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Disaster Recovery

Blog posts in the Disaster Recovery category

AI Agent Workflows: How Saved States Support Recovery

Save durable checkpoints, replay recorded results and use idempotency to recover AI agent workflows without duplicating external actions.

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Ultimate Guide to Durable Stateful Container Design

Checklist-driven guide to designing durable stateful containers: storage, replication, StatefulSets, backups, RPO/RTO and tested failover.

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How Serverless Systems Handle Region Failure

Set RTO/RPO, replicate state, control writes and test DNS failover to keep serverless apps resilient across regions.

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Monitoring and Alerting for VMware Private Cloud

Prioritise key VMware signals, link backup job status to service maps, and automate incident response to reduce alert noise.

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About IBM Cloud Global Load Balancers

DNS-based global load balancers prevent regional outages, reduce latency and unify multi-region services under one hostname.

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Active-Active vs Active-Passive for Multi-Cloud K8s

Compare active-active and active-passive multi-cloud Kubernetes: cost, RTO/RPO, data consistency and team impact for UK organisations.

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Third-Party Vendor Compliance Guide for Cloud Migration

Assess cloud vendors: classify services, verify security and resilience, set contract rights, define control ownership and plan exit.

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5 Factors for Multi-Region Scaling Costs

Multi-region cloud setups can cost 2–3× single-region: focus on data transfer, regional pricing, redundancy, tooling and autoscaling.

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How to Design Redundant Hybrid Cloud Topologies

If one fault can stop traffic, it's a design issue—align hybrid cloud topology to RTO/RPO with dual paths, auto failover and matched security.

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AWS Cross-Region Replication: Cost Breakdown

Explains cross-region transfer, destination storage and service fees across S3, RDS, Aurora and EBS, with practical cost-saving steps.

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Best Practices for CI/CD Tool Version Updates

Treat every CI/CD version bump as a risk: check compatibility, test in staging, rehearse rollback, and verify post-release.

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SSO for Hybrid Cloud: Best Practices

Map identity sources, match each app to SAML/OIDC/OAuth, centralise policies, phase rollouts and test failover for resilient hybrid SSO.

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