Disaster Recovery is Ad Hoc and Expensive, Users Say

Only two out of 300 companies are performing change control testing as part of the disaster recovery plan, according to users at a Florida conference last week. And most say their companies are still struggling with DR.

According to an article by Jo Maitland on the SearchSMB.com website, the security pros were attending Gartner Inc.’s storage show last week in Orlando. Maitland said most users who were they said they test their DR plans once a year.

In an electronic poll of the audience, Maitland reports 44 percent said DR was still a project in their company, 30 percent said it was a process and a mere six percent said it was integrated with business objectives.

When asked what their DR strategy is for their most critical applications, Maitland reports 20 percent said they perform production load sharing, 22 percent said they perform production failover and recovery to development and test equipment, 23 percent said they perform production failover and recovery to an outsourced facility and 30 percent of the audience said they perform production failover and recovery to a standby facility. A quarter of the crowd did not have a DR plan for less critical applications.

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