How To Select Backups and Disaster Recovery Services for Enterprises?

By CIOReview | Thursday, November 21, 2019

Organizations ought to choose the backup services considering the following keys of selection.

Fremont, CA: Enterprises fall victim to ransomware and natural disasters. It is not the same all the time, and the enterprises should anticipate the worst-case scenario too. Many technical challenges can be addressed by utilizing a proper backup strategy. Affordability varies with the size of enterprises, and it is the backup strategy that gets scrutinized as a way to cut costs. Adequate planning and budget are mandatory as saving server backups can consume large amounts of storage. So, companies should make backup decisions with application owners and should not make decisions based on assumptions.

Organizations should be aware of the backup options available before putting themselves into risk. Enterprises can deploy one of the three backup and disaster recovery services available, such as on-premises, in the cloud, and by using a hybrid solution. On-premises introduces speed but is costly and doesn’t facilitate redundancy. On the other hand, the cloud is comparatively less expensive but compromises on speed and makes it challenging to reduce downtime for the enterprise efficiently. And finally, hybrid solutions combine the perks of on-premises and cloud solutions, making them the best for the enterprise. Depending on the needs of the organization, they can choose the services.

An organization’s success relies on the backup strategy used. Putting the right amount of time and money into a backup solution will ensure that an organization will be quickly recovered in risky situations. During critical incidents, servers should be restored within minutes. Organizations should implement a backup solution that offers the ability to do mass quantities of server recoveries. This will significantly improve the recovery time of the servers during such situations.

However, backup and disaster recovery are not the same. Backup employs technology and techniques that focus on the recoverability of backed up data. Disaster recovery services prioritize the reduction of downtime/outage by emphasizing on mission-critical data recovery. Often, testing the recovery process will ensure that organizations meet the backup RPOs (recovery point objective) and RTOs (recovery time objective).