There's no reason to build - and in some cases, maintain - a secondary data center for DR.

1. THE TRADITIONAL
DATACENTER IS :
How to win with hybrid DR

2. In today’s market, there’s
no good reason for a company
to build a secondary data center
for disaster recovery (DR).

3. Clouds and colocation sites
enable DR strategies to adapt in
a changing IT industry…

4. …rather than holding them back with
physical infrastructure limits.

5. To ensure your DR plan is
performing to its fullest extent,
consider the following steps:

6. Diversify the carriers
with which you’re working.

7. Today,“hybrid cloud” means “multicloud.”
Working with multiple public cloud
providers helps prevent vendor lock-in
and can increase IT performance.

8. Telco carrier diversity is also critical
to data center success, and
should be a top priority as you
evaluate colocation options.

9. Use the connectivity benefits
of competing services.

10. When carriers compete for customers within
colocation sites, they’re more likely to offer
the latest,greatest services on the market.

11. Lay out your IT team’s top
priorities for the next year – and
then choose a hybrid DR approach
that can help meet all of them.

12. Set up your hybrid DR
strategy for success.

13. DR in the cloud isn’t perfect.
Networking issues, data migration and time
constraints can impede an organization’s
ability to withstand a disaster.

14. Cutting latency with edge computing and
using a hybrid data approach throughout
your organization prepares you to
overcome roadblocks and reap ROI.

15. Measure DR success
with RPO and RTO.

16. Hybrid cloud DR can bring down recovery
time objectives (RTO) and recovery point
objectives (RPO) – the time required
to fully recover from disaster.

17. Compared to traditional backup
methods, hybrid cloud DR gets businesses
up and running before serious
repercussions have time to set in.

18. Upgrade your
enterprise storage.

19. Core functions of IT, like storage
and DR, are now available as a service.
There’s no excuse for the rip-and-replace
data center infrastructure cycle.

20. Before you make changes to your
DR plan, evaluate your IT strategy
as a whole: from immediate needs
and resources to ideal goals.

21. Given the maintenance costs of a
secondary data center and the potential
for growth with hybrid DR, there’s
no good reason to build a data center again.

22. Instead, it’s time to embrace
clouds, cloud strategies
and the future of IT.

23. Join a webinar and
learn to accelerate hybrid DR.
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