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