Testing Cloud Disaster recovery once a year is not helpful. If we are talking mission-critical we are talking second-to-minutes for failover. We’re talking continuity, we are not actually talking about a restore that may take you days or weeks.
Automate the recovery of Applications and systems to ensure continuity of complex business operations
If you have data being fed from different part of the organization into a single either mainframe or large application, whether you’re doing supply chain management procurement or happen to have a large global supply chain, if you’re doing any kind of sale from different parts of the world updating to the same database, all of those, If that database is mission critical everything supporting it is mission-critical, everything feeding it is mission critical.
How are you going to manage all that – in the far flung locations?
In order to create a continuity or business disaster recovery plan that is actually going to work in seconds and minutes not hours and days or weeks, that is actually a complicated thing to actually make work. Probably relatively expensive if you attempt to do it yourself.
You also can’t wait for the one disaster every five years to figure out whether your DR is going to work, you really do need to test it. And like that testing your own DR plan with all your own equipment in your own datacenter and your redundant datacenter.
Are you going to manage that across your own environment? If your company sells cookware should you be in the business of managing multiple datacenters for DR? You sell cookware. Maybe you should sell cookware and let the DR people manage it – In minutes and seconds not hours and days.
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Whether enterprises pursue cloud-based business continuity and disaster recovery plans or opt for an on-premise solution, it makes sense to work with a disaster recovery and continuity services provider that has the experience to conduct an accurate initial vulnerability assessment and formulate policies and plans that include selecting the DR technologies most appropriate for an organization’s IT environment, needs and budget.