Disaster recovery and business continuity infrastructure impacted by globalization
As 2011 budget cycle concludes along CIOs address globalization
 Implementing a cost effective IT Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Infrastructure that aligns with your organization's business strategy is essential to ensuring the success of the Information Technology function. For many IT professionals, the amount of time it takes to develop and implement such a infrastructure, and the unknown process required to complete it, makes infrastructure design and implementation a daunting task. Globalization makes it even more difficult.
- Globalisation has stretched companies' supply and information chains and made them much more vulnerable to problems created by remote disasters and crumbling infrastructure around the world.
- The cost worldwide of developing and maintaining infrastructure to meet growing demand over the next 20 years has been put at more than US$41 trillion. Disaster recovery and business continuity plans need to keep pace.
- It is not only electronic and paper data that are under increasing strain. In Brazil, ports are struggling to cope with the country's increase in exports. Bottlenecks have caused goods to pile up on the quayside, while ships wait to be unloaded
- It is important for companies that export globally or rely on key raw materials and parts from overseas that they include infrastructure risk in their disaster recovery and business continuity p[lanning.
- The simplest way to assess your vulnerability is to ask how much would it cost if one of your key international suppliers fails to deliver.
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Disaster Planning Best Practices
Without a good Disaster Plan Business Continuity is at risk
Planning for a disaster is a difficult task at best. A major provider of disaster recovery services, lists hardware problems as the number one cause of disaster, followed by power outages, hurricanes and floods. CIOs often ask "What scenarios should we prepare for" and "How likely is it that it will happen to us" When one thinks of disasters, big events such as Hurricane Katrina or 9/11 are the first come to mind. But if we look at the ultimate consequence of a disaster - downtime - we can see that any event, large or small, can have the same effect on IT infrastructure.
Disaster recovery and business continuity best practices are well documented in the Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Planning Template. The top 7 best practices are:
- Focus on operations
- Train everyone on how to execute the DRP and BCP
- Have a clear definition for declaring when a disaster or business interruption occurs that will set the DRP and BCP process into motion -
- Integrate DRP and BCP with change management
- Focus on addressing issues BEFORE they impact the enterprise
- Validate that all technology is properly installed and configured right from the start
- Monitor the processes and people to know what critical
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