Data Storage
Recovery planning stays with the customer, not the platform Resilient infrastructure and a tested recovery plan are not the same thing. Microsoſt’s shared responsibility guidance for Azure reliability states clearly that while the platform provides infrastructure availability, configuring and testing a disaster recovery strategy matched to specific business objectives remains the customer’s responsibility. Recovery failures rarely stem from a complete platform outage.
More oſten they come from failover processes that have never been tested at the right scale; recovery environments that are geographically remote from operations; or restored services that no longer reflect the production state the business depends on. Migrating a workload without revisiting the recovery design carries those risks forward. We speak to businesses regularly that assumed their cloud
provider’s resilience model covered their recovery needs. What they find when they test, or when they need to invoke a plan, is that the recovery environment is in a different region, latency is higher than expected, and the restored service does not perform as the business requires. Continuity planning has to start with what the business actually needs, then work back to where workloads should sit.
Placing workloads according to what they require Hybrid infrastructure has come back into focus because most
estates contain workloads with genuinely different requirements. A front-end service with unpredictable traffic spikes suits the elasticity of public cloud. A latency-sensitive application or AI inference workload may need to sit closer to users, because routing requests to a distant cloud region adds delay that real- time processing cannot absorb. A recovery environment needs to be geographically separated from production while remaining operationally reachable. Regulated data may need to be held in a jurisdiction that can be clearly evidenced to auditors. Treating all as equivalent, and placing them in the same environment by default, is where performance problems and recovery gaps accumulate. Pulsant operates 14 UK data centres across a UK national
footprint, giving businesses genuine flexibility over where workloads and recovery environments sit. For organisations with data residency requirements, a UK colocation model makes jurisdiction easier to demonstrate than infrastructure spread across hyperscale regions. Edge Fabric provides private, high- bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between sites and clouds, keeping a distributed model operationally coherent. Te public cloud plays a legitimate role in most enterprise
infrastructure strategies. Te more useful question is which workloads belong there, and which need a private environment with tighter controls over data placement, performance, and recovery.
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