Contingency Planning Management
Marco Cremonini and Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy
Growing Dependence on the IT Infrastructure
Causes of Downtimes: The Prevalence of Small Disasters
Understanding the Company's Business
Recovery Strategies: Backup and Recovery of Data
Techniques for Data Backup and Recovery
Ensuring Continuity of Operations: Alternate Sites Strategy
Backup and Recovery For Web-Based Hosting Services
Training, Exercising, and Reviewing the Plan
Business Continuity and Investment Shortage
INTRODUCTION
Disaster recovery (DR) comprises a set of activities aimed at recovering and restoring critical business assets after the occurrence of an unforeseen event that has impaired corporate functions. From the 1970s era of EDP mainframes and centralized data centers until recently, DR has been associated with protecting against the consequences of external catastrophic events (e.g., floods, fires, or earthquakes). In turn, recovery and restoration activities were mostly focused on physical facilities and IT assets (data storages in particular) that could have been damaged.
However, the way in which companies are organized and managed has ...
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