Dubai Airport Free Zone (DAFZ) has invested in a disaster recovery (DR) site at eHDF’s Tier-3 data centre facility.

DAFZ is an established free zone with over 1,450 business partners. Prior to the implementation, DAFZ did not have an off-site disaster recovery solution in place, which put its data to risk during a major disaster. DAFZ’s partnership with eHDF was driven by the need to implement a business continuity plan in the event of a major disaster.

As part of the solution, eHDF provided DAFZ with a DR hosting environment at its secure data centre. In addition, a replication solution from eHDF’s partner Double-Take ensures real time replication from the production to the DR site hosted at eHDF’s data centres. The DR site hosts an exact replica of critical applications, and in case of any major disaster, there would be a seamless failover to the DR site.