Building a secondary recovery environment outside Microsoft Azure

The challenge

A property management company runs a business-critical MRI environment in Microsoft Azure. The environment includes SQL databases and multiple application components that staff depend on for day-to-day property operations.

Azure provides a resilient platform, but the client wanted an additional layer of business continuity outside its primary cloud environment, avoiding having the production environment and recovery strategy entirely dependent on the same cloud platform.

What Bang IT did

Bang IT designed a secondary recovery environment within Bang IT Cloud. The client’s primary MRI environment continues to operate in Microsoft Azure, while its recovery strategy includes infrastructure hosted on a separate cloud platform.

This provides another location from which critical systems and data can be recovered should the primary Azure environment suffer a major outage or another event requiring disaster recovery.

The outcome

The client now has a disaster recovery strategy that extends beyond its primary cloud provider. Rather than placing the production environment and recovery capability entirely within one platform, the organisation has an additional recovery option hosted within Bang IT Cloud.

This provides greater flexibility in planning for serious infrastructure incidents while allowing the primary MRI workload to continue benefiting from Microsoft Azure.