Cloud-based Disaster Recovery

1. Cloud Disaster Recovery or Cloud-based DR involves maintaining copies of organizational-wide data in a cloud storage environment. Related Term: Cloud Deployment Model, Cloud Service Model, Data Protection/Recovery Strategy, DRaaS, Recovery as a Service Notes (1): Do-It-Yourself. The organisation is expected to manage and configure their own solution using resources from the public cloud. Notes (2): DRaaS: The organisation will procure a "pay-as-you-go" recovery services with specific RPO and RTO per agreed service levels. Notes (3): Cloud-to-Cloud DR. The ability to failover from one cloud environment to another. BCMBoK Competency Level BCMBoK 4: Business Continuity Strategy CL 2D: Intermediate (DR) BCM Institute's Professional Training and Certification (Source: Business Continuity Management Institute - BCM Institute)

2. Cloud disaster recovery or cloud DR is a component of a disaster recovery plan that involves maintaining copies of enterprise data in a cloud storage environment as a security measure. Source: Search Cloud Computing: Cloud disaster recovery (cloud DR) definition