Disaster Recovery for Business Organizations

Natural disaster or human made disaster happens seldom. A business organization cannot survive in such situations, if appropriate disaster recovery plans are in place. Disaster recovery is the process involving policies and procedures which help for recovery and continuation of the business infrastructure in crucial times.

Disaster recovery is a concept developed in 1970s when computer systems are being used in business organizations. In 1980 to 1990s disaster recovery industry found rapid growth.

Disasters can be classified in to two types. First one is natural like floods, hurricanes, earthquakes which are beyond human control. The second one is man made disasters which are like infrastructure failure, terrorism, mishandling, gross negligence, fire in electrical wiring of office building etc

Natural Disaster aftermath

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Different types of control measures are available nowadays to eliminate or reduce the threats to business organizations in the event of any disaster. Disaster recovery planning includes business continuity planning which involves methods for resumption of data, applications, communications etc.

Preventive measures, detective measures and corrective measures are used in IT disaster recovery control process.

Nowadays cloud storage and cloud computing are becoming popular. Now companies use cloud technologies with automatic daily testing and backup. This gives 100% recovery and 100% customer satisfaction.

Earlier data backups were made in magnetic tapes and stored in off-site at regular intervals, replication of data to an off-store location, hybrid cloud solutions which replicates both on-ste and off-site data and applications. Some use local mirrors of systems and use disk protection method like RAID.