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The Agony and Ecstasy of Scalable

Disaster Recovery

02/05/2023 2

Contents

Index

Need for scalability

Applying a highly effective backup technology

Bringing scalable disaster recovery into play

Helping keep scalability simple

How Alpharithm Helps You?

The average data manager may have a somewhat tense existence if the systems aren’t protected from common outages. Whether for regular backup or for fully operational hot-swappable data centers, the ever-present need to protect information assets requires deliberate attention, extra infrastructure, and often secondary supporting technologies that dovetail to the solution base in a noninvasive manner.

When introducing a solution that implements IBM® PureData™ for Analytics, powered by IBM Netezza® technology, the sheer scale that is achievable by the smallest of these machines has the power to crush an infrastructure and lay waste to highly advanced and complex backup architectures.

Need For Scalability

The backup operation must chop the work into manageable chunks so that if one chunk should fail, a simple restart from the failed chunk can be made without going back to the very beginning.

The most effective backup technology for a Netezza machine is … another Netezza machine.

Onboard tools and utilities can easily and rapidly extract and redeploy information across these machines without decompression or any egregious file management logistics.

Applying automation so that operators have less to worryabout is easy. In fact, at Brightlight there are fully automated, inter-Netezza replication and archiving—delete behind—operations that are omnidirectional, many to one, or one to many, and they throttle the workload to keep it from swamping the network bandwidth.

Applying a highly effective backup technology

Replicating from a production Netezza server to another similar server at a secondary site provides a means to objectively verify that the data assets are preserved. But what happens in case of a disaster?

Two primary scenarios arise:

data center is destroyed Netezza machine goes offline

If the DR protocol is entirely Netezza-centric—data managers care only if the primary Netezza machine crashes, not the entire data center—the DR Netezza machine should be physically colocated with the primary machine in the primary data center.

Therefore, if the primary machine has an outage, the secondary one can take over and enjoy the same scalable bandwidth as the primary machine

Commodity backup that may require many days to extract and keep the information safe? It means that many days will be required to put it back. Suffice it to say, many days is not really a scalable option.

Bringing scalable disaster recovery into play

PureData for Analytics, powered by Netezza technology, is designed to be standardized on

simplicity Embracing easy scalable approaches for backup restore disaster recovery means high reliability less guesswork, scalability with the machine itself.

Organizations cannot afford to have their data management processes fall behind. Fortunately, Netezza never sleeps. Its data is always moving and always growing.

Replicate between Netezza machines with Netezza-compressed data to help get highly scalable and reliable backups.

Focus the infrastructure on high-speed restoration as the highest priority.

Helping keep scalability simple

Alpharithm is an award winning IBM business partner, solving complex data management challenges for our clients. Our aim is to “Help clients maximize the value of their data assets by transforming data into Intelligence & Insights”

We have helped organizations reduce the time required to process the data and increased the time they spend on analyzing the data

How Alpharithm Helps You?

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