Many companies have started using public cloud to host non-critical applications and for storage. Some have gone further, moving significant parts of more critical applications to the cloud.  Implementing a disaster recovery plan is an important aspect of mainframe. In this article, I will first explain how we implement cloud solutions for our clients, then highlight the factors that determine the best disaster recovery solution for your business. 

Calance went with market-leader AWS in order to achieve the following improvements in DR services:

• Reduce up to 85% in infrastructure CapEx.
• Reduce ongoing maintenance cost.
• Achieve higher Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objectives.
• No dependency on any OEMs hardware.
• Storage replication using an enterprise-grade Internet link.