“Are you willing to take a risk?”

 

Natural disaster or man-made disaster can create a turbulence and devastating effect on an organization. Studies have shown that many organizations have failed and never recovered after experiencing a significant data loss. Based on 2015 disaster recovery statistics, The Professional Practices for Business Continuity Management, downtime last about an hour can cost small organizations $8000 and large organizations over $700,000.

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Disaster Recovery is all about ensuring business continuity planning. This involves set of policies, tools and procedures to enable the stability of vital IT infrastructure. As the technologies are advancing, the organizations are become more reliant and dependent on modern IT infrastructure. Without it, companies, can’t access to their stocks and shares, finances, data analysis, research, internal and external communications, news, weather, and other important reports. Organizations daily rely on internet and intranet to access their database and files.

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To prevent outages, down-time, and loss of company valued time and money, there are Strategic Data Recovery Plans that help organizations prior to any disaster. These control measure are steps that reduce or eliminate various threats to organizations and are classified in 3 categories.

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• Preventative Measures – aimed at preventing an event from occurring

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• Detective Measures – aimed to detect and discover unwanted events

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• Corrective Measures – aimed at correcting or restoring the system post-disaster event