Setting the Stage for DR Planning 

Disaster Recovery Planning is about business survival. As companies have become more and more dependent upon the uninterrupted operation of the machine to support mission-critical business processes, they have also become more vulnerable to man-made and natural disaster potentials that can interfere with the normal operations of their automation infrastructure.

Disaster recovery planning stands between corporate operations and interruption events. DR planning seeks to prevent interruption events that can be anticipated and avoided and to mitigate the impact of interruption events that cannot be prevented.

This page is a Signature Site of Toigo Partners International, a global consultancy helmed by Jon William Toigo, who is also the administrator of this web page.

Toigo is a veteran planner, business automation consultant, and author. The first edition of his book in 1990 is widely regarded as an industry classic and served as a primer to thousands of DR planners and emergency managers throughout the last decade of the 1990s. Disaster Recovery Planning, 3rd Edition, with its focus on emerging technologies and evolving DR planning requirements, is intended to serve the community of veteran planners as well as the newcomers to the field who confront entirely new challenges in a new Millenium. This site helps to keep the primer current.

It is our hope that this site will provide a valuable information resource to DR planners in the form of presentations, discussions and links to other general and specific information on techniques, methods and technologies. However, this can only happen with your participation in our virtual community.

This is ultimately your site. You, the DR planner or service provider, can help to steer the evolution of this site, the DR planning field and the DRP industry toward a set of best practices and products for accomplishing the mission of disaster recovery planning. Please participate in discussion group message threads and share your thoughts, experience and discoveries with your peers. Help to make this site a trustworthy advisor for your disaster recovery planning projects.