Security News > 2021 > December > Rewriting your disaster recovery plan might just save your company…and could transform it
Disaster recovery used to be thought of as a form of corporate hygiene, but it's becoming increasingly clear it has to be considered a matter of corporate survival.
"VMware Site Recovery has been around a little while but has been adopted to be cloud compatible, so replicating your primary data center to a secondary data center that might be in the cloud, something like VMware Cloud on AWS, for example," says Hine.
"What VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery gives you is the ability to replicate your critical workloads and data almost in a pre-staging way, in VMware Cloud Storage. It's more of an on demand offering. So at the moment that the disaster occurs, the second infrastructure is spun up."
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery also offers new ways to look at disaster recovery, he explains, with the prospect of instant recovery.
"That's one of the advantages of a VMware Cloud solution - your ability to move backwards and forwards between recovery points is much more flexible. And then once you've chosen your recovery point, you can either execute from storage, so that the virtual machine can either run instantly from the backup storage, or you can restore it to full production."
As Hine explains, the high value or most critical workloads might be classed as the "Gold tier" in the disaster recovery plan and merit the kind of instant recovery services offered by VCDR. Other elements might be considered less critical, for example test dev, he says.