Savvy companies are now beginning to realize that standard backup policies and redundant systems are no longer enough. These companies are pioneering a new approach and are putting a strategic emphasis on rapid and well-rehearsed disaster recovery.
In conversation with Bob Melk, CIO magazine’s publisher emeritus, Gil Brodnitz, an executive partner in Accenture's IT Strategy and Transformation practice, discusses the threats posed by IT disasters and how the current business climate is contributing to them as well as the ways in which business and IT teams could be preparing for them. Brodnitz then shares Accenture’s seven-step approach for successful IT disaster recovery.
As long as business processes, organizations, applications and infrastructure keep growing and evolving, new failure and recovery scenarios will emerge. An effective recovery strategy calls for a permanent shift in mindset away from compliance and complacency and toward a heightened sense of readiness.