Trends: Cloud-based IT Disaster Recovery
This is a series discussing about What Are the Current Trend for IT Disaster Recovery?
DRP-5000 Course Reading: This blog served as pre-reading for participants attending the IT DR Expert Implementer course or course code DRP-5000. You are expected to discuss about the current and future trends affecting IT disaster recovery (DR) and briefly share your immediate and future investment on you IT DR strategy based on a series of latest trends and it will be facilitated by an IT DR expert.
Major Trend Using Cloud-based IT DR
IT Disaster Recovery (DR) methods for protecting IT infrastructure and data are going through a period of substantial change. Today businesses need to do more than protect against failure to deliver services.
In addition, the recent cyber security threats are becoming increasingly common and getting more advanced, the IT DR strategies and solutions need to provide protection and fast recovery from all of these different types of threats causing downtime and data loss.
Major Move to Cloud by Organisations
It is observed that though businesses still have onsite infrastructure, they are relying less on physical media for their backups, and prefer to host its backups in the cloud. The main reason for this shift is the cost of physical storage, storing the physical media, and transportation to offsite locations.
Hence, many organisations have moved their entire infrastructure to the cloud, it is observed that the backup solutions would also move to the cloud. This applies to the less regulated industries.
Decline in Cost for Cloud Storage
The cost of cloud storage has declined over the last several years and organizations are taking advantage of it to make cloud the most widely used long-term retention option.
Require Shorter Time to Create IT DR Plan
Deploying on the cloud allows organisations and individual users to create IT DR plans for their IT matters in just a fraction of the time it would take them otherwise.
Run Production Systems on Cloud
Cloud-based IT DR plan can be used to back up and restore workloads that run on-premise as well as those hosted in the cloud. With this development, organisation have to run its production systems in the cloud in order to take advantage of the cloud-based IT DR capability.
Bring confident to Businesses with Quick Restoration of Workload
IT DR in cloud computing has revolutionized the way an organisation approach its data recovery. Knowing that an organisation has a fast and efficient IT DR plan, it can help the businesses to make bolder and better profit-boosting decisions.
Enhance Business continuity
Cloud-based services are hosted in data centers away from an organisation's business and safe from harm. The reason is that a typical cloud provider has a requirement for the data centre to be a distant away from the main premises. Moreover, this entire data center operation is backed up by an active-active data center for fail over capability. Majority of the customers are still able to reach the business for important disaster information, if necessary, or to continue their day-to-day business. With mobility, the organisation's employees can continue communicating with the customers and employees without skipping a beat.
Why Organisation Deploy Cloud-based Disaster Recovery?
In summary, the choice to deploy cloud-based IT Disaster Recovery are:
[1] is more scalable
- organisation can easily increase the amount of resources that you back up in the cloud by purchasing more cloud infrastructure capacity.
[2] makes it possible to leverage geographic redundancy
- organisation can spread its backed-up resources across multiple geographic regions in order to maximize their availability due to regional disasters
[3] is fast
- Most cloud infrastructure offers high bandwidth and fast disk I/O or input/output operations
[4] allows organisation the flexibility to pay as the demand grows
- organisation can pay for cloud IT DR infrastructure as it is being utilized. There is no need to invest upfront in hardware or to pay for more infrastructure than the organisation actually use at a given time.
