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Build a !!!cloud-based!!! disaster recovery plan. sections to include but not limit to: 1. specific architecture 2.
recommended platforms 3. compare and contrast (cost estimates, time estimates)
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Your company currently operates 2 data centers (primary and secondary) and has automatic failover
capabilities with reserved capacity such that a data center outage causes little to no downtime for your
critical business applications.
While your disaster recovery (DR) capabilities are excellent, both of your data centers are in the same
coastal city, making your services vulnerable to a major regional disaster such as a hurricane or
earthquake. For this reason, you protect your company’s critical data by writing backups to tape and
shipping the tapes to a vault in another city some 300+ miles away.
While you could recover your data and systems from tape backup after a regional disaster, your recovery
time objective (RTO) is 6+ weeks, meaning that it would be 6 or more weeks before your services would be
back online after a major regional disaster.
Your CIO has charged you and your team with enhancing your company’s extra-regional DR capabilities
by:
– Establishing a virtual or physical DR data center in another region.
– Establishing data replication and/or backups to your new DR data center.
– Providing updated recovery procedures that will reduce your RTO to 1 week or less.