Disaster Recovery: Getting Back to Business

According to Computer Technology Review, getting the data back might be the easiest part of the disaster recovery process. More important is knowing what is going to happen with that data after it is restored, and what you will do while the data is being restored.

"Disaster recovery is about imagination. A simple exercise involving key business and IT folks sitting around a conference table and imagining what disaster could happen and thinking about what might happen afterwards can set a business on the right course. If you give thought to something before it happens, the chances of a better reaction are higher.

"For this exercise to be most effective it is essential that you involve as many people outside of IT as possible. If this is an IT only exercise it will be much less effective. Use your other stakeholders. Their impressions are probably different from yours; different, but equally as valuable."