Cloud Disaster Recovery: Looking Beyond Regional Deployments

Introduction

Enterprise Disaster Recovery strategy has shifted in terms of how to meet the demand and availability of an information technology (IT) infrastructure. As more and more companies are adopting cloud, chief information officers (CIOs) and IT leaders are looking at cloud regional deployment as a way of achieving their disaster recovery (DR) requirements and meeting their recovery service level agreements (SLAs).

When creating a DR strategy, careful consideration must be given to ensure business continuity. An IT organization must evaluate their recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) requirements and then ensure that the cloud architecture can match these requirements across all disaster types within the required recovery SLAs of the organization.