Does Your Disaster Recovery Plan Really Work?
InformationWeek, February 15th, 2023
Most companies have a disaster recovery plan, but few test theirs with any regularity. What if you discover the hard way that the plan doesn't work?
In June, 2021, a research study sponsored by iland and Zerto revealed that only 54% of organizations had a formal disaster recovery plan, less than half of those tested their plans on at least an annual basis, and 7% of organizations never tested their DR plans at all.
Given the daily work pressures on IT, these results are not entirely surprising. However, that lack of testing creates risks when systems fail and the DR plans need to be actuated.