Disaster Recovery (D/R)

It is important to consider the following issues.

• How would a shutdown of your IT systems affect your business?

• Is your data and business-critical processing protected from a site disaster?

• What does a system outage cost an organization per hour?

• In the event of a permanent failure of the primary system, how long would it take to recover?

• How much data would be lost in the ‘worst case’ scenario?

For more details, see the following subsections.