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Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity

And 'ever that management is responsible for business continuity (BC) to implement, simply because we are in the IT department? Because BC is usually identified with information technology?

This is probably because its roots in disaster recovery, business continuity and disaster recovery has largely revolves around information technology. Twenty or thirty years before Christ did not exist as a concept, but the disaster recovery (DR) has - the main concern washow to save data when a disaster has occurred. At that time was very popular to buy expensive equipment and put it in a remote location, so that all important data of a company would have received if such an earthquake would occur. Not only maintained but also that the data more or less the same capacity could be treated as if it were the main site.

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But after a while was clear - what would the data when it is no businessOperations using this data? So it was that the idea of ​​business continuity was born - its purpose is to keep the business going, even if in the event of serious problems.

Definitions

Let's take a look at the definitions - Business Continuity is the "strategic and tactical capabilities of the organization to plan and react to events and disruption of business operations in order to continue business operations at an acceptable level default" (BS 25999-2:2007 ), while the disasterThe recovery is "the process, policies and procedures for the recovery or continuation of the technological infrastructure is critical for an organization to prepare for a natural disaster or man" (Wikipedia.org).

As you can see from the definitions, the focus is on technology in the Dominican Republic, while on business in BC. Therefore, disaster recovery is part of Business Continuity - you may be one of the most important pioneers of the business to consider, or technologicalPart of business continuity.

However, you may have noticed something different - the definition of BC is cited by BS 25999-2, the leading standard for business continuity management, while the definition of DR is quoted from Wikipedia - in fact, "business continuity" is a official designation recognized standard, while "Disaster Recovery" is not.

Implications for the implementation


Because it is a bad idea for an IT department to ensure business continuity for the overall implementationOrganization? Because business continuity is primarily a business issue, not an IT problem. If the IT department was the implementation of Business Continuity for the entire organization, not in a position, the importance of the business, nor to define the importance of the information. In addition, there is a question whether the efforts to build the economic organization.

The best way to organize the implementation of the BC is important to the business side, such a project -Here's how it should achieve greater awareness and acceptance of all parts of the organization. The IT department should play its role in such a project - an important role - to prepare disaster recovery plans.


Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity

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