Low Risk, On-Demand
Disaster Recovery Plans for IT

When an outage occurs, swift service restoration is crucial. However, many IT organizations struggle to piece together application data stored across multiple systems and create coherent dependency maps.

How can IT improve response times to meet RTOs, SLAs, and regulatory demands? Additionally, how can they furnish proof of recovery during site failover, particularly in banking and other critical sectors?

TransitionManager® allows you to promptly assess outage impact, identify affected applications, and generate dynamic runbooks for coordinated app recovery. Create recovery plans for full site failover to uphold service continuity and generate an audit trail detailing tasks, time, date, and task owner for transparency and accountability.

Low Risk, On-Demand
Disaster Recovery Plans for IT

When an outage occurs, swift service restoration is crucial. However, many IT organizations struggle to piece together application data stored across multiple systems and create coherent dependency maps.

How can IT improve response times to meet RTOs, SLAs, and regulatory demands? Additionally, how can they furnish proof of recovery during site failover, particularly in banking and other critical sectors?

TransitionManager® allows you to promptly assess outage impact, identify affected applications, and generate dynamic runbooks for coordinated app recovery. Create recovery plans for full site failover to uphold service continuity and generate an audit trail detailing tasks, time, date, and task owner for transparency and accountability.

One-Click DR

Reduce risk and lower costs by building ready-anytime plans within TransitionManager® that unify and streamline your Disaster Recovery (DR) toolchain. The platform was built to integrate with native and third-party tools, including AWS Application Migration Services (MGN) and reduce the complexity of DR, turning it into an easy, “one-click” process.

TransitionManager® orchestrates every phase of complex migrations from discovery of the environment and analysis, to planning, failover testing, and full failover/failback disaster recovery execution.

And the difference is measurable. It eliminates manual input and the associated errors that typically result in redo’s traditionally encountered in DR processes. It streamlines the hand-off between teams and tools in a single, unified, intelligence-driven platform.

The Results

For one enterprise customer, TransitionManager® orchestrated use of AWS MGN, testing and failover operations without affecting primary systems. By leveraging automation, cost were drastically reduced, operational impacts were minimized, and the number of necessary technical resources were reduced compared to typical DR efforts. With the ability to view through a single pane of glass and make collaborative decisions through a single automation portal for all the required tools in the process. This automated connectivity between teams and tools enabled an accelerated, repeatable process, moving more workloads faster.

  • 98% reduction of manual entry errors
  • 50% reduction in number of resources (often highly skilled, highly paid)
  • 38% reduction in technical labor costs, reducing manual steps from 20 to 2
  • 85% reduction in event execution time

Rapid App Mapping for DR

Most IT organizations have many data sources, but no way to look at the data in one place. And they have many tools that automate migration and recovery – but these tools just move apps and workloads, and they need you to provide the configuration information and specific information about which assets move, in what order, and where they move to and from.  TransitionManager® solves these problems by creating an actionable set of data, and provides IT with a visual, app-centric view of complex, hybrid environments.

Working with your team, we will incorporate critical business facts, including RTOs, SLAs, and compliance requirements. We will provide an assessment of your apps and their supporting infrastructure and evaluate how they align with business criticality and risk levels. Your team will be able to identify exposure, make smart decisions about your apps to meet business and legal requirements. 

 

Regional Bank Dramatically Improves DR Preparedness and Reduces Costs

The Challenge
Happy State Bank in Amarillo Texas recently launched a major initiative to consolidate different databases, refresh their infrastructure and build a resilient IT environment, able to execute a failover plan without risk of disrupting services to customers.
The Solution
HSB relies on TDS’s TransitionManager software for its dynamic dependency analysis and automated runbook technology to quickly prepare for regular DR tests, validate the assets, teams and dependencies between tasks and systems, and execute seamlessly. This has resulted in an RTO reduction from 13 hours to just under 6 hours. The staff requirements to complete these disaster recovery requirements have also been reduced from 1,500 hours to 750 hours annually.

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