Ben Miller is a Product Solution Director at Bluelock. Bluelock provides mid-size and large enterprises flexible IT infrastructure solutions with its Bluelock Virtual Datacenters hosted in the public cloud. Bluelock’s unique customer approach leads to innovative solutions that offer unprecedented visibility and control, helping customers make better decisions about risk, agility and operational efficiency.
Four years ago, Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana needed a disaster recovery (DR) plan.
In fact, they spent nearly $250,000 building a traditional DR solution that would adequately protect
their critical applications. Initial tests that year were successful. The next year, however, after a change in
personnel, they had to spend two months preparing for the test. Then the following year, after another
change in personnel (unrelated to DR challenges) they still had to spend months preparing for the test.
If you’ve decided to protect your data and recover your applications, one of the first steps is making sure you can properly replicate your data to your recovery site.
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