Whitepaper: Case for Cloud DR

Cloud outages are becoming an increasingly more frequent event. A multi-cloud recovery strategy increases the options for resuming business operations and mitigates any negative impacts.

DIVERSIFY YOUR RECOVERY OPTIONS

Cloud computing promises to simplify IT and eliminate the complexity, cost and management of on-premise facilities and or data centers. While the burden of maintaining an infrastructure has shifted to cloud providers, the obligation of protecting data and ensuring recoverability has become a shared responsibility between the end user and the cloud provider. Third party options to compliment cloud providers are scrambling to catch up. They create more complexity, introduce security risks and fail to meet classic 3-2-1 data protection strategies. Consequently, companies have allowed their DR plans to become outdated. Deploying a multi-cloud strategy for recovery does not have to be complex or expensive.

WHY YOU NEED IT

Data protection and business continuity tools provided by cloud vendors are not sufficient. Cloud providers continue to demonstrate that they are susceptible to outages related to human error, attacks by bad actors, and other internet related events outside of their control. Unlike on-premise infrastructures, when a cloud provider has an outage, there is no real-time visibility into the root-cause. In addition, there is limited information on when services will be restored or a timeframe for the resolution. At the beginning of 2022, Bank of America reported that 23% of CIO’s from 185 of the largest companies around the world are allocating most of their cloud budgets for spending outside of their primary vendor. The outages of 2021 exposed the risks of a single cloud strategy and competition scrambled to develop technology, business models and alliances to capitalize on the opportunity.