{"id":2295,"date":"2017-10-26T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2018-06-26T12:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:03:46","slug":"cloud_migration_guide_review_disaster_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/cloud_migration_guide_review_disaster_plan\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Step Guide to Successfully Migrating to the Cloud: Review Your Current Disaster Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Congratulations on reaching the final step in our guide to successfully making the move to the cloud<\/a>. After lots of hard work, you\u2019re almost there. However, you still have one thing left to accomplish: reviewing your current disaster plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous Cloud Migration Steps
\n<\/strong>Before we dive into the final part of this series, feel free to take a minute to review the steps that got us to this point.<\/p>\n

Step 1: <\/strong>Know Your Current Needs and Goals<\/a>
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\nStep 2: <\/strong>Determine Your Future Needs and Goals<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 3: <\/strong>Consider Your Current Obligations<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 4: <\/strong>Determine the Impact of Inaccessible Systems<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 5: <\/strong>Review Your Bandwidth Performance<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 6: <\/strong>Review Line of Business Application Performance<\/a><\/p>\n

Step 7: Review Your Disaster Plan
\n<\/strong>If disaster strikes, can your business bounce back quickly? Downtime can come at a high cost: An unplanned data center outage costs an average of $8,851 per minute, according to the 2016 Cost of Data Center Outages report<\/a> from the Ponemon Institute and Emerson Network Power.<\/p>\n

Need a little bit more help?\u00a0 All businesses need to identify their recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). This will make it easier for you to understand how significantly data loss would impact your business. We encourage you break this down on a per department level, which helps you identify a comprehensive and overarching perspective.<\/p>\n