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Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution forSAP Environments

Comprehensive Disaster Recovery Designed for SAP Software

Think Disaster Recovery is Too Complex

and Expensive? Think Again…As an SAP user, you understand that maintaining business

continuance and data integrity in the event of an outage

is a necessity. And you know the consequences of downtime:

the missed sales opportunities, the reduced productivity,

the suspended customer service – all of which negatively

affect your bottom line. But, the unique architecture of your

SAP solution often makes traditional disaster recovery (DR)

solutions too complex and cost-prohibitive for you to consider.

Since the typical SAP framework is characterized by multiple

federated databases and numerous application stacks, the

prospect of mirroring your production IT infrastructure at a

DR site means you would have to essentially double the size

of your environment with redundant databases, servers, and

networks. For obvious reasons, including overall administration

costs, the duplicate infrastructure approach does not speak

to your needs.

Many organizations choose to rely on more time-honored

methods – such as backing up to tape – that require constant

maintenance and heavy manual intervention in the event of

a real disaster. In fact, leading analysts estimate that recovery

using such methods can involve as many as 500 manual

steps – with each one representing an opportunity for costly

glitches and human error.

A New Way of ThinkingUnisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments

sidesteps the old ways of thinking that endorse infrastructure

redundancy and manual processes. Instead, our solution

allows you to use the development and test resources you

already own, which dramatically reduces the need for

dedicated DR hardware – while speeding time to recovery to

under 30 minutes. And, since Unisys Disaster Recovery for

SAP Environments automates the failover and failback

processes, you don’t have to take the risk of recovering viahundreds of manual steps, which could involve multiple

days – and exponentially more man hours – to complete.

Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments includes

real-time data replication and recovery, accelerated application

and database server rebuilding, and DR workflow automation.

These three components work in concert during an unplanned

outage to bring your production environment back online

using re-purposed hardware in significantly less time and

cost than is possible with traditional methods – helping you

achieve aggressive recovery point and recovery timeobjectives (RPO/RTO).

Key Features

• Data replication and compression

• Server re-purposing the instant an outage occurs

• Quick and accurate failover based on pre-defined criteria

• Automated failback to the original environment

• On-demand DR testing capability

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Real-Time, Cost-Effective Data Replication

and RecoveryA modular solution that runs on most common operating

systems, hardware, virtualization, and storage platforms and

seamlessly integrates with your current DR infrastructure,

Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments

offers flexible, real-time data replication.

Whenever a data-corrupting incident occurs, you want to

have confidence in your ability to recover every last bit of

important data, and with Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution

for SAP Environments' rollback capabilities, you can. In fact,

with functionality that enables you to specify different lag,

bandwidth, and compression policies for each application,

you can roll back your data to within seconds of the outage

– whether one landscape fails or your whole system goes down.

With Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments,

you can prioritize the recovery of each landscape according

to your overall business continuance strategy. In other words,

if both your business intelligence (BI) and enterprise resource

planning (ERP) landscapes were to fail, you could configure

the solution to direct all resources toward the recovery of

your ERP module. Then, once that business-critical landscape

is up and running, the BI landscape recovery will begin.

And because Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments

is both storage and operating system independent, you have

the flexibility to configure your DR infrastructure according to

your unique needs. Rather than be forced to purchase the

new hardware and high-end storage that many DR solutions

require, you can mix and match components to strike a

balance between performance and cost.

Additionally, the solution supports an unlimited distance

between your production and DR sites, giving you peace of

mind that you’ll be able to consistently meet your RPOs and

RTOs – even if your backup location is half a world away.

Accelerated Application and

Database Server RebuildingUnisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments

enables data center managers to rapidly re-purpose servers

and their connectivity to appropriate networks and storage

without repeatedly reworking or manually configuring the

data center infrastructure.

With support for a wide array of servers, operating systems,

virtualization solutions, and data center infrastructures,

Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments makes

server re-purposing adaptive and transparent. In other

words, the solution ensures that when an outage occurs,

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your failover servers will come online with the right network

configuration and storage access – regardless of your

infrastructure makeup.

In addition, Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments

can re-purpose any physical or virtual machine and associated

connectivity in the time it takes to boot a system – reducing

your exposure to costly downtime and enabling you to

achieve aggressive RTOs. And, since any DR method for SAP

Environments should leverage physical and virtualized server

resources, our solution provides a unique, singular approach

that handles both equally – and with the same tools.

The solution also includes automated detection and 3 of

the manual intervention required by traditional DR methods.

By empowering you to create failover scenarios based on

specific criteria (i.e., you could set the solution to automatically

engage the recovery process whenever it identifies a failurein more than one landscape), Unisys Disaster Recovery for

SAP Environments seamlessly joins the convenience of

automation with extensive administrative control – helping

you avoid the costs associated with building and maintaining

DR scripts.

Enhanced Disaster Recovery

Workflow AutomationUnisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments

facilitates the allocation of resources in real time tothe applications and users that need them most, while

continually monitoring service levels. Because your SAP

infrastructure is a complex collection of interdependencies,

your shut-down and re-boot procedures can be quite

cumbersome. Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments

simplifies the recovery process by orchestrating the innumerable

steps in the correct order to gracefully manage the shut-downand boot-up processes – and ensure error-free failover and

failback between your production and DR landscapes.

And because outages do not always necessitate an

“all or nothing” approach to recovery, the solution includes

protection at the landscape level, enabling you to enact the

recovery of a single application stack. Many traditional DR

solutions call for a complete, system-wide failover when

only a critical landscape goes down, but Unisys Disaster

Recovery for SAP Environments gives you the flexibility to

transfer a single, failed application to your DR site without

affecting the rest of the production environment.

Additionally, the solution includes a workflow creation

wizard and in-flight operations dashboard to give you

unlimited control over your DR procedures. The simple to

use, yet comprehensive wizard facilitates the creation of

sophisticated event-condition-action workflows with service

level objectives (SLOs) that tie to your business processes.

And the operations dashboard displays graphical meters

you can view to gauge how your environment performs

relative to your defined policies and service level

agreements (SLAs).

Let’s Talk Numbers

Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments is the most economical DR solution for SAP

users of all sizes, achieving cost-effectiveness by:

• Eliminating the need to purchase additional hardware and high-end storage

• Reducing power consumption and cooling expenses

• Decreasing downtime and related costs

• Cutting down manual processes to improve productivity

If you’d like to know how these benefits translate specifically to your bottom line, contact

us. We’ll analyze your infrastructure and let you know exactly how much money you could

save with Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP Environments.

Email us: [email protected]

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Ensuring the Success of Your

Disaster Recovery PlanThe structure of Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution for SAP

Environments – with its ability to automatically re-purpose

existing hardware and manage the failover/failback processes

– allows for simplified testing of your DR procedures.

Most companies lack the ability to truly measure the

effectiveness of their DR plans, especially if they employ

manual processes that require the testing of hundreds of

steps by dozens of employees. Businesses in this category

often diligently back up their data on a daily basis, while

secretly hoping they will never have to put their recovery process

to the test – because they have no idea if it really works.

Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments gives you

the ability to simulate a disaster and test your ability torecover in a few mouse clicks, enabling you to quickly

and easily assess your business continuance capabilities

against any SLAs you might have. You’ll have peace of mind

that your DR plan works and you’ll know that, no matter what

emergency the world might send your way, you’ll be ready to

bounce right back.

Scaling to Meet Your Business

Continuance NeedsUnisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments is a modular

solution designed to meet your specific business continuity

needs, so you can maintain uptime and operational efficiency

in the event of an emergency or outage. With adaptable

functionality, including real-time data replication and recovery,

accelerated application and database server rebuilding, and

DR workflow automation, it can be scaled to fit seamlessly

into your unique infrastructure.

And, when compared to other DR solutions on the market,

Unisys Disaster Recovery for SAP Environments represents

an excellent value, offering low total costs and minimal time

to recovery. Remote clusters present comparable recovery

times, but create unnecessary costs in new hardware, powerconsumption, and maintenance. On the other hand, traditiona

tape backup solutions have the potential to be inexpensive,

but their manual nature puts critical RTOs out of reach.

By uniting comprehensive DR functionality with a framework

that complements your existing infrastructure and data

replication scheme, Unisys Disaster Recovery Solution for

SAP Environments is the right combination of price and

performance – and a perfect fit for SAP users looking to

secure essential business continuance.

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Compared to remote cluster, disk array and log shipping,

and tape backup solutions, Unisys Disaster Recovery

Solution for SAP Environments offers the best combination

of price and performance.

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