Modern Disaster Recovery Explained: From Edge to AI Automation

There’s a common saying among data center professionals that no matter how much it costs to have a disaster recovery solutions program, the cost of not having one is far greater.

This was often used to convince skeptical CEOs of the need to build duplicate data center infrastructure despite its high cost and low utility. Today, however, the economics of disaster recovery have shifted dramatically. With the rise of edge computing, containerization, and AI-driven automation, the cost side of disaster recovery has dropped precipitously as modern hosted solutions allow enterprises to avoid much or all of the up-front expenses while still providing reliability and availability levels equal to, or even better than, in-house facilities.

Disaster Recovery Solutions on Cloud (DRC)

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud (DRC) represents a shift from traditional, CapEx-intensive disaster recovery infrastructure to a more agile, OpEx-based model where virtualized environments are provisioned in the cloud ...