The Middle East has digitised fast. In energy, construction, finance and government, the amount of data grows rapidly every year. The facilities housing that data face summer heat, sandstorms and flash flooding, and not all of them were specified with those conditions in mind. Put those two pressures together and the recovery plan carries even more weight. The more a business depends on its data, and the more its facilities have to withstand, the more that plan has to hold.
In an interview with CXO Insight ME, Ajith Surendran, Regional Business Manager META at Tiger Technology, argues that the exposure in most organizations is simpler than it looks: production data and its backup sit in the same office, on the same network, where one incident reaches both.
In the interview he works through what to decide before choosing an architecture, the three hybrid cloud standby options and what each trades away, and the role of versioning and immutability in protecting the recovery copy itself. He closes with four questions he puts to boards, including the one most organizations cannot answer confidently: when they last tested a recovery.
"Two copies in the same building effectively count as one."
Ajith Surendran, Regional Business Manager META, Tiger Technology
Read the full interview on CXO Insight ME: What every Middle East CXO should ask about disaster recovery
Related reading
Core Strategies for Data Resilience: A Practical Guide - how to set the recovery targets the architecture should follow from.
Hybrid Cloud Disaster Recovery: Choosing the Right Infrastructure Model - the three standby approaches in depth, and what each costs to maintain.