Disaster recovery: does your management get it?
By David Almquist and Lane F. Cooper
BizTechReports.Com
Less than half of over 750 companies surveyed have disaster recovery and business continuity strategies in place, according to researchers at UK-based Chartered Management Institute. And even among those who do have a plan in place, 75 percent report that efforts are likely to be "haphazard" and "untested".
Experts have concluded that if a disaster recovery plan is not universally understood and practiced…then it is probably not terribly more than a fig leaf
The best disaster recovery plans are based on a multi-disciplinary framework of priorities. “You can’t just look at the technology in isolation,” says Patrick Corcoran, Global Client Solutions Executive at IBM. “You also need to understand how your plan supports the corporate strategy, organization, processes, applications, data and infrastructure. If you don’t integrate these, you could have unexpected vulnerabilities.”