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Saving The Day With Disaster Recovery Solutions

Eric Christiansen

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Having been with Kraft Kennedy for over 17 years, I’ve seen my fair share of disasters. I’ve had to deal with large scale disasters like Superstorm Sandy and I’ve handled many small ones, such as hardware failure, which are much more common.

More and more organizations are implementing Disaster Recovery solutions. However, if you ask them if they’ve ever had to rely on that solution, the number goes way down.

Recently, one of our clients based in White Plains merged with a small firm in Long Island. The Long Island firm ran its systems on two old Windows 2003 servers. Luckily, the White Plains firm had implemented the Datto Siris backup and disaster recovery solution. We were able to quickly get these two older servers backed up from the White Plains office via site-to-site VPN.

It’s a good thing too, because the primary server in Long Island completely failed a short time later due to a hardware failure. Instead of the Long Island firm being down indefinitely (the decade-old server was long out of warranty), we were able to quickly run a virtualized copy of the failed server on the Datto Siris appliance in White Plains. Users were back up and running the same morning of the failure. We ran the failed server on the Datto appliance until we could schedule convenient downtime so that we could perform a proper recovery to the VMware virtualized environment in White Plains.

While people typically associate DR solutions with fires or natural disasters, it is far more common for smaller disasters like hardware failure or data corruption to happen. These smaller disasters can have just as large of an impact in productivity as the big disasters and it’s crucial to be properly prepared. The Datto Siris solution has entailed a huge leap in the simplicity and capabilities of our clients’ Disaster Recovery solutions. We and our clients feel a lot more comfortable knowing that we can quickly recover from any disaster, large or small, once we implement something like the Datto Siris solution.