Category: The Reality of Disaster Recovery

When assessing the value of a disaster recovery program for your organization, it is important to remember that DR is first and foremost an investment, because it involves upfront costs, ongoing costs, and a combination of capital and operating expenditures. Assessing an investment’s value typically involves some combination of payback period, ROI, internal rate of…

IT managers who intrinsically understand the value of a viable DR program are being constantly challenged by a difficult-to-answer question emanating from the executive suite: How much is a DR plan worth to the organization? This invariably leads to the corollary question: How can we quantify and determine how much to spend on DR?

Once you’ve located and understood the cache of disaster recovery standards – be they government mandates, industry regulations, international standards or credentialing organizations – it is up to you to determine how much of the material is applicable and useful to your organization.

If you’re looking to build your first disaster recovery (DR) plan, or even start your first DR program, taking a look at established disaster recovery and business continuity (BC) standards can be a useful place to begin. However, navigating your way through the myriad of international and industry standards available online can be also difficult…

Innovation is the engine of growth for any organization, and today that typically involves an increased reliance on IT. Yet despite IT services becoming more critical for many organizations, there remains a reluctance among some to elevate the focus of their IT disaster recovery plans. Obviously everyone would like their organization to be protected against…