Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery for desktops focuses on implementing emergency cloud-hosted desktops and applications to end users in the cloud without requiring additional data center departments or virtual desktop infrastructure. End-users can obtain their cloud-hosted virtual desktop from any device, anywhere, ensuring that in the event of the disaster they can stay productive. With virtualization, the whole server, including the operating system, applications, patches, and the information is encapsulated into an individual software package or virtual server. This complete virtual server can be replicated or supported to an offsite data center and spun up on a virtual host in a matter of minutes. Since the virtual server is hardware independent, the operating system, applications, patches, and data can be reliably and precisely transported from one data center to a secondary data center without the inconvenience of reloading each element of the server. This can dramatically decrease recovery times in relations to traditional (non-virtualized) disaster recovery approaches where servers need to be loaded with the OS and application software and patched to the last configuration utilized in production.
Cloud disaster recovery has many merits including various methods that can be purchased in-house, partly in-house, or as a service. This flexibility allows a small company to implement a robust disaster recovery plan that was impossible. Normally cloud providers charge for storage by Pay-Per-Use model based on capacity, bandwidth, or sheet. Since the provider is responsible for purchasing and maintaining the storage infrastructure, you do not have to spend additional hardware, network resources, data center space, and the people you need to support them.
