How cloud services change your disaster recovery plan – Ars Technica
Traditional corporate disaster recovery programs consider primarily on-premise problems, such as power outages, server failures, and data loss. These days, disaster recovery plans ought to (but frequently do not) include situations where you can’t rely on any kind of connectivity to the Internet. Even when the company has a plan to address each element that can go wrong, organizations rarely test those scenarios to make sure the backup actually works—such as, perhaps, ensuring that the nursing staff knows how to access a local system to print paper records.
