Disaster recovery: Balancing performance, risk and cost

The two most common DR site patterns balance near sites for performance against far sites for regional risk protection. Your RTO and RPO targets should drive a tiered investment strategy across workloads. What matters most is separating correlated risks (power, network paths and cloud dependencies), not raw distance. A neutral hub with controlled, one-directional replication and continuous failover testing closes the gaps that most DR plans miss.