• 29 Jan, 2025
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Disaster Recovery – Luxury or Necessity?

The Issue:

In the new digital age we live in, the issue of business continuity and disaster recovery planning (Business Continuity) is a concern for everyone.

Starting from the assumption that an organization is organized with a disaster recovery plan in place, the danger of a potential disaster in the business operation is a critical aspect. The most important factors that should be considered are:

• Physical catastrophes
• Digital threats (e.g. ransomware attack) and organized attacks (from hackers)
• Equipment failures (HW/SW)
• Human mistakes that can lead to a critical error in the operation

With the right precautions, the likelihood of incidents can be reduced, making it possible to maintain a proper physical structure, cybersecurity, or another “infrastructure-symbiosis” for a period of 6 years. Each organization’s disaster plan, when organized by all stakeholders, aims to deliver a significant economic (and not only) benefit.

The analysis:

We understand what the analysis is for an organization and its business continuity, the “adaptation” of its operational environment will ensure the synchronization of systems (Servers, Applications, Settings, Network) and data storage, in order to achieve the business goal, whether it is to be able to secure the operation of the primary site or to function in a new virtual base in the new location (DR Site).

The solution:

With the term Disaster Recovery we refer to the use of technologies that ensure the continuity of the company’s operations with an organized and structured disaster recovery plan.

To establish a business organization to operate as a solid Disaster Recovery, it is necessary to understand the needs of the company and possible problems with the existing structure, such as scheduling, and a simple long-term recovery plan.

• Recovery Plan: Describes the steps and the process of disaster recovery, explaining what must be done to recover the operations with the least disturbance and damage possible.
• Recovery Plan testing: It is important to carry out chronic testing of the recovery plan to ensure that the DR objectives are being met, that the systems are properly tested.

The most significant factors in the recovery plan are:

• RPO (Recovery Point Objective) Describes the maximum acceptable amount of data loss measured in time.
• RTO (Recovery Time Objective) Refers to the downtime and how long it should take to recover from a disaster before causing significant business impact.

The scheduling of a Disaster recovery plan and its proper execution will benefit the organization to operate within the RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and RPO (Recovery Point Objective) that it has set for its business continuity.

Efficient DR solution:

The field of efficient disaster recovery solution can be:

• From an on-premise infrastructure to another on-premise infrastructure (geographically in another location)
• From infrastructures that operate in the public cloud to another public cloud infrastructure
• In private clouds or Hybrid infrastructures

The DR plan

The market in the synchronized system for classic disaster recovery has been improved with other alternatives. The choice and availability of cloud-based DR solutions (known as disaster recovery as a service or DRaaS) has transformed the market and offers substantial competitive advantages in the adoption of traditional DR systems.

Particularly, the field of DR solutions is suitable for micro-medium businesses and startups. This is due to the cost and the economic scale of cloud solutions and investment in DR technologies.

The conclusion

It is important to see the DR plan as a technological evolution and analysis for the proper operation of critical business functions;

With the consistent use of all and integrated DRaaS solution, the archiving of the plan does not “tremble” the systematic composition of business functions and a plan of analysis is created.