Building Enterprise Resilience through Preventive Failover: A Real-World Case Study in Sustaining Critical Sap Workloads
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15680/IJCTECE.2022.0504004Keywords:
Preventive Failover, Enterprise Resilience, SAP Workload Continuity, Business Continuity, Management (BCM), High Availability Systems, Predictive Infrastructure Monitoring, Disaster Recovery AutomationAbstract
Enterprise resilience has emerged as a characteristic of operational success in the present-day 24 hours a day digital economy. SAP workloads, which are mission-critical to organizations and are used to support finance, logistics, supply chain, and human resource operations, have become more susceptible to downtime involving just a few minutes of downtime and causing considerable financial and reputational losses. The conventional disaster recovery approaches, which are designed around reactive failover and human intervention are not as effective as they used to be in sustaining the degree of continuity that is desired in the contemporary enterprise ecosystems. The given paper provides a practical case study of the role of preventive failover, which is an anticipatory method of system continuity, in keeping the critical SAP workloads running and preventing the business operation interruption.
The paper investigates the architecture of a preventive failover system that would combine predictive monitoring, orchestration of redundancy and intelligent automation to control service disruption before it takes place. The paper examines quantifiable results, i.e. decreased recovery time goals (RTO), enhanced system availability and streamlined operational spending through a composite enterprise case of a multinational manufacturing and logistics organization. The study also shows the use of predictive infrastructure management alongside automated failover mechanisms to reduce risk, improve compliance congruency and build customer confidence.
Consolidating the divide between reactive recovery and proactive resilience through preventive failover, a paradigmatic framework of maintaining SAP workloads in high-performance settings is achieved. The results have been added to enterprise IT governance with preventative failover not being only a technical improvement but a strategic facilitator of digital continuity and sustained competitiveness. The case validates that proactive investing in resilience is beyond system recovery, it is the basis of sustainable enterprise performance.
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