An Overview of Cloud Based Disaster Recovery

Posted by alvina on July 21st, 2018

While the concept of disaster recovery is nothing new, disaster recovery cloud solutions are. They are proving to be cost effective for many small businesses that can’t afford proper disaster recovery backup.

The main challenge with this type of DR plan is planning for the available cloud capacity. This involves businesses having a clear understanding of bandwidth requirements, which is not how disaster recovery works when standard methods are used. It is important that businesses using this type of recovery understand how to reach their data in the event of a security breach.

Considerations that must be thought of include the ways in which a particular cloud provider serves its users, as well as how available and reliable it is. It is extremely important that any business using this type of disaster recovery can successfully choose the cloud server that will fit their needs the best.

One reason this type of disaster recovery is becoming the preferred choice for many businesses is that the experience can be completely customized. They can come up with a blueprint that reflects their company’s needs perfectly. However, it must be done correctly in order to be at its most effective. The process involves identifying all of the recovery methods and resources at a business’s disposal. Any data or applications that are critical to running a business successfully must always be included. At the same time, businesses have to have a clear understanding of not only the data and applications they do need but the data and applications they don’t need as well.

When it comes to choosing a disaster recovery cloud plan, businesses have several options. These included managed disaster recovery and applications, as well as backup/restore points in the cloud and replications. A managed service provider can monitor instances of both disaster recovery and production of a business’s data. Any businesses using this type of managed service will enter into service level agreements to have their data protected. Businesses should be sure that this is the right decision for them, as it involves trusting their applications to be accessed by the service provider in a safe and secure way.

With cloud based data recovery there is no need for a business’s data to be stored at a physical location away from them. This is a straightforward way to protect a business’s data and can be easier for some businesses to manage than traditional disaster recovery would be.

However, actually recovering data from the crowd can become much more complicated as a process. Limited bandwidth may mean that businesses can’t keep all of the necessary data safe. In this case, they have the option of having additional data backed up on a disc that their managed service provider can send them. Recent data backups can also be cached on a business’s computers, making data restoration easier.

Businesses now have more disaster recovery options at their fingertips than they ever had before thanks to the addition of cloud based backups.