Disaster Recovery Survey : Some important insights and recommendations

Symantec conducted a survey in 1650 companies worldwide to osberve the trends in how companies approach Disaster Recovery. FOllowing are some recommendations that a business can employ:



--- Organizations can do a better job at curbing the costs of downtime by implementing more automation tools that minimize human involvement and address other weaknesses in their disaster recovery plans.
--- Because disaster recovery testing is invaluable, but can significantly impact business - including customers and revenue - organizations should seek to improve the success of testing by evaluating and implementing testing methods which are non-disruptive.
--- Organizations should include those responsible for virtualization in disaster recovery plans, especially testing and backup initiatives.
--- Virtual environments should be treated the same as a physical server, showing the need for organizations to adopt more cross-platform and cross-environment tools, or standardize on fewer platforms.