How to supplement a disaster recovery and business continuity backup solution with the cloud
Work From Home and company shutdowns put a strain on most organizations’ backup and recovery processes. There are more points where data is accessed and modified and fewer people in centralized locations that have a complete picture of the total DR/BC requirements are.
CIOs and IT professionals need to improve their ability to recover from system failures and data loss, especially to protect from natural weather and environmental disasters like hurricanes and manmade disasters like terrorist attacks. Building a comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure which considers WFH and shutdowns is cost-prohibitive for many organizations, the cloud is a perfect cost-effective solution. The cloud can supplement an enterprise’s backup disaster recovery and business continuity and be executed from anywhere.
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Local backup is the first line of defense. As hurricanes have proved when it comes to performing backup and recovery, the best performance is delivered by using resources local (on-premise) to the systems and data being protected. However, in an extended outage, you need the cloud-like a major weather event if power is out and the data center is down a more extensive solution is required. WFH adds complexity to the location of data and the synchronization of information and data assets.
Know the systems and the dependencies when servers are down. Local backup does not work when servers are out of commission, then a cloud-based backup is a necessary line of defense. You should know which servers and data an organization’s day-to-day operations will need when they are not operational. Make sure they are protected with a cloud backup and restore.
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