Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Why Process and Procedure are Everything
September 13, 2015
Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Editorial Staff.
In a recent blog article, I discussed the difference between cloud backup and cloud disaster recovery (or “DR”). In a nutshell, with cloud backup, you basically pay a third-party service provider a monthly fee to have them back up your firm’s data and store it in the cloud, so it can be restored on-demand at a later date.
With cloud DR, you gain the option to restore your data/server images to an always-on offsite virtual cloud environment capable of running live production servers. Your recovery time dramatically shrinks with this option. So, is the reduced recovery time with cloud disaster recovery achieved solely through superior technology, or does this recovery advantage also depend on human processes?…
Although the right technology definitely enables a recovery, a flawed process can both delay the system recovery and even sabotage it altogether. Here’s what I mean…
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