Guidelines for Selecting Recovery Strategies

From an IT infrastructure stand-point, the challenge in selecting disaster recovery solutions is that there are a large variety of valid disaster recovery products available in the marketplace. The common problem is that there is a tendency to view the disaster recovery solutions as individual product technologies and piece together the total solution. Instead, a disaster recovery solution needs to be viewed as a complete, integrated, potentially multi-product solution.

By defining and selecting the appropriate recovery strategies in advance, you will reduce the complexity of the disaster recovery procedures and build in the efficiencies for a quicker implementation of the DR plan. With so many different recovery strategies available to support your plan, how do you select the appropriate one? Do you go bleeding edge, or make the entire data center redundant, or react as the situation presents itself? Spend nothing (because, after all, our team will have everything documented), or invest millions?