Newsflash

According to an AT&T Survey of 100 Chicago firms (revenues <$10M), 81 have DR plans, but only 43% have fully tested their plans within the last 12 months and 12% admitted they have never tested their business continuity plans.

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Data is Key

Next to personnel, data is your most irreplaceable asset. Networks, application hosting platforms, and end user computing environments can be replaced readily. Without your data, your business cannot recover...

Design

The foundation of effective recovery planning is an understanding of business processes and their tasks, workflows and data. Techniques like business process deconstruction are key to understanding which data assets are critical (because they support critical business) and which are less important.

This same analysis should precede security planning, compliance planning, and even technology planning...

Data DNA

Successful continuity planning is a straightforward application of common sense that leverages systems development lifecycle methods and widely understood project management techniques.

You don't need a special certification to build a workable plan.

Testing

To remain current with business and technology change, plans must be tested. However, of the 50% or so of companies that build continuity plans, fewer than 50% actually test their plans, which is like having no plan at all.

Software "aggregators" and "wrappers" are appearing that might help simplify this task.

Recovery

"Pushbutton Recovery" may still be a dream, but by building in, rather than bolting on, resiliency and failover capabilities, we are getting closer to Business Continuity nirvana every day.

Keep apprised of developments here on DRPlanning.org.

No FUD, Just the Facts

The dependency of business processes upon the continuous availability of the technology infrastructure that supports them has never been as critical and far-reaching as it is today. Interrupt the IT infrastructure - especially normal access to data - and you effectively interrupt the business.

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