For Comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Automate
Some confusion seems to persist in the marketplace regarding the difference between business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) processes. Repeatedly, businesses use one term to refer to the actions described by the other. Meanwhile, many organizations are falling short in one or both areas, and the results—eventually—could be disastrous.
No one wants to think about disasters. No one wants to ask difficult questions about how a firm can conduct normal activities if its data center goes down or its building is impaired. We are a culture that finds such topics distasteful, and the questions surrounding them are hard to answer. Equally unpleasant is the prospect of evaluating the real, comprehensive costs of the current, poor or ineffective data protection solution.
Companies that fail to plan for adequate BCDR, however, will undoubtedly learn that they need it, and the lesson will be painful. By embracing automation, businesses can overcome the two main challenges that hold them back from adequate BCDR planning.
See For Comprehensive Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Automate, by Bobby Crouch for The Datacenter Journal.
