Hey All - this is Lynn Shourds, President & CTO of HEROware. In a recent survey from Forrester Research posted on CSO Online, "...business continuity and disaster recovery plans will be a major concern and increased area of spending in the next 12 months".
According to Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor at CSO, the scope of BC/DR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) programs is growing to include all sources of downtime, including "mundane power outages and weather-related disruptions", not just rare, catastrophic disasters.
Looking at these findings helps to secure my position on the 24x7 Business Continuity model. Seeing that the majority of failures happen locally it is very important to have a local real-time backup with the ability to fail-over within minutes to provide that local BC. It's important to protect your company against catastrophic disasters as well, so replicating to the Cloud is a great way to round out your BC/DR plan.
As Joan explains, it's traditionally been difficult to quantify the spending on a BC/DR plan. However, the increased level of risk associated with lost data and system downtime have most companies viewing their BC/DR budgets differently. As systems become more demanding, especially email and database apps, the higher the demand is for faster recovery times and less loss of data.
This report from Forrester Research states that "considering the level of priority and increased investment, BC/DR can confidently consider itself among the critical elements of a comprehensive IT program".
For all of us here at HEROware, that's really good news!
Thanks for listening,
Lynn
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