Mobile devices will be a big help for disaster recovery

Mobile devices in the workplace

In the view of disaster recovery alone, the growing popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets will drive IT operations and business processes to continue even after a disaster occurs.

"People always carry their own mobile devices," says George Muller, vice president of the Imperial Sugar Company for sales planning, supply chains and it. I can't take my laptop with me anywhere, but if there's a sudden disaster, at least my BlackBerry will still be in my shirt pocket. Anything that can bring us connectivity through ubiquitous forms is good. ”

A positive impact of the popularity of mobile devices is that it gives people greater ability to use these devices for telecommuting and communications in an emergency, said Intel IT group vice president and CISOs Malcolm Harkins.

But the proliferation of mobile devices will also make disaster recovery more complex, Dines said. "There will be an increasing number of mobile devices entering the data center infrastructure, such as mobile device Management Servers and BlackBerry Enterprise Servers, which are often very important." They become systems that must be properly planned and protected. ”

Another negative impact of mobility in disaster recovery is that some key enterprise applications, such as compensation systems, may not be able to run on mobile devices, Silverstone said.

Harkins points out that there are also potential security risks, such as unencrypted mobile devices that may be lost or stolen, unauthorized access to the corporate network through these devices. However, these risks can be overcome by remotely erasing data from the device.