Recovery Management Jump-Start Package

Recovery Management
Today, almost every enterprise, regardless of size or type, does business electronically via some combination of IT-enabled tools. This means that almost every business is entirely dependant upon reliable, continuous access to the applications and information that enable the business to do business.

At the same time, threats to corporate IT resources grow in number, type and severity almost daily. Threats include viruses and "malware", accidental and intentional data corruption and, natural and man-made disasters.

Other challenges include the need to consolidate, migrate or virtualize servers and the resources they host without disrupting operations or putting those resources in jeopardy.

Amplifying all of this is the need to do business "at web speed." This means not only protecting the business against disruption of operations and loss of revenues from interruption of access to IT resources. It also means restoring those resources to a current, valid and usable state as rapidly as possible.

The CA XOsoft Product Suite provides a single, integrated, high-performance response to all of these challenges. The solution provides comprehensive replication of applications, databases and files, and near instantaneous failover and restoration of these resources after any loss or disruption. Integrated, automated testing of disaster recovery resources is also supported through CA XOsoft's unique Assured Recovery™ option, to help ensure readiness in the face of actual threats. This combination of real-time replication, application monitoring, application failover/failback and CA Assured Recovery keeps critical IT-enabled business resources available and reliable, helping to keep users working and productive, impervious to the broadest array of threats from the most severe to the day-to-day issues that may arise. The individual pieces of the CA XOsoft Suite are:

CA XOsoft™ Assured Recovery™
CA XOsoft Assured Recovery can perform either an automatic or manual disaster recovery test without interrupting your production environment, thereby validating the recoverability of your mission-critical data.

CA XOsoft™ CDP Solo
CA XOsoft CDP Solo is a continuous data protection product that helps you recover from data corruption caused by viruses, software errors and user errors by providing the ability to rewind data back to a point in time before the corruption happened.

CA XOsoft™ Content Distribution
CA XOsoft Content Distribution may be used to deliver, synchronize and consolidate corporate information repositories among multiple locations and branch offices around the globe. With CA XOsoft Content Distribution, employees and representatives in the field always have the right information, at the right time.

CA XOsoft™ High Availability
It is a business continuity product that offers uninterrupted data protection and near-instantaneous failover and restoration through the comprehensive monitoring and replication of applications, databases and files. As such, it helps ensure business continuity in your data-recovery environments.

CA XOsoft™ Replication
CA XOsoft Replication is a product that provides real-time data replication for business continuity and disaster recovery. It integrates replication, continuous data protection (CDP) and near instantaneous failover and restoration should a loss or disruption occur. Plus, the CA XOsoft Assured Recovery™ automated disaster recovery testing option helps to ensure readiness in the face of actual threats.

Jump-Start Package
Data Innovations' jump-start package establishes the environment to support an enterprise level recovery Management practice. The following sections identify the components of the package:

Requirements:
The jump-start package will require the one or more of the following:

These requirements allow Data Innovations to provide discounts for both software licenses and professional services.

Product Installation:
The CA XOsoft software will need to be installed. The following bullets identify the components of this service:

  • A custom installation plan for CA XOsoft is created.
  • Perform the product installations and create detailed installation procedures for all products on all servers.
  • Install the license files.
  • Establish the CA XOsoft environment:
    • Install All Agents.
    • Establish initial recovery plan.
    • Define fail-over options for each server.
    • Define Replication options for each server.
    • Create the change management policy.

Establish Best Practices:
Once the environment is established, best practices are defined to ensure proper utilization and to enforce the recovery management policy. The following bullets identify the components of this service:

  • Create an enterprise Recovery Management model.
  • Establish Recovery Management standards.
  • Establish XOsoft administration standards.