Contingency planning evolution

摘要

The by to disaster recovery and business continuity today is operational resilience. As the relentless application of technology continues we must attempt to create an arena in which we can protect these technological a dvancements. Our reliance on 24/7/365 IT availability means that the success of any disaster recovery centre is measured in milliseconds. Many disaster recovery centre customers come from financial sectors who rely on backup centres for their IT business continuity backbone. Events of 9/11 have focused the minds of the financial services regulators to ensure that all major institutions have suitable contingency plans in operation. In some major countries, especially the US, CEOs are legally responsible for protecting their organisation's data. Companies that lose their data, forwhatever reason, are likely to go into liquidation within 14 months of the loss, so the ability to recover data is vital. However, the key to disaster recovery is not just redundancy; the resilience of the system or the networks is critical. Resilience must be applied to technology at the design stage to ensure continuity even during a cataclysmic event, which may be a natural disaster, software problems, cyber terrorism or latent design defects in the electrical and mechanical support systems of the data centre.