We are still in the early adoption stage of DRaaS and it will continue to evolve over the coming years. But looking forward, I think more attention will be paid to the idea of avoiding disaster before it happens. So, as more intelligent solutions are developed, the industry will be able to start looking at proactive disaster avoidance.
By using predictive analytics to collect data from multiple sources and analyse the different things that could create a disaster, businesses will be able to automatically initiate the movement of data and services to data centres that aren’t at risk. They can proactively and seamlessly migrate workloads around potential threats, whether it’s a power cut, a flood, or a tornado. I think we’re going to see a lot of effort in this area because the avoidance piece is what we don’t have at the moment and it’s got to be the next big step forward in business continuity.