With the Cloud, No More Excuses for Not Having a Disaster Recovery Plan - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

The public cloud makes setting up a disaster recovery plan dramatically cheaper than building your own redundant backup. But just because the cloud is available as a low-cost recovery option doesn’t mean everyone is doing it – or doing it right. We’ll discuss when it makes sense to turn to the cloud for disaster recovery and what are best practices for setting up a disaster recovery plan in the cloud.

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Do you actually need disaster recovery? After all, haven’t you already built your apps to be resilient? We’ll show exactly why you need a disaster recovery plan and why the cloud makes sense.

Once you decide to use the cloud for disaster recovery, you have options. If your primary systems fail, do you want backup to kick in within minutes? Or can you accept hours? The answers to those questions will determine how you set up your cloud disaster recovery program.

Using the cloud for disaster recovery is most definitely cheaper than building a fully redundant data center. But the setup you choose – and how you decide to handle data synchronization – will have an impact on cost.

What if your cloud provider gets hit by the same disaster? We’ll look at why geography is important to your plan.