Octo8 | Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery,
sized to the business

Protect the minimum viable business, not a copy of everything.

Most disaster recovery is either missing or a costly replica of production. Octo8 identifies the services your organization must keep running while the rest is restored, designs recovery around them, and proves it works.

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Hours

Tier 1 · Must survive

A standby recovery environment, ready to run

Days

Tier 2 · Important

A protected copy, restored in priority order

When needed

Tier 3 · Everything else

An archive copy, kept safe and restorable

The Source Code

Resonance & Randomness

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The common mistake

Two ways recovery goes wrong

The gap

No recovery at all

A second data center costs too much, so recovery is postponed. Backups exist, but nobody has proven the organization can run from them.

The replica

A copy of everything

Every server is duplicated just in case. Most of that capacity sits idle, and the cost crowds out the testing that would make it trustworthy.

The Octo8 design

The minimum viable business

Fast recovery for the services that must keep running, including what they depend on. A protected copy for everything else. Then a test.

How it works

The 4R Framework, applied to recovery

Phase 01

Rationalize

Sort services by what the business cannot run without. Map their dependencies: identity, network, databases.

Phase 02

Recover

Set a recovery target for each tier. You approve the minimum viable business before anything is sourced.

Phase 03

Repurpose

Redirect what a full replica would have cost into a right-sized recovery environment.

Phase 04

Realize Value

Run the recovery test. A plan counts only once it is proven, and it is re-tested as systems change.

What gets protected

All of your data is protected. Only critical services stand by.

Illustration: a mid-size utility

Tier	Example services	Protection	Recovery target
1 · Must survive	Outage and dispatch, billing and payments, GIS asset maps, identity and network services	Standby recovery environment	Hours
2 · Important	Reporting, engineering and document systems, email	Protected copy	Days
3 · Everything else	Development and test, training systems, historical video and records	Archive copy	When needed

Illustrative only. An organization with 200 servers and 500 TB might place 15 servers and 40 TB in Tier 1. Your tiers, sizes, and targets come from your own recovery design and are confirmed by test.

Matched to what you run

A recovery site that fits your production

HPE Private Cloud serves as a full recovery site: compute, platform, and storage, ready to run Tier 1 services. Replication is chosen to match what is already in production.

HPE in production

HPE Private Cloud as the recovery site

A matched platform keeps failover and failback simpler. HPE Zerto replicates virtual machines continuously to the recovery site.

NetApp in production

NetApp at the recovery site

SnapMirror replicates data from your production NetApp storage to the recovery site, with locked copies alongside.

Other platforms

Mixed environments

HPE Zerto replicates at the hypervisor level, independent of the hardware underneath, so mixed environments can recover onto HPE Private Cloud.

Replication methods and supported platforms are confirmed for each environment during recovery design.

What is included

From design to proven recovery

Recovery design

The 4R assessment, dependency map, tiers, and recovery targets. A defined engagement, and the basis for everything that follows.

Recovery environment

Subscriptions sized to the approved design, and a recovery site arranged: colocation or a second site you already have.

Testing and stewardship

An initial recovery test, periodic re-tests, and right-sizing at every renewal as your systems change.

Delivered on

HPE Private Cloud and NetApp

Octo8 designs and stewards. Our technology partners deliver, operate, and support the infrastructure under their own service commitments.

HPE Private Cloud

Runs the services that must keep running, on private infrastructure sited in a colocation facility or a location you choose.

HPE or NetApp storage

Holds the protected copies. Choose HPE storage or NetApp, based on what you already run and prefer.

Octo8

Designs the environment, sizes the subscriptions, runs the tests, and right-sizes at every renewal. No infrastructure on our books.

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Find out what your organization cannot lose

A first conversation covers what you run today, what recovery you have, and what a right-sized design would look like.