Innovative technologies that elevate disaster recovery planning efforts

Learn how innovative tech like cloud computing and hybrid cloud management is making waves in the BCP and DR landscape.

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Innovative technologies that elevate disaster recovery planning efforts

Learn how innovative tech like cloud computing and hybrid cloud management is making waves in the BCP and DR landscape.

Get in touch with us for more

Businesses are facing a range of challenges from natural disasters and in this landscape, the ability to swiftly address them is vital. So much so that over recent years, it has turned from an advantage into an absolute necessity.

Business continuance planning is a strategic framework that allows businesses to do exactly this. As the business landscape changes, BCP strategies—and by extension, disaster recovery planning strategies—have changed as well to account for these changes.

One of the main ways in which this has happened is through technological innovations. Let’s explore some of the most innovative technologies in recent years that have elevated DR efforts.

Innovative technologies in disaster recovery planning

Here are a few innovative technologies that have changed the way disaster recovery planning has been done in recent years.

Cloud computing

Provides scalable and flexible resources, enabling businesses to maintain operations even when local hardware fails.

Hybrid/multi-cloud management

Offers the flexibility to choose multiple cloud services from different providers to avoid vendor lock-in and more.

Low-code development platforms

Enables fast development and deployment, eases usage, provides cost savings, and improves scalability and integration.

Renewable energy

Reduces dependency on power grids and ensures a sustainable and uninterrupted power supply for continued operations.

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FAQs

What are the 5 steps of disaster recovery planning?

  • Identify key assets, threats, and scenarios.
  • Define recovery solutions.
  • Draft a disaster recovery plan.
  • Determine a recovery location.
  • Refine, test, and re-test the plan

What are the 4 phases of disaster recovery?

  • Mitigation
    Preventing future emergencies or minimizing their effects.
  • Preparedness
    Planning how to respond.
  • Response
    Taking action to effectively contain and control the incident.
  • Recovery
    Restoring normal operations

What are the three types of disaster recovery plans?

  • Data center disaster recovery
    Focuses on restoring data center services and operations.
  • Data backup disaster recovery
    Involves creating and storing backups of data to restore operations.
  • Virtualized disaster recovery
    Utilizes virtualization technology to quickly resume operations after a disaster
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