Why do most companies do not have a business continuity strategy and disaster recovery measures in place?
is cost the prohibiting factor for companies to formulate a plan and be "disaster" ready? or is more the cycles spent to put one, generally speaking?
The large companies do, especially the financial corporations, and companies that are heavily invested in IT to do business. IBM was responsible for the implementing/backup of the financial institutions in the NY Trade Center. After 9/11 those businesses were up and running 4 days after the disaster….all records were kept backed up at a secured site. Companies just do not think/realize anything will happen to them. Every government agency has a disaster recovery plan not only written, but back up measures already taken. It’s not so much the cost, but the realization that something could happen. (retired IBM corp exec/former US FED/DC/ college professor)
December 28th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Because it’s a pain in the butt to write them up and the people most equipped to write and implement them – engineers – are more interested in fixing problems and doing their work rather than writing documents.
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Unix admin 10 years
December 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Because they think nothing will ever happen to them! Keeping the head buried in the sand…
I used to work for a company that had their disaster recovery plan posted on a secure website that was hosted out of state (I work in California)
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December 28th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
The large companies do, especially the financial corporations, and companies that are heavily invested in IT to do business. IBM was responsible for the implementing/backup of the financial institutions in the NY Trade Center. After 9/11 those businesses were up and running 4 days after the disaster….all records were kept backed up at a secured site. Companies just do not think/realize anything will happen to them. Every government agency has a disaster recovery plan not only written, but back up measures already taken. It’s not so much the cost, but the realization that something could happen. (retired IBM corp exec/former US FED/DC/ college professor)
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