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1. Business Alignment: Ensure that resilience requirements are aligned with business needs. Misalignment can lead to insufficient resilience measures or excessive spending.
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2. Risk-Based Approach: Adopt a risk-based approach to resiliency planning that looks beyond just catastrophic events.
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3. Dependency Mapping: Develop dependency graphs that map all system components, databases, cloud services, and integration points so that they can be architected and configured for resilience and included in both reliability and disaster recovery planning.
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4. Continuous Availability: Aim for uninterrupted availability of applications, services, and data, minimizing downtime and impact in failure scenarios.
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5. Resilient-By-Design: Design applications to be naturally resilient. Infrastructure resilience alone is not sufficient to offer the zero-downtime services that end users expect.
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6. DR Automation: Utilizing complete (or near complete) automated disaster recovery solutions
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7. Resilience Standards: Embrace resilience standards that extend beyond architecture and disaster recovery, focusing on quality, automation, and continuous improvement throughout an application’s lifecycle.
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8. Favour Cloud-Native Solutions: Leverage the extensive range of resilience solutions offered by cloud providers, avoiding the complexity of creating in-house alternatives.
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9. Business Functions Focus: In disaster recovery, consider lightweight or minimal functionality options that maintain critical business operations, rather than exact full-scale replicas.
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