Abstract
<p><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 宋体; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">Disaster recovery and business continuity plans are essential to make sure businesses keep on going. However, many small and medium businesses feel that these plans can cost them a lot. Moreover, the issues of cost and operation overhead prevent them from having solid disaster recovery plans. However, with the spread of cloud computing and pay-as-you-go and pay-for-what-you-use models, issues of operational overhead and expensive investment in extra storage and extra infrastructure are significantly minimized. On the other hand, as it becomes more affordable, businesses want to make sure they get the most optimal solution for minimum cost and overhead. In this work, we propose an adaptive cloud-based disaster recovery model that will be flexible in protecting data and applications with different plans by considering changes in risk levels and at the same time managing the costs and billing issues associated with the cloud. Therefore, this suggests an adaptive model to manage resources on the go while keeping costs as planned with the best possible protection.</span></p>
Highlights
1.1 Introduction to Disaster Recovery OptimizationBusiness Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans are becoming standard requirements as part of any organization’s IT department, sometimes as a government regulation and sometimes as a standard, for example, ISO 22301 (ISO, 2011) for business continuity and ISO 24762 for disaster recovery (ISO & IEC, 2008)
A study by Semantic shows that 57% of small businesses and 47% of medium businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan (Semantic, 2011)
A study by Cisco and Fortune showed that about 49% of small businesses owners do not have disaster recovery plan, fearing extra costs of remote sites and operational overhead (Cisco, 2015)
Summary
Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery Plans are becoming standard requirements as part of any organization’s IT department, sometimes as a government regulation and sometimes as a standard, for example, ISO 22301 (ISO, 2011) for business continuity and ISO 24762 for disaster recovery (ISO & IEC, 2008). This is the case in big organizations because they realize the benefits; they have the capacity to dedicate some of their resources to this purpose. SMBs need to plan their budgets to make sure that they spend funds in the best optimized way
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