target audience: TECH BUYER Publication date: Jun 2023 - Document type: Tech Buyer Presentation - Doc Document number: # US50790323
Cloud Hosting Disaster Recovery Planning
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This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation lays out the considerations for cloud disaster recovery (DR) planning, provides process fundamentals, identifies the key stakeholders (including a RACI matrix), explains how to build DR cloud hosting, discusses strategic DR choices, explores getting started with DRaaS, and more.
A decentralized, cloud-based technology architecture generally increases IT complexity and further escalates the importance of having an effective and capable DR capability in place. With the myriad of pressures confronting IT leadership, cloud DR planning is de-emphasized. Indeed, the issue of cloud DR planning is a complex one, with a variety of decisions to be made and tasks to be handled, from identifying the applications, services, and processes that are most critical to the organization; determining acceptable downtime for each high-priority workload and asset; developing testing runbooks; automating testing processes; developing an incident response framework; determining KPIs and metrics to be used; and justifying the expense to senior executives.
"The end goal of cloud DR planning is to protect your organization from major system outages that could cost your company money and harm the credibility of your IT department," says Daniel Saroff, group VP for Consulting and Research at IDC. "To do that, an organization should work toward conducting 'surprise' testing on an ad hoc basis, holding postmortem meetings and planning for upcoming tests, ensuring that all workloads fail over within specified SLAs, and engaging a qualified third party to audit the DR test plan and report results to the senior management."