What is Disaster Recovery (DR)? Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity
Planning (BCP) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) are all processes
that deal with the ability to continue operations in the face of
events that hinder, damage or endanger IT services, facilities or
people. Business Continuity planning/Contingency planning is a process
that defines exactly how, for which applications and potentially
for how long a business plans to keep functioning after a disruptive
event. In the wake of September 11, 2001, when most people think
of DR they unfortunately think of catastrophic or cataclysmic events.
Disruptive events however, can range from a small hardware failure,
to human error to events similar or potentially even more serious
than the events of 9/11/01.
Here is a quick summary of the causes
for application downtime:
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