Proactive disaster recovery based on external event monitoring

A system for proactive disaster recovery preparation, the system comprising:

• a plurality of sensors including a sensor in a first area of a data center, the sensor configured to provide sensor data that captures an attribute of an environment proximate to a server in the first area;
• a hardware processor configured to:
• detect, based on the sensor data received from the sensor, a first event that is a potential threat in data loss or breach at a server in the first area;
• identify, from a plurality of event escalation trees, an event escalation tree comprising the first event, wherein each respective event escalation tree defines a unique sequence of events and a respective action of a disaster recovery preparation process to execute for each respective event, and wherein events of the identified event escalation tree indicate a progression of the potential threat to additional areas in the data center and corresponding actions to the events indicate transferring data from servers in areas where the potential threat is detected to servers in other areas within the data center where the potential threat is not detected;
• and
• responsive to detecting the events at the data center sequentially ordered in accordance with the identified event escalation tree, sequentially execute the corresponding actions of the disaster recovery preparation process.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for proactive disaster recovery preparation, including instructions for:

• detecting, based on sensor data received from a sensor in a first area of a data center, a first event that is a potential threat in data loss or breach at a server in the first area, wherein the sensor data captures an attribute of an environment proximate to the server;
• identifying, from a plurality of event escalation trees, an event escalation tree comprising the first event, wherein each respective event escalation tree defines a unique sequence of events and a respective action of a disaster recovery preparation process to execute for each respective event, and wherein events of the identified event escalation tree indicate a progression of the potential threat to additional areas in the data center and corresponding actions to the events indicate transferring data from servers in areas where the potential threat is detected to servers in other areas within the data center where the potential threat is not detected;
• and
• responsive to detecting the events at the data center sequentially ordered in accordance with the identified event escalation tree, sequentially executing the corresponding actions of the disaster recovery preparation process.