Outsourcing Disaster Recovery InfoWorld

Outsourcing disaster recovery InfoWorld – There was a recent forum conducted by InfoWorld and focused on outsourcing disaster recovery, which also held ones interest for a longer than usual period. A couple of interesting tidbits from that forum related here.

Outsourcing disaster recovery InfoWorld - unavailability

Businesses should assess the potential impact of "unavailability" when considering continuity solutions: What would happen to the business if an application were unavailable, if a database was found to be corrupt, or if users could not get access?

Businesses should then evaluate available options that can ensure greater availability, assessing how they will work with the existing infrastructure, and minimizing the impact to current operations while incrementally adding business continuity.

Outsourcing disaster recovery InfoWorld – long term survival

Recent studies have shown that without proper business continuity planning, the long-term survival of the enterprise may be put at risk in the case of an IT disaster.

Disasters take all sorts of forms beyond the obvious flood/fire/natural/terrorism and such, more often being a result of bugs in applications and human error that may either directly impact availability or corrupt a database.

The key becomes how quickly the enterprise can recover, with data integrity.