True Disaster Recovery is taking data from one site to another where it will be safe and separate from the event you encounter. There are many factors that separate a great DR plan from good one such as infrastructure, cloud provider, replication technology, cost, etc. Though every business prioritizes their plan differently, this checklist is essential to make sure your DR plan is the best it can be for business continuity:
Hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world leverage virtualization technologies to deliver their IT services and applications on scalable and efficient platforms. Regardless of the virtualization platform, the same key challenges of implementing a complete business continuity plan and disaster recovery strategy for virtualized applications remain.
We’re all used to buying insurance: home, car, life, and the list goes on. In business, we insure our data with backups and disaster recovery against power outages, fires, hurricanes, and the employee that just happens to make a wrong click in the wrong spot. We pay insurance for the event that we hope never happens, and when you think about it, it’s basically a sunk cost until you need it - praying you never do. That brings up the question:
