The data displays the most popular disaster recovery solutions employed by organizations in the U.S., according to a 2016 survey of IT professionals. As of that period, 15% of respondents reported using a cold failover solution.
Backup to tape and the tape is then stored offsite | 42 |
Backup to a local appliance and then replicate to an offsite appliance | 38 |
Warm failover solution (ability to virtualize and recover a VM from a secondary site) | 25 |
Hot site failover (infrastructure and data is replicated in real-time) | 16 |
Cold failover solution | 15 |
Backup to an appliance which is then replicated to the cloud | 13 |