Disaster Recovery

What is Disaster Recovery?

Disaster Recovery is, as the term implies, focused on recovering from one or more disruptive events.  In recent years, the limits of this approach have been recognized and current best practices incorporate disaster recovery as a subset of broader emergency response and continuity of operations planning.  Disaster Recovery is not only data recovery, but also application recovery and replacement hardware.

What is Disaster Recovery Planning for IT?

• Resilience is the ability of systems and processes to absorb the impacts of an event and continue or return to providing expected services
• How does IT prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events?
• How does IT support the rest of organization in the disaster recovery process?
• What are the priorities?

 Relationship of Disaster Recovery Planning to Business Continuity Planning

Disaster Recovery focuses on replacing losses or outages of information technology services. In contrast, Business Continuity Planning focuses on maintaining mission critical IT activities in the face of potential disruption, and recovering back to the normal delivery of services.