Bangalore: It’s clear that natural disasters can cause or lead to a pretty big downtime for every single organization’s across the globe. We know what natural calamities like earthquakes, snowstorms, hurricanes or even other similar events can do to data centers and other corporate facilities. So it’s clear that companies should have a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

Disaster Recovery or simply, DR has always been influenced by many trends that make organizations to plan, execute and test their own recovery strategies. It’s the duty of the IT organizations and security providers to improve the trends in disaster recovery, so that organizations can pick up the steps rather to complicate their efforts. So here’s a look at four of the top tech trends that can have an impact in IT disaster recovery.

#1. Cloud Services:

As the use of cloud strategy improvises day by day, organizations and other IT firms that depends on this technology thinks that these resources can clearly be a part of disaster recovery strategy. Bill Thirsk, vice president of IT and CIO of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York said that "The cloud configuration allows us to perform software upgrades across the multiple tenant systems quickly, easily and without disruptions, because our storage is virtualized, we can replicate data across SANS [storage-area networks] that we have placed strategically on our campus in numerous locations and in our data center. A loss of a SAN means only that production operations switches over to another."

According to an earlier report from Forrester Research, many companies think that cloud strategy is the one trend to watch out for as it has all the strength to shake up the legacy systems and can be raised as a viable alternative to organizations in disaster recovery trends.