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Automating The Disaster Recovery Process

We had an interesting discussion the other day with one of our customers, a very large SaaS organization. They presented to us the automation process they have created using Nolio for the recovery process of their main application.

Their situation was that in case of a communication problem or an application problem in their main Data Center, they needed to switch to their Disaster Recovery site so that the customers will keep working while they fix the problem in the main Data Center.

Without automation, they had about 50 minutes downtime to sync their Disaster Recovery site, make the application functioning as well as the main Data Center, and make the transfer transparent to their customers.

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Streamline QA Operations With The Nolio Automation Center

Today I’d like to show you how you can use the Nolio Automation Center in your QA lab to make your deployment easier and perform your tests faster.

When I joined Nolio a few months ago (I can’t believe it’s been 9 months already!) Eran, our CEO, showed me a brief demo of the Nolio Automation Center. He talked about the way the application can automate anything IT does on a regular basis, from deployment, through daily installment, to disaster recovery, and the list goes on and on.

I completely understood what he meant by saying how it can make the IT guy’s life much easier, but I was also thinking, “What about the people over at QA?  They also need to do the same things!”

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