Disaster Recovery That Fits Your Cloud-Native Workflow
API-first, agentless, true any-to-any cloud portability. Integrate into your IaC pipelines, trigger DR tests from CI/CD, automate failover on health check failures. DR becomes a first-class infrastructure concern.
Why Legacy DR Fails DevOps Teams
Three reasons traditional DR becomes the manual bottleneck in otherwise-automated infrastructure.
No API / Automation Support
Legacy DR requires manual point-and-click. No Terraform modules, no API endpoints, no webhooks. DR becomes the one thing you can't automate. Datamotive is API-first: every operation available via REST API. Terraform provider for policy-as-code. Webhook support for event-driven automation.
Pipeline impact: DR becomes the manual bottleneck in otherwise-automated infrastructure. Engineers wait on ops teams to execute recovery operations that should trigger programmatically.
Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Most cloud-native DR locks you to one provider: AWS Elastic DR works only in AWS, Azure Site Recovery only in Azure. Multi-cloud resilience is blocked by tool limitations. Datamotive delivers true any-to-any portability: VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP - all supported natively without re-architecture.
Pipeline impact: Multi-cloud or hybrid strategies require separate DR tools per environment. No unified recovery orchestration. 58% of CIOs cite single-vendor dependency as a key strategic risk.
DR Testing Requires Risky Change Windows
Traditional DR testing either risks production or requires weekend maintenance windows. Engineering teams skip tests (compliance risk) or lose velocity. Datamotive provides isolated network environments for DR workloads - run chaos engineering safely, with no production impact and no change windows.
Pipeline impact: Engineering teams skip DR tests to preserve velocity, creating compliance risk. Or they lose sprint velocity to maintenance windows that block the entire team.
No API / Automation Support
Legacy DR requires manual point-and-click. No Terraform modules, no API endpoints, no webhooks. DR becomes the one thing you can't automate. Datamotive is API-first: every operation available via REST API. Terraform provider for policy-as-code. Webhook support for event-driven automation.
Pipeline impact: DR becomes the manual bottleneck in otherwise-automated infrastructure. Engineers wait on ops teams to execute recovery operations that should trigger programmatically.
Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Most cloud-native DR locks you to one provider: AWS Elastic DR works only in AWS, Azure Site Recovery only in Azure. Multi-cloud resilience is blocked by tool limitations. Datamotive delivers true any-to-any portability: VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP - all supported natively without re-architecture.
Pipeline impact: Multi-cloud or hybrid strategies require separate DR tools per environment. No unified recovery orchestration. 58% of CIOs cite single-vendor dependency as a key strategic risk.
DR Testing Requires Risky Change Windows
Traditional DR testing either risks production or requires weekend maintenance windows. Engineering teams skip tests (compliance risk) or lose velocity. Datamotive provides isolated network environments for DR workloads - run chaos engineering safely, with no production impact and no change windows.
Pipeline impact: Engineering teams skip DR tests to preserve velocity, creating compliance risk. Or they lose sprint velocity to maintenance windows that block the entire team.
Built for Automation
Four engineering-friendly capabilities that make disaster recovery pipeline-native.
REST API - Full Platform Control
Every dashboard operation available via HTTP endpoints. Python, Golang, and Shell SDKs for custom workflows. Every DR operation is programmable - no GUI dependency. Integrate failover triggers directly into your incident response runbooks.
Terraform Provider - DR as Infrastructure Code
Manage DR policies as Terraform resources. Replication schedules and failover orchestration as code. Native HCL support - not a third-party wrapper. Replication policies, test schedules, and recovery targets all version-controlled alongside your infrastructure.
Event-Driven Automation
Webhook support for monitoring integration. Trigger failover on external health check failures. PagerDuty, Slack, and CloudWatch integrations built-in. POST to /v1/recovery-plans/{id}/test to launch isolated test environments from your pipeline - webhook reports completion and RTO/RPO results.
Observability Integration
Prometheus metrics export: RPO/RTO SLA status, replication lag. Grafana dashboard templates pre-built. Native cloud monitoring: CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Stackdriver. DR health becomes a first-class signal in your existing observability stack.
Works with Your Stack
Datamotive fits into the tools your platform team already runs - source, target, and everything in between.
Source Environments
- VMware vSphere
- Nutanix AHV
- AWS EC2 / Azure VMs
- GCP Compute / IBM Cloud
- OpenStack / Citrix Hypervisor
Target Environments
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- IBM Cloud
- Nutanix / VMware on-prem
Security & Compliance
- AES-256 at rest / TLS 1.2+
- Customer-managed encryption (CMEK)
- Timestamped DR test reports
- SIEM integration / audit logging
Chaos Engineering
- Zone failure testing
- Network partition simulations
- Performance benchmarking in DR env
- Multi-region pattern validation
Engineering Team Feedback
"We've integrated Datamotive's API into our disaster recovery runbooks. Failover is now part of our automated incident response - no more waiting on ops teams to click through UIs at 2am."
"We've integrated Datamotive's API into our disaster recovery runbooks. Failover is now part of our automated incident response - no more waiting on ops teams to click through UIs at 2am."
Ready to Automate DR?
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