Disaster recovery provision is worthless unless you test out your plans. In this two-part series, Computer Weekly looks at disaster recovery testing in virtualised datacentres
IT has become critical to the operation of almost every company that offers goods and services to businesses and consumers.
We all depend on email to communicate, collaboration software (such as Microsoft Word and Excel) for our documents and data, plus a range of applications that manage internal operations and customer-facing platforms such as websites and mobile apps.
Disaster recovery – which describes the continuing of operations when a major IT problem hits – is a key business IT processes that has to be implemented in every organisation.
First of all, let’s put in perspective the impact of not doing effective disaster recovery.
Estimates on the cost of application and IT outages vary widely, with some figures quoting around $9000/minute.es and mobile apps.
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