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Disaster recovery is a "safety net", says IT employee

30/01/2009

An IT employee has spoken out about disaster recovery, comparing it to a "safety net" and adding that an effective business continuity plan is essential for successful companies.

Writing for Computerworld under a pseudonym, J.F. Rice has criticised his company's current disaster recovery plan.

He said: "I can't in good conscience sit idly by while we roll out critical services without the safety net of disaster recovery - that's like watching a friend drive without a seat belt."

Mr Rice added that while there is a good chance that nothing will go wrong with the company he works for, "if something does go wrong, the consequences can be so severe that the overall risk is beyond acceptance".

Recently, an expert claimed that managed hosting solutions and virtualisation could help make disaster recovery plans more effective.

Writing for WhatPC, Tim Dunger said that virtualisation-based business continuity solutions could store copies of entire servers on virtual machines.

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