Ensure Business Resiliency with BCDR

Catastrophic events are not just a possibility, but they are an eventuality that companies need to prepare for. Wherever businesses are on their cloud journey, being prepared for the unpredictable disruption is a business imperative.

That’s where Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) solutions mean the difference between an always-on business or a broken customer experience. Microsoft offers a comprehensive BCDR solution designed to help organizations protect their critical data, maintain business operations during disruptions, and quickly recover from any unexpected incidents. BCDR is an essential component of an organization's overall risk management strategy, ensuring the continuity of operations and minimizing the impact of disruptions.

At the core of Microsoft's BCDR solution is Azure, the robust cloud computing platform provided by Microsoft. Azure provides a wide range of services and tools specifically designed to enable organizations to implement effective BCDR strategies.

Looking at some strategies to plan for, one of the most common aspects of such a solution is Backup and Restore.

Backup and Restore

Microsoft Azure Backup enables organizations to securely and efficiently back up their on-premises data and applications to the cloud. This solution allows for automated backups, incremental backups, and flexible recovery options. It helps protect against accidental deletions, hardware failures, and other data loss scenarios.

More advanced solutions are being explored below that should form part of a more complete strategy for most organizations that are seeking high availability of their workloads and require an addition site for failover purposes.

Site Recovery

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is a powerful disaster recovery solution that replicates and orchestrates the failover of virtual machines, physical servers, and Azure VMs to a secondary site or to Azure itself. ASR provides continuous replication, near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs), and low recovery time objectives (RTOs) to minimize data loss and downtime during disruptions.

Azure Resiliency, Azure Site-to-Site VPN, and Azure Monitor and Security are features that are required to failover workloads effectively.

Microsoft's BCDR solution combines the power of Azure's cloud infrastructure, data protection capabilities, and advanced monitoring and security tools to help organizations effectively address their business continuity and disaster recovery needs. Whether it's protecting critical data, maintaining uptime during disruptions, or swiftly recovering from unexpected incidents, Microsoft's BCDR solution offers a robust framework to ensure operational resilience in today's dynamic business environment.

Let us help you secure your customer’s environment with available solutions from Microsoft Azure. Contact your Surestep Ambassador for a security assessment session to start the conversation with your customer.