When the pandemic arrived in early 2020, many companies quickly learned the risk of not having a robust disaster recovery plan in place. To these places, assuming they had any plan at all, it was viewed as a lesser concern, or as something that would never actually be needed. Instead, as the pandemic drove massive rapid changes in how businesses operate and where people work, those organizations that weren’t prepared found themselves struggling to adjust to the new environment.
Writing at TDWI.com, Patrick Doherty, chief revenue officer at Flexential, talks about the ways in which 2020 revealed the critical nature of disaster recovery plans, and what companies can learn. From starting with a business impact analysis to identify critical infrastructure and determining appropriate disaster recovery budgets, to the importance of testing and training via tabletop exercises and employee education, to the use of data backups and redundant systems for data availability, Doherty offers some insights as to how companies can build or rebuild their disaster recovery plans to ensure they won’t be caught by the next disastrous surprise.
Source:
https://tdwi.org/articles/2021/01/19/dwt-all-why-2020-was-the-year-of-disaster-recovery.aspx
