Explore what the Kyndryl Intelligent Recovery Service has to offer.
In today’s dynamic IT landscape, Kyndryl customers operate complex hybrid environments with heterogeneous technologies that support critical business operations. These environments demand strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), particularly around Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), to ensure that essential systems are restored swiftly when incidents occur. To address these needs, Kyndryl customers require a comprehensive solution that provides rapid recovery automation and seamless orchestration across diverse technologies. This solution must also be application-aware to ensure a unified and consistent recovery experience.Kyndryl Intelligent Recovery Service (KIRS) is designed to address these challenges. It offers Kyndryl customers a modern, cloud-based disaster recovery orchestrated solution that provides high-speed, automated recovery processes, easy integration with existing Kyndryl platforms, and a refreshed user experience. KIRS leverages key functionalities like insights, Identity and Access Management (IAM), audit, and automation engines—to deliver a seamless user experience, ensuring businesses maintain uptime and protect vital resources effectively.
Key Features
Comprehensive Resiliency Metrics and Monitoring
RPO and RTO Insights
: RPO and RTO metrics help businesses maintain optimal data recovery points and minimize recovery time for critical systems.
Resiliency Health Monitoring
: Track the health of your resiliency configurations with dynamic resiliency health status to ensure systems are recovery-ready.
Replication Health & Backup Status
: Provides a granular view of data replication health and backup completion status, enabling proactive issue detection.
Alerts
: Monitors the predefined resiliency matrix and raises alerts with different criticalities based on deviation.
Kibana-Powered Dashboards for In-Depth Observability
SLO Monitoring
: Service Level Objective (SLO) dashboards provide continuous insight into performance against predefined recovery goals.
Recovery Execution Status
: This dashboard provides the execution report of drill or recovery workflows for transparency into recovery operations.
Alerts Observability
: A centralized alerts dashboard provides immediate visibility into potential risks and resiliency gaps.
Cyber Recovery Dashboard
: Security-focused dashboard provides visibility into cyber resilience and recovery readiness.
Modular Architecture for Customizable Recovery Solutions
KIRS is built around four key modules, enabling tailored recovery solutions that can grow with your organization’s needs:
Discovery and Configuration
: Ensures seamless automated workload onboarding and configuration to align with resiliency monitoring and recovery objectives.
Insights
: Provides detailed analysis of the resiliency matrix, offering visibility into snapshot health, historical data, and trends that influence recovery effectiveness.
Recovery Orchestration
: Delivers orchestrated, automated recovery capabilities, supporting both single and multi-workload recovery to streamline complex recovery operations.
Drill Orchestration
: Orchestrated drill along with pre-check & post-check support to ensure recovery readiness, DR compliance, and seamless recovery.
Key Benefits
Kyndryl Intelligent Recovery Service (KIRS) provides a resiliency service delivery platform designed to be robust, adaptable, and highly automated, meeting the requirements of modern business environments. The following are key highlights and benefits of KIRS:
Unified Resilience Management: Kyndryl Bridge offers a single interface for managing resilience and recovery.
Automated Workload Resiliency: Simplifies workload management with automated onboarding, monitoring, and orchestration.
Customizable Solution Experience: Offers flexibility to customize services, adding value across the service delivery chain.
With its emphasis on enhancing operational efficiency, automation, and service orchestration, the Kyndryl Intelligent Recovery Service is set to elevate standards in resiliency automation, empowering organizations to meet evolving business and compliance requirements with confidence.