Datto : 8-Hour Azure Outage Highlights Need for Independent Disaster Recovery Solution for Cloud Workloads

Published: 2021-10-21 14:14:06 ET MSP

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has become part of the mainstream compute infrastructure for both small and large businesses. The benefits are many from no CAPEX to "infrastructure on-demand" to support growing or seasonal workloads. But when public cloud services fail, businesses can find themselves in a "disaster recovery" scenario just as they would if they had a disruption in their own datacenter.

Such is the 8-hour outage that occurred with Microsoft Azure, where a global outage impacted Azure Virtual Machines and related services.

Outages such as the recent Azure incident are rare, but they can happen. This is why Managed Service Providers (MSPs) responsible for their clients' workloads in IaaS environments need to have a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan in place, just as they would for their customers whose workloads run on-premises or in a private cloud (such as an MSP's co-location facility).

While many of the "best practices" for BCDR are the same for on-premises, there are several nuances for IaaS workloads.

Datto provides a purpose-built solution for MSPs to provide all-in-one BCDR for their clients who run their infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. The solution, Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure, is unique in that while it runs as a cloud service to seamlessly protect Azure-based workloads, it utilizes the immutable Datto Cloud for backup retention and disaster recovery. Using the best practices listed above, let's see how Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure ranks

On top of the best practices outlined above, one of the key tenets of a best-in-class BCDR solution is the ease of use. When a technician is recovering one or more systems, mistakes can occur which is why the intuitive Datto Continuity for Microsoft Azure recovery launchpad walks you through the recovery process step by step.

The growth of workloads in public clouds will not soon abate nor will the attractiveness of IaaS as a means of running workloads for a growing number of SMB organizations. MSPs must be at the forefront of providing best-in-class BCDR for their clients no matter where their data resides. Datto Unified Continuity is the industry-leading solution for MSPs that spans on-premises and cloud to laptop and Office 365.

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Datto Holding Corp. published this content on 21 October 2021 and is solely responsible for the information contained therein. Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 21 October 2021 18:13:03 UTC.