It’s the fourth and final week of the Cutover IT DR Summer Sprint. We hope you’ve found our resources and advice helpful so far!
No matter how well practiced your IT disaster recovery, you’re never going to be able to go as fast as you can without the right automation in place.
Find out how you can really get your recovery moving with the advice and resources below.
COMMON AUTOMATION CHALLENGES
Problem: “I use various automation tools for DR, but I can’t easily view the whole picture during an actual recovery.”
Advice: Approach automation as part of your overall DR strategy. Start small, but consider the full impact of each tool and how to bring it all together so you can increase efficiency, reduce manual errors, and unlock productivity.
Problem: “I’m struggling to manage my DR plans in spreadsheets.”
Advice: Build automated runbooks that integrate with the rest of your tech stack to map an organized strategy and test disasters efficiently, so you can respond to disasters with confidence.
Problem: “I don’t know how to incorporate AI into my disaster recovery strategy.”
Advice: AI-enabled runbooks provide a fast way to improve disaster recovery effectiveness. You can get suggestions on how to intelligently improve your DR runbook. AI can help uncover potential bottlenecks or inefficiencies during recoveries too.
RESOURCES
➡️Blog post: What is a runbook?
➡️Blog post: DR automation: Why it’s imperative to your DR strategy
➡️White paper: Guide to runbook automation
➡️Fact sheet: Cutover AI
KEY TAKEAWAYS
🤖 Many organizations have adopted automation but lack a joined-up process, leading to inefficiencies despite high levels of automation.
🏃 Combining all your automated activities with manual ones in one central platform for execution will help you recover faster with more confidence.
⏳ Using AI to summarize, improve and even create runbooks creates even more efficiency gains.