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Tags: DraaSCloud ServicesDisaster Recovery
Author: Sarah Doherty
Date: September 28, 2021

Is Disaster Recovery a good business investment?

As of January 2022, iland is now 11:11 Systems, a managed infrastructure solutions provider at the forefront of cloud, connectivity, and security. For the most up-to-date product information and resources, or if you have further questions, please refer to the 11:11 Systems Success Center or contact us directly.

Investing in Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions early will enable business continuity, avoid a lot of unnecessary stress, and save any organization from potentially devastating recovery costs.

What is Disaster Recovery?
One definition is that disaster recovery is an area of security planning that will protect an organization from the effects of significant negative events. DR allows an organization to maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions following any type of disaster.

This means that implementing DR requires a different approach for every organization, as each organization has its own mission-critical functions. Typically, some mission-critical functions run on or rely on IT infrastructure. Therefore, it is good to look at DR within the context of this infrastructure; however, it should be part of business continuity planning as a whole.

Important questions to ask when planning and designing a mission-critical hosting infrastructure:

  • How much time can any mission-critical functions be unavailable (RTO)?
  • How much data can be lost? (I.e. the time duration for which data is not recoverable (RPO)). For example, if data is safely backed once a day then data will be lost up to one day when a disaster happens.
  • How much money will it cost the organization (per hour) when the mission-critical services are not available? DR measures include prevention, detection and correction.

Disaster Recovery for Common Failures
Most hosting services include disaster recovery for most common failures such as failure of a physical disk, server, network switch, network uplink connection, or power feed. This is referred to as High Availability (HA).

A redundant setup solves failures as if an element fails, another infrastructure piece takes over. Redundant networking devices and cabling, multiple power feeds, seamless failover to battery power, and separate power generators that can run forever play an important role in keeping IT infrastructure and thus your software services up and running. Also in case of a fire in a data center, the fire is typically detected early and extinguished through gas (reduction of oxygen), without even affecting most equipment in the same data center hall. This means that most ‘disasters’ are being recovered without impacting the availability of infrastructure services.

One of the most commonly used tools in DR is creating a frequent backup of your data. If a disaster occurs, you can then restore your backup and relaunch your mission-critical functions and other services.

For a faster relaunch of your services after a disaster, replication of your application servers and data can come in handy, as it is readily available to relaunch, compared to backups that would first need to be restored (which takes more time).

Preparing for Critical Disasters
To mitigate risks of larger disasters (that are generally much less likely to happen), an alternative IT infrastructure environment to run your mission-critical functions can help to enable your business continuity. Many organizations are looking to the cloud for these solutions.

Some choose to backup critical data to another location or to the cloud. Others replicate application servers and data to another location, with available hosting infrastructure, to be able to relaunch application services quickly or to have a seamless failover without service interruption. The cloud services option can save budget rather than spending on infrastructure.

In case you need to mitigate the risk of failure of the entire environment, the common solution is to include a failover data center site in the IT infrastructure setup plan. Disaster recovery by means of adding an alternative data center (also called Twin DC setup) also requires a tailored approach to identify the right setup for your applications and mission-critical functions. This option also includes the need for an increased budget.

This means finding a balance between investing in more reliable hosting infrastructure, applications that deal with failures in the underlying infrastructure, and planning and preparing failover to an alternative infrastructure environment.

The Main Takeaways
As every business is different, each organization should have its own approach to disaster recovery and business continuity planning. The challenge for any organization is to balance the tools and methods that are available. The goal, however, should be vey clear for everyone: invest upfront to prevent higher recovery costs in case of a disaster.

11:11 Disaster Recovery as a Service was built to ensure the long term viability of your business and protect against unplanned downtime, while reducing your DR costs by up to 70%. For more information visit: 11:11 Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

More great information is available in our white paper: 11:11 Systems: How to Sell DR.

Category: DRaaSBy Sarah DohertySeptember 28, 2021
Tags: DraaSCloud ServicesDisaster Recovery

Author: Sarah Doherty

Sarah Doherty worked on the 11:11 Systems product marketing team.

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