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There’s no doubt that there’s been a huge focus on disaster recovery (DR) beginning in 2020 and carrying over into 2021. The high-profile and wide-ranging SolarWinds breach along with the rise in ransomware and malware attacks has caused a lot of organizations to reevaluate their DR strategies.
In the past, many businesses just viewed DR plans as an insurance policy they would probably never need to use. However, this past year has underlined how important DR plans can be to enable businesses to recover from all types of outages ranging from hardware failures to recovering from malware attacks. Gartner reported that “seventy-six percent of respondents reported an incident during the past two years that required an IT DR plan; more than 50% reported at least two incidents.”
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However, today’s DR requirements go beyond maintaining your existing recovery strategies. Today, the influx of a wide range of new technologies and changes in the ways that businesses operate have forced organizations to change and evolve their DR processes. Some of the main factors that are driving organizations to rethink their DR strategies include:
Data is the most valuable asset for most businesses. Data drives applications and provides business insights for better decision-making. If a disaster or a malware attack results in downtime — even for a short amount of time — it can result in a significant loss of revenue and productivity as well as damaged customer and partner relations. It’s no surprise that in response to the rapidly changing DR environment that DR budgets are increasing. The State of Enterprise Data Resiliency and Disaster Recovery report found that 74.9% of respondents said their DR budget has grown over the past year. Gartner has reported that “in 2020, 50% of organizations expect to spend at least 7% of their IT budget on disaster recovery (DR), compared to 30% in 2019.”
As today’s computing solutions grow more varied and more complex, the DR plans that you use to protect them must evolve to encompass these new technologies and operating procedures that today’s businesses have been adopting.
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