Migrations Are About More Than Outages

DRaaS has brought a new era of protection and recovery solutions, but previously DR was seen as an insurance policy against potential disaster, like large-scale outages and massive losses of data. And while businesses still want and need those capabilities, there are also day-to-day business needs that can be met by having the ability to seamlessly migrate data from one environment to another.

For example, companies need complete control over the movement of their data when making the decision to change cloud vendors. They can’t be beholden to the vendor they’re leaving when it’s time to make a switch.

Or, let’s go back to employee satisfaction requirements. Employees want email, CRM and other key systems to be available when they need them. They need that mission-critical application to open when they ask it to. They need those spreadsheets that they’ve saved to the company server to be retrievable when they need them. 

Repeated or prolonged internal IT issues can have a similar effect on company reputation with employees that a widespread outage can have with the public. That means companies need to be able to protect, recover, test and migrate systems easily to provide resiliency for their employees to do business.

It's All About The People

In the end, cross-cloud protection, recovery and migration is about flexibility and control. It’s about having control of your data and systems, no matter where it lives. And it’s about having the flexibility to decide when it’s time to move, whether you need to move it because of an outage or for other reasons. It’s flexibility that will let you control one more thing: your reputation.

Lee Exall is managing partner of Capital Continuity.