Disaster Recovery Verification

Challenge: We Are Ready… Or at Least, We Think We Are…

For Disaster Recover, it is not a question of 'if' but 'when'. With the potentially potent consequences of disaster, spanning from financial loss to damaging your company image, and with the increased legislation and regulation, it's obvious why organizations around the world realize that a resilient recovery plan is in the primary interest of any organization.

Today, organizations know that merely having a disaster recovery plan in place is not enough. While plans are often carefully crafted, they can fail by not having adequate testing and validation tools in place.

A major challenge facing IT teams today is ensuring that they have a reliable disaster recovery plan that will allow them to emerge completely unscathed or with minimal impact when situations arise. This is no easy task. With the complexity of IT environments and their successful operations hinging on an infinite number of (often changing) environment components, their content and configuration, systems are extremely vulnerable to incidents.

To remedy the challenge of ensuring the effective and timely recovery from disaster, IT teams must:

• Validate the configuration consistency of both production and disaster recovery environments, ensuring that all changes in production are mirrored by the disaster recovery environment
• Constantly monitor drifts that occur over time. There are numerous areas where drift happens – i.e configuration tuning, maintenance, patches, releases etc. Considering the high volume of changes, not all production changes make their way immediately to disaster recovery. There are of course planned releases that do this, but ongoing operational changes can be skipped and result in a disparity between the systems, making it more difficult to recover in a timely manner; thereby leaving your system vulnerable when failure strikes

Solution: Validate the Disaster Recovery Environment

Evolven Change Management takes on the dynamics and complexity of the modern data center and cloud, in way that was never available before, drilling deep and uncovering the most minute mis-configuration,  which many times are the root causes for unreliable disaster recovery environments.

Evolven Configuration Analytics empowers Disaster Recovery teams to:

• Validate that changes carried out in the production environment are mirrored in the disaster recovery environment. Evolven ensures required synchronization of Disaster Recovery and production, comparing the configuration of these environments. The resulting mismatches are prioritized and visualized, making it easy to act upon them
• Effectively monitor drifts that happen over time. To fight drifts, Evolven's "Drift Analytics" is used to proactively identify and report on changes in production, providing IT Operations and Disaster recovery teams with accurate visibility on those changes, and allows them to make informed decisions regarding the changes that need to be replicated 

To deliver accurate, meaningful, disaster recovery verification, Evolven:

• Covers the entire IT environment – wide variety of applications and their underlying infrastructure, including: applications, front-end servers, middleware, databases, messaging layer, operating systems, virtualization layer, and hardware
• Dives to granular level – drills down to the most granular level of the individual configuration parameter in any configuration source, including configuration files, registry, database schema, stored procedures, and reference data held in the database
• Delivers actionable information – applies powerful analytics to classify configuration changes by impact and criticality
• Realizes value quickly – relies on groundbreaking analytics to delivers initial value in hours, not days or months

Results:  Disaster Recovery Environment Reliability - "There When You Need it Most"

When disasters occur, you need a resilient and accurate disaster recovery plan that you can rely on. Having such a plan in place is insufficient unless it is continuously tested and validated for accuracy and readiness.

With this much on the line you need a powerful solution on your side. Evolven Configuration Analytics has the unrivaled ability to ensure consistency and integrity of disaster recovery environment by:

• executing comparisons that covers the entire IT environment
• drilling down to most granular level of configuration parameters
• applying analytics to focus on what matters most.

Evolven Configuration Analytics empowers disaster recovery teams to verify consistency and integrity of the Disaster Recovery environment, ensure readiness and enable a compliant environment that won't let you down.