Disaster recovery is an important aspect of a company’s strategy for providing uninterrupted services to its customers and end users and offers improved performance, agility and availability, reduced disruptions and loss to business, and higher customer satisfaction.

Factors to consider include:

* Accessibility of data center

* Capacity available for expansion

* Cost implications

* Data center tier

* Distance from primary data center

* Environment details

* Network latency

* Seismic zone details

* Third party services availability

Approach

1) Requirement gathering

2) Assessment

3) Decision/Report

Disaster Recovery Site Selection: Factors and Approach from Data Center Knowledge