To remain competitive in a global marketplace, businesses need to adapt quickly to ever‐changing requirements. These days consumers and businesses expect to get the products and data where and when they want it. With data continuing to grow at a dizzying pace and new technologies like server and storage virtualization, orchestration, automation, and even cloud services more readily available and adopted, organizations can easily become overwhelmed when it comes to architecting an effective business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) environment. This paper provides practical advice for maintaining a functional DR strategy, and for streamlining business continuity solutions.