A lot of people are having a hard time comprehending the difference between business continuity vs disaster recovery.
Business continuity is a term used to describe the process of running business operations when there’s a problem, such as a natural disaster, or an unexpected event. These things happen so regularly that they don’t need to be managed or planned for.
Disaster recovery is the process of making all systems available to meet the needs of your business even when your business has lost its way. Disaster recovery is the most important step in business continuity because it ensures that all systems are available to your business whenever it is needed.
Disaster recovery is a huge topic and there are lots of books and articles to support all sorts of ideas. Disaster recovery is an area of expertise for many people, and businesses that are not disaster-aware are very likely to suffer from downtime. But disaster recovery is not about “doing shit for people”. It is about “doing shit for your business”.
Disaster recovery is about ensuring that your system will keep running when it is not expected to. It is about ensuring that your business processes are well-maintained and that your IT systems are always up and running. It is about ensuring that your infrastructure is always secure and that your business is protected should the worst happen. We have many articles here on the blog that talk about how businesses that are disaster-aware are better off than those that aren’t because of the data and systems that are redundant.
Disaster recovery is a very popular strategy these days, but it is not in itself a disaster. If you have a system that is prone to failure, then you are more likely to see a failure now. If you have an infrastructure that is prone to failure, then you are more likely to see a failure again in the future. This is why you must always have redundancy in place.
I think there is an important distinction between disaster recovery and business continuity. Disasters bring a lot of resources out of the normal business world and into the life of the organization. Business continuity is the type of system that allows you to move resources between different parts of the business world and is the type of system that is built to be up and running in the face of a disaster.
Disaster recovery is a lot like business continuity because it is built to survive any kind of failure, whether it’s a natural disaster like an earthquake or a terrorist attack. Disaster recovery is a little bit like a “regular” business continuity because it is built to be able to be used over a long period of time. It is not built to be a single-purpose system that allows resource movement in one direction.
Disaster recovery systems are also built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster. That means that recovery systems are built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster or other types of natural disasters such as fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, or other types of disaster. Business continuity systems are built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster or other types of natural disasters (not earthquakes).
Of course business continuity is built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster or other types of natural disasters. Disaster recovery systems are built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster or other types of natural disasters. Business continuity systems are built to be up and running in the face of a natural disaster or other types of natural disasters not earthquakes.
