It's hard keeping track of all the elements of your IT landscape. Our discovery and dependency mapping service gives you an accurate blueprint to work from.
Now, IT is more complex than ever before. Your applications may sit in a mix of physical and cloud environments, provided in-house or by external vendors. Complexity grows as your employees continue to buy and use a variety of devices, software and services without your knowledge.
How do you get an accurate account of your complicated IT landscape—a single version of the truth needed to successfully manage, leverage and recover your environment?
The answer is Dependency Mapping (DDM) from Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS).
Features and Benefits
This automated tool quickly delivers a true picture of your production environment—including devices, servers, applications and their dependencies—for enhanced visibility into, and control over, your entire IT ecosystem.
All IT transformations, strategic projects, growth and business development plans start from knowing where you are today. Rather than relying on archaic spreadsheets or extensive audits, the DDM tool uses automated scanning to discover all IT assets and applications to create an accurate, auditable account of your production environment. As a result, you have a clear view and a solid foundation for future initiatives.
One small change can impact your entire IT ecosystem and the mission-critical applications and processes it supports: Like a house of cards, with each card dependent on the other, pulling one out disrupts all the rest. The DDM tool documents these dependencies, so you can avoid disruptions as you make changes to your production environment and keep business processes flowing in recovery.
With a full understanding of your environment, you can ensure it is properly protected as you plan and configure a recovery solution—right-sized to meet your unique needs and to eliminate expensive over-provisioning. By scanning with the DDM tool on a regular basis, you can keep primary and recovery environments in sync for a fully recoverable production environment.
Nearly 80% of unplanned downtime is caused by IT failures and power outages, but only 41% of business are testing their DR plan regularly*
*Source: https://www.information-age.com/test-their-disaster-recovery-123481245/