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.