Welcome to week one of the Cutover Summer Sprint! The often quieter summer months are a great time to brush up on your IT, cloud and cyber disaster recovery knowledge and get ready to hit the ground running in the autumn. That’s why, over the next four weeks, we’ll be sharing content, learnings and advice covering four themes:
- Walk: Building the foundations of IT disaster recovery
- Jog: Simplifying the complexity of cloud recovery
- Run: Strengthening cyber recovery
- Sprint: Automating your IT disaster recovery
It’s a well-known fact that you need to learn to walk before you can run. This week is about ensuring you have a solid foundation of IT DR knowledge to build on and innovate. Read our advice and resources below to learn more.
Common IT disaster recovery challenges
Problem: “I want to improve my IT disaster recovery but don’t know where to start.”
Advice: Before you can begin to improve your IT disaster recovery processes, you need to understand where you are now in your level of maturity and how you compare to your peers. Read our paper on the IT DR maturity journey to see how you measure up, and use our new confidence index to work out how confident you can be in your ability to recover.
Problem: “Outages are increasing but recovery is slowing down.”
Advice: As the recent CrowdStrike outage proves, even small errors can lead to catastrophic consequences and preparedness for rapid recovery is essential. Many organizations are not updating their recovery plans often enough and do not have a comprehensive process in place that can be invoked and executed seamlessly. Ensuring regular review, improvement, and testing of your DR plans can help to alleviate these risks.
Problem: “I’m struggling with manual processes and a lack of the right automation tooling and skillsets”
Advice: Our recent survey of IT leaders found that 82% of organizations recognize the need to increase investment in DR automation. However, a lack of skills in this area creates challenges. Finding the right DR automation tooling and strategic hiring will be necessary to bridge the gap and make the most of automation and AI advances.
Resources
➡️White paper: How to progress through the IT DR maturity journey
➡️Tool: IT disaster recovery confidence index
➡️Blog post: Four ways to improve IT disaster recovery execution
➡️Webinar: How to mature your IT disaster recovery approach
➡️Blog post: 6 benefits of advanced automation for IT disaster recovery
➡️White paper: How to build your IT DR plan with Cutover
Key takeaways
📈 Understanding your level of IT DR maturity and confidence is an essential step to improving recovery.
⚠️ With outages increasing in frequency and severity, recovery preparedness is more important than ever.
🤖 Automation helps you move faster and be more confident but you need to develop your team’s skills to go along with it.