Today’s organisation is increasingly dependent on its IT infrastructure and communications network. Remote offices, customers and business partners are all reliant on their ability to access your core systems, Intranet or Extranet – often 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Disaster recovery of your systems is therefore fundamental to your organisational risk strategy. In assessing your risk, you need to consider
How would you recover your key business data in the event of a major equipment failure or outage caused by a service provider failing to deliver
What would be the financial consequences of a temporary shut-down of your data centre location – due to site contamination, industrial action or an extended telecommunications or power outage
Worse still, if your computer systems were destroyed in a major disaster such as a fire or flood, would your business even survive
According to industry analysts, the top three business risks from failure to implement an effective disaster recovery plan are decreased employee productivity, customer dissatisfaction and the loss of current and future revenues. Let’s consider the ramifications of each.
» Read more: Disaster Recovery Failure to Plan is a Plan to Fail
