Most companies are flirting with disaster in IT matters just as they are in other crisis preparedness.
Bulldog Reporter's Daily Dog wrote that Continuity Software, a provider of disaster recovery and business continuity monitoring and management, recently announced the results of its 2012 Service Availability Benchmark Survey. It found that most IT organizations aren't prepared for an interruption in services or crisis of any duration, size, or scale. And they admit they are unprepared.
"In fact, more than a quarter of the firms surveyed admitted that they did not meet their service availability goals for their mission critical systems in 2011. Additionally, 84% confessed that they were aware that their organization lacked sufficient disaster recovery capacity, and 64% stated that they lacked confidence in their disaster-recovery testing." (http://www.bulldogreporter.com/daily-dog/pr-biz-update)
Deni Connor of Systems Strategies NOW stated in a news release, "An IT catastrophe is not a question of 'if,' it is simply a question of 'when.' It is astonishing that any IT executive could continue to neglect his/her data centers in such an egregious fashion, yet keep their jobs."
I think I have said and know I have thought the same thing about crisis planning in general many times. If you think you don't have the money or the time for crisis planning and IT disaster preparedness, wait and see how much money and time will be required after the fact. Connor nailed it: "It is simply a question of when," not if.
"In fact, more than a quarter of the firms surveyed admitted that they did not meet their service availability goals for their mission critical systems in 2011. Additionally, 84% confessed that they were aware that their organization lacked sufficient disaster recovery capacity, and 64% stated that they lacked confidence in their disaster-recovery testing." (http://www.bulldogreporter.com/daily-dog/pr-biz-update)
Deni Connor of Systems Strategies NOW stated in a news release, "An IT catastrophe is not a question of 'if,' it is simply a question of 'when.' It is astonishing that any IT executive could continue to neglect his/her data centers in such an egregious fashion, yet keep their jobs."
I think I have said and know I have thought the same thing about crisis planning in general many times. If you think you don't have the money or the time for crisis planning and IT disaster preparedness, wait and see how much money and time will be required after the fact. Connor nailed it: "It is simply a question of when," not if.
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