If all of your business data and IT resources were destroyed, how quickly could you get your business up and running again? How long would it take to restore mission-critical, and then full, IT functionality? If your data center were destroyed now, how current is the data in your most recent backup?
These and related questions lie at the heart of a critical, but often underfunded and under-resourced, concern for small and midsize businesses: What's the best-case scenario for getting back to business after a worst case disaster?
Of course, putting a
disaster recovery plan in place and testing it properly costs money, and that's tough to come by nowadays. But given the disasters that have devastated various regions in the past few years, senior management at most organizations are now more cognizant of the need for business continuity and
disaster recovery planning and preparedness. At the same time, the introduction of new technologies and the maturation of others have made effective disaster recovery products accessible to a wider swath of organizations than ever before; these include server virtualization, metropolitan Ethernet services, continuous data protection (CDP), and inexpensive disk storage.
Don't Miss: Disaster Recovery Requires More Than Data Recovery
Excerpted from "Disaster Preparedness For Small And Midsize Businesses," an exclusive InformationWeek Analytics report presented by bMighty.
