1. Cloud Emerges As
Smart Choice For
Business Continuity
Survey Reveals IT Moving
Toward Cloud-Based
Disaster Recovery
A new VMware Research study from IDG reveals that for many organizations, their current
business continuity strategies lag behind the new, cloud-based options. As enterprises
become increasingly comfortable with the cloud and the “as-a-service” model as a way to
deploy disaster recovery, getting on the path to disaster recovery as-a-service is
now within reach.
‘Good Enough’ not Good Enough
plan to reassess
or expand it
62%
For those with a DR strategy:
plan to invest or improve
their DR solution
43%
Evaluating and investing in cloud-based DR solutions
is one of the top three IT priorities for 2015:
This is driven by:
Desire to take
advantage of new
capabilities
Dissatisfaction with their
current solution due to
cost, complexity, inability
to scale or combination
40%
Nearly
who rated their organizations' ability to
recover their data center as fair or poor,
also indicated that they do not have a
DR plan in place
For those without a DR
plan in place, the top
strategy they plan to
deploy is DRaaS
DRaaS Definitions:
Disaster Recovery as a Service for
Infrastructure is the replication of
on premises virtual machines to the
cloud in the event of a disaster or
disruption.
Disaster Recovery
as a Service for
Desktops provides
emergency
cloud-hosted virtual
desktops.
Creating a Cloud-Based
Disaster Recovery Strategy
What survey respondents want in a DRaaS solution:
Reliability Security Compatibility
with existing
infrastructure
Important Factors in the Cloud-based
DR Solution Decision
Ease of
Deployment,
Management
Reduce
overall cost
of a DR solution
Expand DR
Beyond primary
data center/
headquarters
have already deployed
cloud-based DR for IT
infrastructure
About 25%
plan to deploy
cloud-based DR within
the next two years
36%
2yr
Cloud-based Desktop DR — Plans and Needs
plan to deploy desktop DR within the next 24 months
31%
say cost is critical or very important
75%
say ease of use and implementation
74%
say SLAs are critical or very important
70%
65% Would Consider Using the Same Vendor
for Infrastructure and Desktop DR
single point of contact
for support
55%
service
integration
53%
protect infrastructure
and desktops in the same
centralized location
53%
The DR Cloud Advantages
Easier to ensure
the reliability of
growing data, at
lower costs
Reliability,
security and
cost advantages
with cloud
Ease of use and
implementation
Jump-Start Your Move to
Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery
To learn more, download the white paper at
www.vmware.com/go/drsurveypaper
VMware vCloud® Air™ Disaster Recovery and VMware Horizon Air
Desktop DR help you fulfill the need to implement or supplement your
organization's continuity plans while addressing budget, time, and
resource constraints.