Heterogeneous stacks, ransomware, and ITaaS: A DR nightmare

Disaster recovery is getting tougher as IT estates sprawl across on-prem gear, public cloud, SaaS, and third-party ITaaS providers. And it's not floods or fires causing most outages anymore - ransomware now leads the pack, taking down systems faster than any natural disaster. This makes one thing clearer: The more homogeneous …

[Anonymous Coward]

Trust

"If you don't fully trust a single provider's disaster recovery (DR) capabilities"

You shouldn't trust your MOM for disaster recovery. Nor a single provider.

[Anonymous Coward]

DRaaS

"There are many disaster-recovery-as-a-service, or DRaaS, suppliers, with Gartner having a Peer Insights list of 63."

That sounds as reliable and trustworthy as antivirus protection. It might help, but you only know when it is too late.

[beardman]

The more homogenous your infrastructure is the easier it is to take it down in one swoop. Take it from biology - it's the diversity that makes a specie resistant to a disease.

[m4r35n357]

Species

[ICL1900-G3]

Maybe...

...CTOs should have thought through the implications of joining this fashionable cloudy madness. No one will look after your stuff as well as you could.

[Paul Crawford]

Yes, this costs money. And yes, it's frustrating when you've outsourced IT to save money. But ignoring it could cost a lot more.

Most of the "cost savings" comes for not having to pay good IT folks on your staff to manage stuff, that is the outsourcer's job. After taking that decision who is going to independently implement/check DR?