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•Guest Column: Today's Corporate Disaster Recovery Plans Should Begin With A Plan To Automate DR

By Jerome Wendt, DCIG LLC

A few years ago an article appeared on TechTarget's SearchDataManagement site that examined the top 10 reasons that disaster recovery plans fail. Granted, that article is over three years old but the points that the author makes are just as valid now as they were then even though from a technology perspective a lot has changed.

A company is now more likely to use disk as part of its backup process and deduplicate backup data as it is stored to minimize capacity requirements. This combination of technologies should result in marked improvements in backup and recovery success rates. But disk-based backup, deduplicated data stores and successful backups and recoveries do not necessarily translate into a successful disaster recovery plan. All it means is that long broken backup processes are working and the company can finally turn its attention to recovering its business.

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•Guest Column: Today's Corporate Disaster Recovery Plans Should Begin With A Plan To Automate DR