Data Management Glossary
Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery (DR) refers to security planning to protect an organization from the effects of a disaster – such as a cyber attack or equipment failure. A properly constructed disaster recovery plan will allow an organization to maintain or quickly resume mission critical functions following a disaster.
The disaster recovery plan includes policies and testing, and may involve a separate physical site for restoring operations. This preparation needs to be taken very seriously, and will involve a significant investment of time and money to ensure minimal losses in the event of a disaster.
Control measures are steps that can reduce or eliminate various threats for organizations. Different types of measures can be included in disaster recovery plan. There are three types of disaster recovery control measures that should be considered:
- Preventive measures – Intended to prevent a disaster from occurring
- Detective measures – Intended to detect unwanted events
- Corrective measures – The plan to restore systems after a disaster has occurred.
A quality disaster recovery plan requires these policies be documented and tested regularly. In some cases, organizations outsource disaster recovery to an outsourced provider instead of using their own remote facility, which can save time and money. This solution has become increasingly more popular with the rise in cloud computing.
According to the 2023 Komprise State of Unstructured Data Management report, more than 50% of enterprise IT organizations are managing at least 5 PB of data today and 73% are spending more than 30% of their IT budget on data storage, backups and disaster recovery. Read the eBook: 8 Ways to Save on File Data Storage.
Enterprise data protection schemes for most businesses continue to follow traditional lines based on backups and well-established disaster recovery (DR) strategies, such as having remote sites to replicate data to on a scheduled basis. This is no longer enough. Today, the higher frequency and likelihood of disasters, the greater impact they have on our digital society, and the uncontrolled rate of data have created the perfect storm.
Read this FastCompany article by Komprise COO Krishna Subramanian, which goes into new tactics such as installing data deletion and replication policies and replicating low-priority data to cloud object storage for a more affordable DR strategy.
Read the case study:
Leading Idaho Health System Selects Komprise to Right-Place Data and Bolster Disaster Recovery
