Defined plans for fast recovery when an unforeseen disaster occurs. All hardware, software and a complete procedure is defined and ready to be deployed to recover from an incident quickly
Some statistics that highlight the critical importance of a solid data backup strategy
- 93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately. (Source: National Archives & Records Administration in Washington.)
- 20% of small to medium businesses will suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years. (Source: Richmond House Group)
- This year, 40% of small to medium businesses that manage their own network and use the Internet for more than e-mail will have their network accessed by a hacker, and more than 50% won’t even know they were attacked. (Source: Gartner Group)
- About 70% of business people have experienced (or will experience) data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster (Source: Carbonite, an online backup service)
- The first reaction of employees who lose their data is to try to recover the lost data themselves by using recovery software or either restarting or unplugging their computer — steps that can make later data recovery impossible. (Source: 2005 global survey by Minneapolis-based Ontrack Data Recovery)
An IT disaster recovery involves a series of actions to be taken in the event of major unplanned outages to minimize their adverse effects.
Disasters can result from events such as hacker attacks, computer viruses, electric power failures, underground cable cuts or failures, fire, flood, earthquake, and other natural disasters at a facility, mistakes in system administration
For those events that can’t be prevented, an IT disaster recovery plan takes into account the need to detect the outages or other disaster effects as quickly as possible, notify any affected parties so that they can take action, isolate the affected systems so that damage cannot spread, repair the critical affected systems so that operations can be resumed, data, systems, people