In today’s environment, even a minute of downtime can cripple a business. From lost customers to regulatory fines to damaged brand value, interrupted service and data breaches can have broad, negative impacts on a business—and if critical applications, processes, and systems are not highly available and resilient, the failure is perceived as on the IT department. 

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Modern IT leaders who successfully tackle this challenge are moving away from the status quo and rebuilding their disaster recovery strategy to take advantage of new technology. A disaster recovery plan can take many forms, and developing the right plan for unique business needs requires starting at the beginning. 

In this eBook, IT leaders will learn how to effectively: 

• Conduct a business impact assessment
• Define recovery time and recovery point objectives
• Select the right technology to support the DR plan
• Build out a DR infrastructure
• Test and evolve the DR plan over time

This eBook provides a step-by-step guide to help IT leaders identify their organizations’ unique business needs and then develop the right disaster recovery plan to match those needs. 

Organizations were recently presented with the unexpected challenge of converting to a fully remote workforce. Many organizations may have assumed that their existing “work-from-home” plan that was in place for normal business operations would suffice in the event of a disaster. The reality is, there are only a handful of companies out there that ever tested their infrastructure’s ability to handle sending their entire workforce home to work for an extended period of time.

The fundamental premise behind the very existence of an IT department is the expectation that systems will be kept operational and that business-critical applications will always be available. IT leaders invest an immense amount of time and capital into ensuring systems are as robust as possible, data is protected, and performance is monitored.

Planning for the unforeseeable

However, as the pace of business and change accelerates, staying ahead of the curve is increasingly difficult. This is especially true when trying to plan for disasters, which are, almost by definition, unforeseeable. Disasters can come in many forms— from a site-wide outage due to a natural event to data corruption caused by human error to malicious attacks requiring extraordinary measures to overcome and recover to a safe point—and the number and types of events that can cause disruption are on the rise.

Get prepared with your paper, where you’ll:

• Explore the rising complexity and impact of cyberattacks
• Discover why simple backup strategies fall short
• Learn about the high cost of upfront capital investment versus the operational expense advantage of DRaaS

Get strategies for effective implementation and uncover the key steps in deploying a DRaaS solution—download the white paper to take the first step towards business continuity.