How to Conduct an “End-to-End” Disaster Recovery Exercise in Real Time

Many times organizations conduct traditional disaster recovery exercises where testing is done in silos, and the scope is limited and restricted only to host level recovery of individual systems. With growing technology changes and globalization trends, the intricacy and interdependencies of applications have become more complex in recent years, and major applications are spread across multiple locations and multiple servers. In this scenario, a traditional recovery exercise focusing on server (host) level recovery is not going to adequately ensure the complete recovery of the application without any inconsistencies among various interdependent subcomponents. In a widespread disaster scenario involving major outages…