This morning, Google Cloud had problems in its London region. Banking apps struggled. Retail and delivery sites were hit. Court video links dropped out.
Most of those organisations did nothing wrong. They built on a big, trusted platform. The platform had a bad day.
That’s the risk of putting everything in one place. One provider. One region. One thing that can break.
And the data layer is where it hurts most. If your database is unreachable, your application is down. It doesn’t matter how good everything in front of it is.
That’s why we built our Db2 Hybrid Cloud HADR Clusters service.
Db2 HADR keeps a live standby copy of your database. In a hybrid cluster, that standby doesn’t have to sit next to the primary. It can be on-prem, in a cloud, in a different cloud, or all of them at once. If one location fails, Db2 can fail over to another.
We also test it. A DR plan you’ve never tried is a guess.
Three questions to ask your team today:
- Where does our Db2 actually run?
- What happens if that cloud region goes dark?
- When did we last prove failover works?
If you don’t like the answers, talk to us or find out more about Db2 Hybrid Cloud HADR Clusters.