Automated IT Recovery System Matching Outage Scope
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current IT environments lack the tools and infrastructure to manage availability and recovery processes effectively, leading to unpredictable downtime, high labor costs, and inflexible responses to failures, as customers manually align IT infrastructure with changing business needs and technologies, resulting in complex and often unsuccessful integration of high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for programmatically analyzing failures within an IT environment to determine the necessary resources for recovery, matching the scope of the outage, and dynamically generating recovery workflows to ensure minimal impact and achieve business objectives, such as the Business Resiliency Management System, which integrates availability management with business operations and provides dynamic recovery actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual management techniques are used to align IT infrastructure with business needs, then flexibility to adapt to changes is achieved, but labor costs increase and response time decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical management processes with an automated computer-implemented system that programmatically analyzes failures, determines root causes, and executes recovery operations. This substitution eliminates human labor while maintaining adaptability through programmable logic that can be updated to reflect changing business needs and infrastructure configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service automation where the IT infrastructure manages its own recovery processes. The computer-implemented method autonomously detects failures, analyzes their scope, determines root causes, and executes appropriate recovery operations without human intervention, allowing the system to serve itself in maintaining business continuity.
2Reliability
If disparate point products are integrated into an end-to-end solution, then comprehensive coverage of failure scopes is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disparate point products into a single integrated computer-implemented system. By combining failure detection, analysis, root cause determination, and recovery execution capabilities into one unified platform, the system achieves comprehensive coverage while reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate solutions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is designed as a universal platform that can handle multiple types of failures across different scopes (application-level, infrastructure-level, site-level). The computer-implemented method provides multi-functional capabilities to analyze and recover various failure scenarios through a single system, eliminating the need for specialized point products for each failure type.
3Measurement precision
If manual assessment of impact is performed for changes, then accuracy in determining recovery scope is achieved, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual impact assessment with automated programmatic analysis. The computer-implemented system automatically determines the scope and impact of changes by analyzing infrastructure configurations, dependencies, and failure patterns, achieving accurate recovery scope determination without manual intervention and significantly improving productivity.
Data Source
AI summary
Recovery processing is defined that matches the scope of an outage. A programmatic analysis of the resources that have been impacted, of implications of the failure and what degradations have occurred is performed to construct an appropriate level of recovery. This includes selecting the appropriate set of resources to be recovered. Recovery operations are selected based on the current state of the environment.