Benefits of Disaster Recovery

Organisations can gain a number of benefits by implementing a disaster recovery plan.

  • Disaster recovery plans ensure that legislation and compliance issues are adhered to. Many organisations have to comply with strict codes of conduct or face being fined. These include banks and other financial services organisations as well as legal practices and organisations that retain medical records.
  • Prevent financial loss. The inability to be able to generate sales even for 24 hours can be catastrophic. This will not only impact upon revenue streams but can have a major impact upon cash-flow.
  • A disaster recovery programme can prevent loss of credibility and goodwill.
  • It will ensure that staff will continue to be paid. There is nothing as de-motivating to your personnel as not being paid!
  • It will ensure that the organisation’s services and production can continue.
  • A disaster recovery programme will prevent the loss of important operational information.

What type of organisations would benefits from Disaster Recovery?

All organisations ideally should have some sort of disaster recovery plan. This may be as simple as having a back-up of key information at a third-party’s premises, such as home, a friend etc. For larger organisations, more complex recovery plans will probably be required.

It should be pointed out, that even for small companies and individuals working from home, they should copy critical information and store it perhaps with a friend or similar. Keeping a copy at home or on site can be useful but in the event of a fire or flood, it can be destroyed.