Sunday, August 7, 2016

How to Setup Disaster Recovery as A Service (DRaaS) for your Organization

Disaster recovery (DR) planning has a reputation for being difficult and time consuming. Setting up alternate processing sites, procuring hardware, establishing data replication, and failover testing have been incredibly expensive undertakings. To top it all off, the need for 24x7x365 business application availability threatens to make disaster recovery planning an exercise in futility.
Disaster Recovery as a Service, will help you to setup your DR site with below listed benefits
1.       low cost with – Pay as you go
2.       High availability -
3.       Simplicity and Easy Setup
4.       Scalability
5.       Flexibility
6.       Compliance
7.       Easier Testing

Step to Setup your DRaaS
·         Understanding your Disaster Recovery Requirement and Needs
o   Understand today DR Practices – Hot, Cold and Warm Sites  
o   Public / Private
·         Defining Your Requirements for a DRaaS Solution
o   Perform a Business, Impact Assessment
o   Setting Recovery Targets (RTO and RPO)
o   Backup and Replication with bandwidth limit
o   Understanding how DRaaS untangles network complexities (Latency and Bandwidth)
o   Working through the legal and compliance issues associated with DRaaS
o   Data Protection and Geography and the Law
o   Data Ownership, access and Use
o   Data Custodian,
o   Data Retention,
o   Data Location,
o   Bootstrapping Recovery Site,
·         Defining your correct Backup Technology
o   3-2-1 Rule
·         Implementing DRaaS
o   Build a successful DR Plan with Clear Scope
·         DRaaS Operations and Maintain with Testing    
o   Operational aspects of a DRaaS system, including network monitoring, conducting failovers and failbacks, and testing a DR plan.
o   Cutover test, Paralle test, Simulation, and Document
·         Building an Exit Strategy
o   Monitor and analyze, Periodic business reviews


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