Detailed project case study

Disaster Recovery & Geo-Separated Failover Design

A resilient continuity approach using geo-separated virtualised environments, hybrid infrastructure and network failover planning.

Portfolio headline

Designed a geo-separated failover and disaster recovery approach to protect availability, reduce operational risk and strengthen business continuity.

01

Context

Critical services depended on infrastructure whose recovery paths, geographic separation and ownership needed to be clearer and more dependable.

02

My mandate

Designed a geo-separated failover and disaster recovery approach to protect availability, reduce operational risk and strengthen business continuity.

03

Scope

  • Enterprise infrastructure
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • simplehuman

Selected technologies

  • VMware vSphere
  • Windows Server
  • Hybrid infrastructure
  • Network failover
  • Geo-separation
  • DR / BCP
  • Recovery testing
04

Key decisions

  • Mapped critical services, dependencies, recovery paths and operational ownership.
05

What the team delivered

  • Designed geo-separated virtualised environments across hybrid and physical hosts.
  • Improved network failover planning, recovery documentation and continuity testing.
06

Outcome

  • Improved resilience across critical business services.
  • Reduced ambiguity in recovery responsibilities and procedures.
  • Strengthened business continuity through clearer failover patterns.
07

Evidence

Public details are limited to the operational record and outcomes that can be discussed safely. Supporting evidence is available in interview where appropriate.

08

What this demonstrates

Resilience is an operating capability, not a backup product. The design connected infrastructure, people, recovery procedures and business priorities.