The Path to Streamlining and Automating Data Center Operations
Cloud Emerges as Smart Choice for Business Continuity
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.