How IBM Cloud prepares for disaster recovery

IBM Cloud follows best practices for disaster recovery. All IBM Cloud applications are designed to automatically recover and restart after any disaster event. Recovery is from electronic backups at a recovery center or alternative computing facilities that restore computing. The disaster recovery plan includes the systems and hosting requirements for hardware, software, networking connectivity, and offsite backup capabilities.

The following list includes the requirements that IBM adheres to for a disaster recovery plan:

• A design document that explains how load balancing is used to keep a service highly available.
• Where a multi-site failover occurs, the disaster recovery plan must explain who does what to cause the failover and ensure the service restarts.
• The disaster recovery plan must define how the solution works. Include restore point objectives that clearly explain how much data might be lost in the outage, if any. The disaster recovery plan also includes a detailed recovery workflow for restoring services and data if a multi-availability zone failure occurs.
• The plan must confirm how the Maximum Tolerable Downtime is met.
• The disaster recovery plan specifies the security controls for running in Disaster mode, if they are different from what's running in production.
• The plan must be stored on the Disaster Recovery Plan database.