Industry Findings: Governance and geopolitical risk have elevated recoverability into a strategic national priority across Eastern Europe, prompting governments to insist on locally demonstrable fallback capacity and documented restore procedures. A non-vendor inflection came in Apr-2024 when several national CERTs published aggregated advisories calling for mandatory recovery-testing cycles for critical infrastructure operators. That advisory led utilities and financial institutions to contract pre-approved fallback sites within neighbouring jurisdictions and to mandate periodic restore rehearsals with certified evidence trails. The upshot is that procurement increasingly selects suppliers able to guarantee near-term availability of regional fallback capacity and provide legally defensible restore attestations.
Industry Player Insights: Eastern Europe landscape continues to be shaped by Asseco, Comarch, SoftServe, and Orange Polska etc. Vendors are racing to convert national resilience requirements into deployable services. Asseco formalised a region-wide managed continuity bundle in Jul-2024 that pairs certified recovery playbooks with local colocation capacity, enabling customers to demonstrate repeatable restores under audit. SoftServe expanded its DR orchestration integrations in Nov-2024 to support complex app stacks typical in finance and public services. These developments compel buyers to prioritise vendors that combine regional footprint, verified rehearsal outputs and integration expertise across heterogeneous estates.