Enterprises Need To Improve Their DR Preparedness

Despite such devastating disasters and disruptions as 9/11, the European floods of 2005, and Hurricane Katrina, there is still significant room for improvement when it comes to enterprise disaster recovery preparedness according to the latest Forrester Research report.

The report titled - Six Years After 9/11, Most Firms Are Not Ready For Another Disaster, by Forrester’s senior analyst, Stephanie Balaouras is based on a survey conducted among North American and European companies. It states that about 27% of companies do not have a recovery site in the event of data centre site failure, and 23% of companies never test their disaster recovery plans.

Says Balaouras, “These results show that some companies still struggle to create convincing business cases for disaster recovery investment while others struggle with the ability to schedule the business downtime to conduct adequate disaster recovery testing. But these results also indicate that companies are beginning to regard disaster recovery not just as an insurance policy in the event of major disaster but as an ongoing strategy that’s vital to their business operations and competitiveness.”

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She adds that IT operations executives at companies should involve business owners in disaster recovery planning-budgeting and make reasonable investments in technology and recovery site alternatives.

The report observes that highly demanding recovery-time and recovery-point objectives can’t be met with traditional shared-site fixed-recovery services. Such shared IT infrastructure model cannot support recovery time objectives of less than 24 hours.