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Disaster recovery requires quick and efficient replication of critical business data to a secondary site. SyncIQ delivers high performance, asynchronous replication of data, providing protection from both local site and regional disasters, to satisfy a range of recovery objectives. SyncIQ has a robust policy-driven engine that allows customization of replication datasets to minimize system impact while still meeting data protection requirements. SyncIQ automated data failover and failback reduces the time, complexity, and risks involved with transferring operations between a primary and secondary site, in order to meet an organization’s recovery objectives. This functionality can be crucial to the success of a disaster recovery plan.