In modern enterprise IT environments, infrastructure restoration alone is not enough to guarantee business continuity. While VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) rapidly restores underlying virtual machines. However, without intelligent, end-to-end orchestration, critical business applications often remain offline.
This solution brief explores how Automic Automation bridges the critical gap between infrastructure recovery and complete operational resilience. Read on to discover how application-aware sequencing, automated smoke testing, and governed self-service streamline disaster recovery while satisfying strict global regulatory mandates.
Achieving true operational resilience requires moving beyond basic infrastructure replication to ensure that business services are fully functional, properly sequenced, and thoroughly validated. As highlighted in this solution brief, Automic works seamlessly alongside VCF to automate the last mile of recovery, eliminating chaos and reducing recovery resource requirements by up to 80%.
By accelerating RTO from days to hours, ensuring transactional data integrity, and providing audit-ready compliance reporting for mandates like DORA and NIS 2, Automic empowers enterprise organizations to safeguard critical services, satisfy stringent regulatory standards, and maximize their overall cloud infrastructure investments.
A: While VCF manages infrastructure replication and clean room delivery, Automic orchestrates the "last mile" of application recovery—sequencing databases, reconfiguring networks, launching applications in dependency order, and validating functional readiness.
A: Automic helps organizations satisfy a range of strict compliance mandates, including DORA, CISA CIRCIA, NIS 2, SEC, FCA, and BaFin. The solution orchestrates automated, isolated disaster recovery drills and generates centralized, immutable audit logs.
A: By replacing manual playbooks and chaotic war room meetings with automated, application-aware orchestration, Automic shrinks recovery time objectives (RTO) by up to 75% and cuts required recovery resources by 80%.
A: Yes, application owners can initiate governed, isolated disaster recovery drills inside VCF sandboxes, without any impact on live production environments. These drills can be initiated via self-service portals in tools like ServiceNow.