5 Tips for Successful Disaster Recovery in the Multi-Cloud
Meet Kevin.
Kevin has been using the cloud for his business needs for many years but after his business partner, Kim, encountered so many problems with her disaster recovery efforts in the multi-cloud, he decides to conduct some research to avoid the same mistakes she made.
Upon extensive research, Kevin discovers five tips he should follow to ensure that his disaster recovery efforts in multi-cloud are successful. Kevin understands that it’s essential that he has a disaster recovery plan in place that he can count on and to ensure that his plan is the best, he must follow these five tips:
Tip 1) Kevin must focus on his applications and service level objectives. Since all business applications are not equal and different applications have different service level objectives, it’s important that Kevin plans his disaster recovery approach based on his Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and his Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
Tip 2) Kevin needs to automate his disaster recovery operations. To ensure speedy recovery times to his multi-cloud and avoid downtime caused by human error, it’s essential that Kevin automate his disaster recovery operations. With his recovery operations fully automated, Kevin will avoid extended downtime caused by a manual recovery operations approach.
Tip 3) It is essential that Kevin test and re-test to not only ensure that his plan offers predictable recovery but also because it’s a key compliance requirement for many organizations. By making regular disaster recovery testing a habit, Kevin will ensure that his recovery plan will be successful when he needs it most.
Tip 4) The fourth tip Kevin discovers that will help him create a successful disaster recovery plan is that he needs to solve for flexible recovery scenarios. Kevin needs to implement a recovery strategy that is flexible and customizable. This is important because Kevin’s disaster recovery plan should be able to be tailored to any situation from a single virtual machine or applications to an entire site-level recovery plan.
Tip 5) The final tip Kevin discovers is that he should implement a unified disaster recovery strategy across his multi-cloud. Since Kevin uses different clouds for different business applications, it’s more efficient for him to deploy a disaster recovery strategy that works across all clouds that he uses. This will greatly increase operational efficiency and reduce ongoing operating costs.
Now that Kevin has a better understanding of what a successful disaster recovery plan in the multi-cloud looks like, he’s ready to implement these five tips to ensure that his recovery strategy is successful and meets the needs of his company.
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