Establishing a Business Continuity Plan

It may sound obvious, but every measure you take to protect your workload against a disaster should be carefully considered and planned accordingly. First, these measures will have a significant impact on your solution design. Second, the cost of your solution will increase with the degree of protection against a disaster. So, you want to keep both aspects under control.

Eventually, you will create a DR plan for your workload. That document will become part of your organization’s business continuity plan to make sure the organization can keep operating its business in case of a disaster.

Now, as always, you want to start with your requirements before creating that DR plan. What are your actual business needs in terms of DR protection? The last thing you want is to spend a huge effort and a lot of money on something that will not be useful.

So, when building that DR plan, ensure that every protection you put in place serves a purpose...