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Disaster Recovery
It is essential for organisations to be well prepared for all types of disasters, whether in the form of hardware failures, cyberattacks, or even natural disasters. The business continuity of a company in the event of a disaster is dependent, to a major extent, on its ability to replicate its systems and data. Loss of data can have a serious financial impact on organisations and may even damage their reputation due to a loss of customer confidence. Hence, proper planning and the creation of a roadmap for dealing with potential disasters are essential for minimising the negative impact on a company in the long term.
Disaster Recovery Plan for Cloud Services
A disaster recovery plan takes into account a preparation for a disaster and the response to it, in addition to the steps required to ensure the system/operation restore. Global IT organisations experienced at least one major outage or systems failure in the past few years that compelled them to have a proper disaster recovery plan in place.
Disaster recovery planning takes into account
- DR plans need to separately account for both data and programmes. While data includes customer accounts and business relationship records, programmes include the software that runs an organisation’s operations.
- Dependencies between software must be identified, as certain programmes may require additional software to be loaded before the existing software is operable.
- It is also important to identify the key personnel who will be involved in restoring the systems and data.
- Organisations in some sectors such as healthcare may also need to ensure regulatory compliance and security before resuming operations with the recovered data.
Advantages of DRaaS
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) includes several capabilities that are not found in the traditional backup and disaster recovery methods. These include:
- Reliability, flexibility and high performance
- Effective addressing of mobility and portability challenges
- Consumption of much lesser operational resources
- Rapid and immediate recovery of data in the event of a disaster
- Quick restoration of normal operations
- Significant savings in terms of software licences and hardware