What is Disaster Recovery?
Disaster recovery, often referred to as "DR" is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity involves planning for keeping all aspects of a business functioning in the midst of disruptive events, disaster recovery focuses on the IT or technology systems that support business functions.
DR is a process or procedure related to preparing for the continuation of computing resources after a disaster or failure. Whether the disaster you encounter is due to a natural catastrophe or malicious intent, you need to be able to respond quickly and effectively. Disaster recovery software gives you the ability to respond to an interruption in services by implementing a recovery plan that ensures the timely restoration of your organization's business capabilities and resources.
Disaster recovery can be accomplished by using a number of data protection strategies, including:
- Restoring IT/business operations at an alternate location
- Recovering IT/business operations using alternate equipment, such as tapes or disks
- And/or performing some or all of the affected business processes using manual methods
For comprehensive disaster recovery planning, you can depend on everRun MX Extend to deliver. This disaster recovery software provides uninterrupted data protection across any distance, which is what your business depends on.