Gravic, Inc. Publishes New White Paper: What is Your Business Continuity Plan for the Inevitable?

MALVERN, Pa. - April 23, 2015 - PRLog -- Gravic, Inc. announces the availability of the white paper, Fingers Crossed? Or What is Your Business Continuity Plan for the Inevitable? This newly announced paper will help you to make the right choice for your business, and ensure that your business continuity solution will be there for you when the time comes, so that you don’t have to just cross your fingers and hope!

Extended system outages happen, and when they do, the cost to your business can be severe. It might not be that bad, provided you have a complete, documented, and well-tested business continuity plan in place. Maybe you think that you do, but survey data does not support this thinking; many companies are operating with the mistaken belief that their business continuity plan will work when the time comes. The first steps are to make sure that this scenario does not apply to your company, completely document your business continuity plan, and regularly exercise it in practice.

In order to complete a thorough business continuity plan, the IT architecture must be selected in order to maintain services in the event of an outage (planned or unplanned). Focusing on real-time data replication, this new paper discusses the pros and cons of several, from classic active/passive, through sizzling-hot-takeover (SZT), to active/active, using Shadowbase asynchronous and synchronous real-time data replication.

Many users never get beyond a basic active/passive architecture, which is difficult to test and is risky because it can suffer from failover faults; consequently, this model is reactive and provides a false sense of security. The more sophisticated business continuity solutions (SZT and active/active) – while marginally more complex and expensive to implement – are in fact far more cost-effective when looked at through the lens of total cost of ownership (TCO). Asynchronous SZT and active/active configurations are far superior to active/passive, and should be the minimum solution chosen. But these configurations also have issues: some data loss (in both cases, although active/active is 50% less than SZT), and possible data collisions (active/active only).

It may be that for your applications, one or other of these solutions is perfectly good enough (match the attributes of the solution to the potential costs of a prolonged outage). But for some, even SZT or active/active is not adequate. For example, applications where no data loss is acceptable, or which must be 100% available, cannot employ an active/active architecture, because data collisions cannot be tolerated or avoided. For these applications, Shadowbase synchronous replication offers a solution, eliminating both data loss and data collisions when running in an active/active architecture.

Make sure that your business continuity plan is based on more than just faith, and you know that it works because you have exercised it regularly. Choose the appropriate business continuity architecture and data replication solution that has the necessary attributes to eliminate the risk of your company suffering large costs due to an IT outage.

To read the new white paper, please click here: http://www.gravic.com/shadowbase/pdf/white-papers/Fingers-Crossed-Or-What-is-Your-Business-Continuity-Plan-for-the-Inevitable.pdf.

Sales and Support for Shadowbase software solutions are directly available from HP. For more information, please visit http://www.gravic.com/shadowbase or contact your HP account team or Gravic, Inc. at shadowbase@gravic.com.

Gravic, Inc. is a privately-held corporation located in Malvern, PA, about twenty miles west of Philadelphia, PA, USA. Gravic makes a number of computer software products for data collection, transformation, and distribution uses. Customers of its Shadowbase data replication products include banks, financial and brokerage firms, insurance companies, stock exchanges, electric utilities, healthcare, and telecommunications companies.