In Disaster Recovery Uptime Not Equal to User Productivity
Are you wasting disaster recovery budget to avoid employee inconvenience?
Richard Jones, Contributor, 08.31.2009 from TechTarget.com
Most businesses recognize the importance of ensuring high availability and quick disaster recovery of their mission-critical applications and data to avoid financial losses after a system failure or disaster. But as I've talked to a number of IT organizations, I've found only a few that have properly balanced the technology costs with the needs of the organization. Read more articles on disaster recovery from KellyRShort.com: http://kellyrshort.com/wordmaverick-mt/mt-search.fcgi?IncludeBlogs=2&search=disaster+recovery Most IT organizations don't know if their critical business applications and data are properly protected. They have applied what they feel are the proper levels of technology, but often they have over-invested, possibly meeting the needs of one or two critical applications (but they don't know that for sure), with overkill for all other applications. Most IT organizations understand that performing a business impact analysis (BIA) will help them apply the proper technology to prevent business loss. However, I have witnessed a mistake made by nearly all companies that embark for their first time on a BIA. Is avoiding employee inconvenience mission critical? Topics: Disaster recovery disaster recovery plan Disaster recovery planning disaster recovery plan business continuity disaster recovery planning Disaster recovery software Recovery backup Backup software data backup server backup online backup services |
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