Business continuity starts with portability
Blog post from Upsun
Business continuity plans often assume that the infrastructure they rely on will be available and recoverable within set timelines, yet a gap exists between these plans and actual recovery capabilities, as highlighted by the fact that 90% of organizations are confident in meeting their recovery time objectives (RTOs), but only 69% find these RTOs aligned with business goals. This misalignment is often due to architectural constraints rather than poor planning, emphasizing the need for workload portability to ensure resilience against provider failures. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) mandates that financial entities manage concentration risk with third-party providers, indicating a regulatory shift toward recognizing cloud provider concentration as a systemic risk. Achieving effective portability requires architectural adjustments such as defining infrastructure in code, decoupling environment provisioning from provider-specific tools, and utilizing open standards in deployment pipelines, which allows for critical workload migration without being hindered by proprietary dependencies. The discussion around portability is becoming increasingly important, especially for organizations facing significant financial or regulatory exposure due to infrastructure dependencies, suggesting the need for high-level strategic conversations on portability's role in continuity planning.
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