot Scan analysis conducted for one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. RecoverGuard uncovered over 20 configuration gaps that had either gone undetected in the last full DR test, or had occurred after the test was completed. Note: All identifiable customer information has been removed.
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This report is an excerpt of a full RecoverGuard Pilot Scan analysis conducted for a leading U.S. electric company. RecoverGuard uncovered 36 hidden configuration gaps, some of which posed serious risks to the firm’s ability to recover. Note: All identifiable customer information has been removed.
Solutions Notes
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Identifying barriers to availability with automated infrastructure testing and monitoring
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Using automated infrastructure testing and monitoring for seamless data center migrations
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Ensuring recoverability with automated DR testing and monitoring
Videos
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View this 30-minute on-demand webinar and see how best-in-class data centers avoid downtime & data loss by using a one-stop solution to manage their entire business continuity infrastructure
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VSM speaks with Brian Schwarzentruber, Sales Engineering Director at Continuity Software about its RecoverGuard solution
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A quick look at how RecoverGuard ensures business continuity and DR readiness
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Gil Hecht, CEO of Continuity Software, shows how problems in disaster recovery can arise and what can be done to guarantee backup systems work when disaster strikes
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Traditional disaster recovery (DR) testingn often fails to uncover serious DR gaps that exist in every IT infrastructure. Find out what that can mean to your business and how you can uncover those gaps before operations are impacted
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Configuration drift is inevitable in today’s complex data centers, and it is also the greatest threat to your business continuity. Discover why it increases the risk of data loss and extended outages, and how automated DR and HA monitoring can eliminate the problem
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If you can't afford to miss your business continuity objectives, then you can't afford to miss this webinar featuring insights from Taneja Group analyst Christine Taylor. Learn how to bullet-proof and optimize your HA/DR systems, and why automated configuration testing and monitoring is the only way to ensure you can achieve your Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives
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Watch this demo to learn how RecoverGuard can help you automatically uncover the RPO and RTO risks that are hiding in your data center. This informative demo will help you understand why manual HA/DR testing is not enough to protect your business, and how automated testing and monitoring can help you minimize downtime, data loss or performance degradation.
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In this webinar, you will learn how to detect unprotected assets in any high-availability clustered environment and resolve the problem(s) before operations are impacted. You will discover why the greatest threat to business continuity could be the smallest configuration error, as well as how it could impact availability – and the business.
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While private clouds can offer tremendous business benefit in terms of managing applications and allocating IT expense across the organization, they also introduce IT management complexity that can lead to hidden single points of failure, failing high availability relocations, as well as best practices and service level agreement (SLA) violations. Review this webinar to learn how to find and eliminate The Top 10 Private Cloud Downtime and Data Loss Risks.
White Papers
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This paper explores why disaster recovery efforts have such high failure rates and takes a closer look at how RecoverGuard automated DR monitoring software can ensure business continuity.
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Research shows the average investment in HADR in large enterprises is 7-15% of the total IT budget.
But will this investment pay off when you need it?
Read this whitepaper and learn about:
- 27 hidden risks that can jeopardize your High Availability investment
- 3 underlying issues that make High Availability challenging
- 4 strategies used by organizations with best-in-class HADR practices
- 27 hidden risks that can jeopardize your High Availability investment