One topic that has been coming up a lot recently, when comparing cloud based software systems, is the location of disaster recovery (DR) or secondary data centres.
Whilst the first step is helping the business to understand the need for a secondary hosting site, be it:
- a DR site activated in a major failure / disaster or
- secondary sites servicing active customers in parallel to the main site
the next step is ensuring the business isn’t then bamboozled with false promises from vendors.
Moving from a single point of failure architecture to one that can easily scale out and handle failure is no small task. Continue reading “Cloud Strategy – Locating your Disaster Recovery Site”