Disaster Recovery Planning

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Disaster Recovery Planning
Business organizations from different industries like healthcare, information technology, transportation, banking, etc., require a mature disaster recovery program to minimize business disruption due to unexpected failures, natural disasters or targeted cyber attacks. Technical professionals responsible for managing disaster recovery can leverage best practices and proven guidance template to effectively manage their company’s disaster recovery plans. They are also responsible for making sure that their organization’s business continuity plan is in place when a disaster struck. In a disaster situation, worker safety and a personal safety plan should always come first and put on the highest priority. If following a …show more content…

This type of service can be very convenient during an “outage or disaster scenario because it can protect and natively supports the enterprise applications or any cloud disaster recovery efforts.” (Glick et al., …show more content…

Business organizations do not want to compromise the end-user experience or allow for service disruption. Achieving continuous operations through a successful Business Continuity Plan so that business service being consumed is not interrupted, making downtime transparent to the end users. Business Continuity is a strong competitive differentiator for a business because they can withstand component failures affecting networking components, hardware, operating systems, catastrophes such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and other natural disasters. They can introduce changes, like scheduled updates and security patches, without disruption. A company cannot attain a successful Business Continuity without having the two components, Data Backup Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan, in place and business can carry them out successfully. Both Disaster Recovery Plan and Data Backup Plan provide detailed strategies for the steps that employees must follow during, and immediately after, a disaster. Resuming business operation can assure a company to successfully accomplish their Business Continuity Plan. A successful Disaster Recovery Plan is dependent on restoring the company’s critical data from the data backup which would allow the company to resume their business

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