How can continuous data protection benefit disaster recovery?
The essence of CDP is being able to recover to any specific point in time when there is a problem such as data corruption, accidental deletion or a disaster — fire, flood, earthquake, terrorist attack, etc. Continuous data protection provides businesses with a great way to recover from unexpected events. It’s a technology that can help you with procedures and take the pain out of the process if you have the resources to justify investing in it and maintaining it long-term. Can continuous data protection make disaster recovery testing easier? Yes, continuous data protection can make disaster recovery testing easier. I see a lot of companies with pretty well-documented disaster recovery plans, but they’ve never actually tested their plan. A lot of people find out the hard way that “hope” is not a strategy. With CDP, testing can be carried out relatively quickly. So, it’s easy to know if that portion of your disaster recovery plan does or does not work. You are going to have the right CD
