Introduction
Data and information are presently being treated as a very pertinent corporate resource. This has come as a result of innovations especially in IT where the corporate world now is embracing these innovations to establish a competitive edge. These systems are of great benefit to the organization, however, the management of these resources remains a great challenge especially as the global economic downturn continues to be evident. As the corporate world is quickly migrating to fully rely on IT innovations to drive their business solutions, disaster management and recovery for such systems are drawing a lot of corporate management attention. IT disaster recovery management procedures remain an important element of the overall corporate strategy. Adequate addressing of this process remains a challenge for many corporate entities.
Why the problem is significant from a business continuity perspective
IT disaster recovery process remains very vital. As the company continues to rely to a greater extent on IT solutions to drive their business processes, the risk that is likely should the IT system go down is becoming a reality and a disaster. At the turn of the century, the millennium bug caused a number of companies to go under. These businesses could not continue because they had underestimated the impact that this IT disaster would have on the company operations. This understanding helps us to realize how significant the IT disaster recovery management process is for the overall corporate strategy.
Presently IT disaster recovery management is being handled at the strategic level for companies that have discovered and invested in IT innovations to run their business processes.
This process has necessitated managerial and technological investment in order to reduce the impact that would result from any IT-related risk. There are currently IT disaster recovery solutions that are technologically as well as managerially oriented.
Solution on this site and what they are elected
A simplified and straightforward tool kit that addresses the various areas that require disaster recovery consisting of questionnaires and checklists to cover various contingencies including IT infrastructure, network, application backup and PC and small systems. Other tools included the business impact and dependency analysis with a disaster recovery framework plan.
- Corporate management commitment to BCM
- Departmentalized business continuity (BCM) plans for the corporate
- Corporate strategically oriented BCM
- A well defined BCM framework
- Well defined recovery time objective (RTO) within the BCM
- A well-established database highlighting the solutions for continued administrative purposes
- Accompanying automated tools to execute the BCM
Conclusion
Presently there are technologies and management-oriented solutions to provide disaster recovery and business continuity solutions as indicated from this study. The level to which a solution is profitable for an organization is determined by the management attitude and aspects of the technical know-how of the solution.
There are diverse techniques and management-based solutions to disaster recovery management / business continuity management and these are considered an important management undertaking.
The research exercise was exciting and enlightening and has been able to achieve the learning objectives of the module. The exposure has clearly indicated how important disaster recovery and management procedures are to the management of the organization.
References
Disaster Recovery Tools. (2011). The disaster recovery and business continuity toolkit. Web.
Willy, J.R., & Stevens, L. (2010).Ten best practices for creating and maintaining effective business continuity management plans. Web.