{"id":7485,"date":"2020-04-09T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2026-03-06T06:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:09:58","slug":"cloud-computing-a-solution-for-disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happiestminds.com\/blogs\/cloud-computing-a-solution-for-disaster-recovery-and-business-continuity\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: A solution for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we all know, the current situation of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0has made a massive impact on the Business of various industries and individuals. With the current pandemic situation globally, we as an\u00a0IT business\u00a0are responsible for taking appropriate measures to ensure everyone\u2019s safety and as well ensure the Business continues as usual.<\/p>\n

This results in limited employees available on-premises\/office locations to take care of daily Business as usual activities to maintain IT and business continuity such as\u00a0Datacenters,\u00a0Office Networking,\u00a0Active Directory services,\u00a0Hardware and Appliances\u00a0and more, which form key components of\u00a0IT infrastructure<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<\/strong>form backbone of business continuity.<\/p>\n

But as we all know, no\u00a0IT systems\u00a0are 100% available and disaster-free. Emergencies can happen, systems can go down due to various factors such as an increase in load, power failure, hardware failure, climatic extremities and more. During these scenarios, it is also not very feasible or easy to scale up traditional\u00a0IT infrastructure. But we as a business cannot take this as a reason to stop functioning and impact Business and customers. Hence business continuity and disaster (BC\/DR)\u00a0solutions\u00a0form a critical component to ensure Business continues in case of any disaster. These ensure operational resilience in the event of any interruptions or failures.<\/p>\n

To address the problem stated above, we would need to have a robust and cost-effective\u00a0BC\/DR strategy\u00a0in place, which brings us to the point on how cloud services can be used as an effective\u00a0BC\/DR strategy solution.<\/p>\n

Cloud service providers render more flexible service offerings which help us to minimize cost and maximize benefits.<\/p>\n

We can make use of a variety of services such as backup solutions,\u00a0traffic management,\u00a0infrastructure as a Code, gives the ability to ramp up the\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0quickly, in a\u00a0BC\/DR scenario\u00a0giving\u00a0end-user\u00a0full and seamless performance to\u00a0end-user.<\/p>\n

Customers can also use\u00a0cloud\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>offerings such as dedicated network connections, cloud-based directory, DNS services, storage services to have faster connectivity, resolution and Resilience which can help in reducing network delays, increased response times and data availability.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0Cloud Services,\u00a0we also have an additional benefit of\u00a0Pay-per-Use,\u00a0which helps us to minimize cost and expenditure on\u00a0DR infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Before considering\u00a0Cloud Services<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as a\u00a0BC\/DR solution,\u00a0any organization need to have an impact analysis to understand and establish key objectives such as:<\/p>\n