In this modern era, businesses can’t afford even a one-minute downtime which can result in revenue loss, reputational damage, and regulatory penalties. With the increasing complexity of infrastructure, the efficient coordination of your business recovery is the ultimate solution to survival.

Resiliency orchestration is the new competitive game-changer. IBM cloud resiliency orchestration may help in transforming and managing the resiliency across your infrastructure. It offers a reliable and predictable recovery solution that seamlessly responds to IP complexity and interdependencies across all environments.

How It Works?

IBM cloud resiliency orchestration is designed to simplify and automate the process of disaster recovery with the help of intelligent workflow automation, improved transparency and predictability of recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). This unique solution that commonly used application and database patterns can be selected and assembled to create reliable, repeatable disaster recovery workflows to scale up and streamline the recovery processes. By using a centralized dashboard, the service combines the monitoring, reporting, testing, and workflow automation capabilities of complex IT infrastructure into a scalable, easy-to-use solution that built on industry standards along with a robust reporting mechanism that provides compliance and deviation reports to meet executive management and regulatory requirements.

IBM Cloud resiliency orchestration supports a fully hybrid environment including multiple platforms, multiple operating systems, multiple cloud, virtual, and physical environments and offers automated drill failover management with as much as 75 percent reduction in drill time reducing human error through automated run books. It also detects environment changes that cause recovery failure and helps in eliminating manual resource-intensive and costly IT recovery processes that translate into a more cost-effective, simplified recovery practice that is smarter than anything, more tailor-made, and nimbler than earlier.

Service Deployment

Cloud Resiliency Orchestration offers its services as a managed service from IBM cloud or as a software that will be managed through an IBM Business Partner. The managed service that is deployed through IBM Resiliency Services comprises the following six steps:

Assessment: Disaster recovery requirements are evaluated by the IBM project manager by communicating with the customer’s disaster recovery manager.

Provisioning and Activation: After completion of the assessment process, IBM Cloud Resiliency Orchestration software is installed, all applications and their interdependencies are defined by mapping assets and the relationship between the production environment and the DR sites. And, workflows are created for ensuring protection, testing, and failover.

Monitoring: With the help of workflows, RPO and RTO threshold are defined and the environment is monitored in real-time using the executive view of the dashboard.

Validation and Testing: Recovery failure with its “pre-flight” checks is prevented using validation manager that alerted when changes are occurred in databases or apps, either on the production or the DR site.

Failover: In this step, a complete environment can be failover when an outage occurs including databases, applications, and their dependencies with the help of a single click.

Reporting: Dashboard offers a complete view in the form of reports and insights into your failover performance.

Conclusion

IBM Cloud Resiliency Orchestration offers monitoring, testing, workflow automation, and reporting capabilities for disaster recovery of complex and hybrid infrastructure in a reliable, scalable, and easy to use service that built on industry standards. The solution combines the automation and analytics features for more cost-effective, faster disaster recovery to help in keeping businesses running all times and to avoid disruptions which lead to a loss in revenue, reputational damage, and dissatisfied customers.

It offers some prominent features such as address resiliency at the business process level, heterogeneous environment support, improves RTO and RPO, simplifies and accelerate DR processes, optional add-ons for managed services, and automate drill failover management.

Pricing

IBM Cloud Resiliency Orchestration allows reduction of RTO, RPO, and delivers easy, predictable disaster recovery to improve services. For more info, please visit the pricing page.

Author: Nisar Ahmad

Systems Engineer, vExpert 2017-19, owner of My Virtual Journey, with experience in managing a Datacenter environment using VMware and Microsoft Technologies. This blog mainly covers virtualization and cloud technologies but also covers some other technologies such as Cyber Security, Quantum Computing etc.