When disaster strikes, all eyes are on your team. Your ability to recover quickly and in the right order can make or break the organization, and every minute of downtime increases the risk to the business and your customers. But for most IT disaster recovery (ITDR) teams, building and validating recovery sequences is a complex, manual puzzle.
You have to factor in dependencies across any number of systems, ownership that’s spread across teams, and even small changes to infrastructure can throw your plans off balance. Just creating an order of recovery can take days or even weeks, and by the time it’s done, your plan may already be outdated. That’s why modern ITDR teams need a smarter, data-driven way to plan, validate, and execute recovery.
The Reality for ITDR Teams
Most IT disaster recovery solutions require teams to spend weeks creating and validating recovery sequences. They pull in data from different systems, track dependencies across multiple teams, and try to align priorities with the business. It’s an enormous lift that often doesn’t leave capacity to review and ensure the order of recovery is actually realistic.
The high resource demand of sequencing manually means that teams are limited in their ability to prepare for and test various complex scenarios. They’re also unable to identify gaps and remediate any issues with their planning. This makes plans limited in scope, error-prone, and not well-trusted.
When a disruption actually hits, those plans don’t always hold up. Teams scramble to adjust. They overlook or don’t have visibility into dependencies. Some teams may be double booked, while others may be sitting around waiting to take action. The best-laid IT disaster recovery plans turn disruption into controlled chaos. Modern IT ecosystems are too complex for manual recovery sequencing to keep up.
When every minute equals lost revenue, an outdated recovery process isn’t just inefficient; it presents substantial risk to the business. And according to Gartner, each minute of downtime can cost a company $5,600.
What If Recovery Could Be Data-Driven?
Imagine walking into an incident and already knowing the fastest, most efficient way to recover. No spreadsheets, no guesswork, no debates over ownership of each step. Better yet, your team has already proven it works.
Fusion’s new Recovery Optimization capability saves ITDR teams days of effort by automating recovery sequencing actions based on their real-time infrastructure and business priorities. Teams can then spend their time exercising as well as uncovering any gaps in their recovery plans. When a disruption occurs, you can trust in your validated plans and effectively execute the recovery.
With real-time, optimized recovery paths that minimize downtime and business impact, Recovery Optimization can save companies hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in downtime costs. It helps teams validate their ability to respond effectively under pressure, protecting revenue, reputation, and compliance.
It’s like a GPS for recovery: you set the destination, and Fusion maps the fastest, most efficient route to get there.
With Recovery Optimization, ITDR teams can:
- Save days or weeks by automating manual recovery sequencing
- Recover faster, minimizing downtime and financial impact
- Continuously validate their readiness, not just once a year
- Align recovery priorities with what matters most to the business
- Communicate clearly to executives and the board with data-backed confidence
When an incident hits, you can confidently execute a plan that’s already optimized and trusted.
From Chaos to Confidence
Disruptions will always happen. The confusion and uncertainty that come with them don’t have to. Fusion’s Recovery Optimization innovation helps ITDR teams move away from reactive recovery planning to proactive, data-driven resilience where every decision, sequence, and recovery plan is guided by data and aligned to business priorities.
Recovery Optimization gives teams an IT disaster recovery strategy they’ve never really had before: one that provides clarity. It replaces guesswork with real-time logic and ensures that recovery efforts are based on the latest data, not last quarter’s assumptions. That means fewer delays, fewer surprises, and a faster return to normal operations when it matters most. Because when every minute counts, the best plan is the one that’s already optimized.
Ready to see how it works? Reach out to our team or your Fusion Account Manager to see Recovery Optimization in action.
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