Every UAE business needs a disaster recovery plan that ensures business continuity. Here's a practical guide to building DR capabilities that actually work.
Downtime costs UAE businesses an estimated AED 100,000 or more per hour, yet many organizations lack a tested disaster recovery (DR) plan. Whether it's a ransomware attack, hardware failure, or natural disaster, the question isn't if an outage will happen — it's when. A well-designed DR plan ensures your business recovers quickly with minimal data loss.
Defining RTO and RPO
Recovery Time Objective (RTO) defines how quickly you need to restore operations. Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines how much data loss is acceptable. A financial services firm might need an RTO of 1 hour and RPO of 15 minutes, while a less critical system might tolerate 24-hour RTO and 4-hour RPO. These metrics drive your DR architecture and budget.
Cloud-Based DR Strategies
Cloud has dramatically reduced the cost of disaster recovery. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery enable affordable replication of on-premises workloads to the cloud. For cloud-native applications, multi-region deployment with automated failover provides enterprise-grade resilience.
Testing Your DR Plan
A DR plan that hasn't been tested is just a document. Schedule regular DR drills — at minimum quarterly for critical systems. Test full failover scenarios, measure actual recovery times against your RTO/RPO targets, and document gaps for remediation. Many UAE businesses discover during testing that their DR plan has critical dependencies they hadn't anticipated.
Bayden helps UAE businesses design, implement, and regularly test disaster recovery solutions that match their risk profile and budget. Our managed DR services include 24/7 monitoring, automated failover, and guaranteed recovery within defined SLAs.
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