Purchasing and maintaining
disaster recovery systems will be a major
initiative for firms over the next 12 months. A study by analyst
firm Forrester found that 24% of large firms and 15% of small and
medium-sized enterprises consider disaster recovery to be a top
priority."European firms today are aware that they have to examine their
business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) implementation.
Both enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses report that
upgrading their BC/DR capabilities is at the top of their current
priority list," said Rüdiger Krojnewski, Principal Consultant at
Forrester.
He said that once the business and IT sides of a company have
worked together to identify the business impact of a disaster or
disruption, the BC/DR planner and IT need to identify the set of
threat events most likely to impact critical operations.
