- Find an online article regarding Disaster Recovery OR Business Continuity.
- Summarize the article.
A disaster recovery plan is part of the business continuity plan that describes how business operations will recover quickly in the event of a disaster (Techopedia, n.d.), but focuses on the IT functions. The plan is developed to assist the IT department to get up and back running critical systems in order to support operations at a minimal resource level. Disaster recovery plans are critical to business sustaining after an unforeseen tragedy to its IT infrastructure, especially to the amount of reliance businesses place on their information systems. Sandra Gittlen writes on AutoNation hybrid approach to their disaster recovery plan.
AutoNation operates over 300 locations and had experienced failed attempts trying to implement an on-premises only solution and a cloud-only recovery solution however both were too expensive to sustain as a long term plan. So AutoNation settled for a DRaaS, Disaster Recovery as a Service, approach that backs up and replicates virtual servers, applications, and data to their Colorado location which operates as the colocation facility and responsible for replacing the sites AWS information during recovery. “The new disaster-recovery plan that features a blend of colocation-based and as-a-service-based disaster recovery, with 75 percent of applications targeted to recover from a Denver colocation facility and 25 percent from Amazon Web Services” (Glitten, 2019), creating a hybrid recovery plan.
DRaaS has grown in providers since cloud services have taken off. DRaaS has the ability to focus on backup virtual servers, physical servers, or on-site backup appliances. Many organizations are transferring the whole responsibility to the growing third party industry to provide fail-over services in the event of a service disruption or disaster. “Market research firm Technavio predicts the global DRaaS market will expand at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 36 percent between 2018 and 2022” (Gittlen, 2019). DRaaS provides the comfort of quick recovery at the flip of a switch.
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