This is the part of your disaster recovery plan where you establish how your organization will operate and where your IT will be serviced from:
- Will employees work from a new business location or will they telework?
- Will IT operate out of an alternate data center or will we utilize a cloud service?
During this stage, you need to ensure that you have covered all requirements, which include:
- Storage requirements:
- Do you have enough storage to bring up new services?
- Network connectivity:
- Can your users access the disaster recovery IT site?
- Does the new site have the appropriate bandwidth?
- Using the example of an e-commerce site, how will the rest of the world access the alternate site?
- Licensing:
- How will the alternate processing facility's software be licensed?
- Do you pay for the use of the site and its technology while it is not being used?
- In traditional data centers, you typically would pay for unused resources
- A cloud-based disaster recovery implementation may provide the ability to establish a plan without paying for resources until they are used