10 Things Your Team Is Afraid To Tell You About Your Data Center Disaster Recovery Plan
Cost-cutting pressures on CIOs have led many to accept more risk and settle into a mindset that their Disaster Recovery (DR) program is comprehensive, when, in fact, it might not hold up when matched against the company’s business requirements.
Quite often, DR planning is not top of mind for senior management. With shrinking IT budgets and teams, keeping up with day-to-day responsibilities is challenging, and many IT teams will tend to focus on only the infrastructure, hardware, and software, while neglecting the people and processes that are needed to execute the plan. Introducing complexity into an IT business practice that is under-resourced can lead to an incomplete DR plan, failed recovery testing, or even worse, a company that has declared a disaster without any chance of recovering quickly.