DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits

DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation

When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product delivery. Ideal for project managers, this flow is the elixir to innovation and enables the agility needed to respond to changing market requirements. It also creates currents of speed, proactiveness and integration within enterprises. However, asynchronous code updates, inadequate IT infrastructure, siloed functioning and inefficient processes can hinder this flow.

Chaos Engineering :D

is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third party to provide failover in the event of a natural catastrophe, power outage or another type of business disruption.

RTO - recovery time objective & RPO - recovery point objective

 The recovery time objective (RTO) is the maximum tolerable length of time that a computer, system, network, or application can be down after a failure or disaster occurs.

8 DRaaS risks to identify and remediate

Before signing with a specific DRaaS provider, get information on how the vendor handles data protection and recovery and restoration, among other things.

Steps for a successful DRaaS implementation

For organizations with an established technology disaster recovery (DR) program, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) can automate specific functions, such as updating procedures, providing real-time analytics on the status of the program and DR plan exercising. Organizations with minimal or no DR activities can use DRaaS resources to configure a suitable and cost-effective program in a relatively short amount of time. Depending on the resources available from the DRaaS vendor, additional activities such as monitoring critical infrastructure elements, backing up data and applications and even monitoring of production environments can be selected

DRaaS vs. cloud DR: What are the differences?

 Disaster recovery as a service and cloud DR have the same end goal, but there are pros and cons to each approach that admins must consider before going with one over the other.