A disaster recovery plan can help you get into the cloud quickly.Many businesses will soon be operating in the cloud, whether or not they want it. Cloud operations can often cause problems and create confusion. Cloud migrations don't have to be a complete lift and shift.Leaders who are not familiar with the cloud should instead move their disaster recovery program to it. This will allow them to become more familiar and understand the cloud before migrating production workloads.What is DRaaS?Disaster recovery as a Service (DRaaS), is cloud-based disaster recovery that organizations can use in self-service, partially-managed or fully managed services. Businesses can use DR in the Cloud to have a variety of locations for failover operations. They also get to operate as normal after a disruption. DRaaS emphasizes rapid recovery to ensure that the failover process is seamless. Technology teams can also take over some of the more difficult aspects of testing and maintaining disaster recovery.Allow extra time for disaster recovery testing to allow your IT staff to learn about the cloud environment.DRaaS can be a great candidate to take the first steps into the cloud because of five reasons:DRaaS allows leaders to get familiar with cloud computing before they can conduct a production shift.IT teams can test the DRaaS solution in order to get a first-hand look at how their applications will work in a cloud environment. This allows them to identify applications that need a partial or full refactoring before migrating.Technology leaders can win early in the cloud with DRaaS without having to risk full production.DRaaS success is a way to gain the full support of stakeholders, board members, and executives.The tools used by DRaaS to replicate workloads in production environments are often the same tools that are used to migrate them. This helps the technology team practice their cloud migration strategy.Steps to get your DRaaS journey into the cloudDefine your strategyTo determine if DRaaS suits your organizational goals, do your research. If you don't feel comfortable moving to one cloud environment, it is a bad idea. It will help you to define and iterate your strategy by having cross-functional conversations between business units and company executives.
