Business continuity means more than just securing your data
When it comes to disaster recovery, data is only one aspect of the entire business continuity framework.
But in their implementation of disaster recovery solutions, many organisations today are in a situation analagous to that of the emperor in the fairy tale The Emperor’s New Clothes.
They have purchased extremely expensive systems, dedicated almost wholly to the securing of data, without paying attention to the development of the operational and procedural processes that are required to effectively implement them. Again, when it comes to disaster recovery, data is only one aspect of the entire business continuity framework.
First, once the demands of the business have been identified, the technical requirements for the design of a disaster recovery environment should be formulated. Whilst the former may well be unfeasible and wholly unrealistic, the negotiation between what is desired and what is technically achievable is best arrived at through commercial attrition. In this manner the business is both enlightened and forced to establish the operational criteria for business continuance after a catastrophic event.