Making the most out of your disaster recovery budgets
Written by Phil on October 7, 2009 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.
Figuring out how much to spend on disaster recovery (DR) is always difficult for organizations, but shrinking IT budgets make the problem even more acute. Despite these challenges, for some organizations, not even a lousy economy is an excuse to cut back on disaster recovery investments.
“Our capital budget is probably half of what it was last year, but we don’t scrimp on DR spending. We’ll defer a system upgrade before we defer the capital needed to maintain our DR capability,” said Harry F. Lukens, CIO of Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) and Health Network in Allentown, Pa.
See Making the most out of your disaster recovery budgets by Garry Kranz.
