Reducing the value of enterprise managers disaster, recovery plan

When a disaster is restored, the CIO thinks about it, but the enterprise managers don't see it that way. They not only weaken the importance of these programs, but they also fail to understand how technology failures affect their companies.　　This is a new survey by market research firm Harris Interactive, which is sponsored by the SunGard Availability service. 71% of IT managers believe that disaster recovery and business sustainability plans are critical or critical to enterprise success.　　And only 49% of managers think so. "I'm a bit surprised, as a whole, the business is still lagging," says Mark McManus, vice president of it research at Computer Economics in Irvine, California. The concept of disaster recovery is always the IT process, but it has actually become a business sustainable content. It is the overall process of the company that is far beyond it. In many enterprises, business sustainability is not controlled by it at all.　　"McManus says it leaders are more likely to accept the importance of disaster recovery because data and system backups have been more than 30 years as an important part of it.　　Joe Murray, Hxti's technology vice president, said business executives could not understand the needs of their customers without seeing the importance of disaster recovery and the sustainability of their business. "Personally, I think of it as a customer's expectation of service levels," Murray said. If senior management does not see that customers are checking their success through availability and continuity. If they don't bother, they can't talk to their clients. Because there is no service, you are leaving your customers and customers are looking elsewhere. Murray's company in Philadelphia provides diagnostic image management for medical companies. If his company's system is in trouble, his clients cannot treat patients with diagnostic images.　　People's health and peace will be affected. He said: "If our system is damaged, this will affect the process of diagnosing and treating the action." "But other companies ' CIOs aren't so lucky. Many business executives don't know what's at the bottom of their company.　　They are unaware of how a technological failure can cause a ripple effect and harm the company's business. Only 54% of the executives surveyed believed it was necessary to make plans for continuous information availability, while 66% of IT managers believed it.　　Only 63% of business executives believe that the availability of networks, data, systems, and applications is critical to enterprise success, with 86% of IT managers. "It's always like a businessman who sees it as a black box," said Dave Palermo, vice president of SunGard Inc. They can see that their emails don't work, but they don't know if it's serious. The IT people see a lot of smaller things and the business people can't。 The businessman remembers the miserable downtime, but the IT people saw some dots on the screen. Large downtime is quite uncommon. "Research has found that business leaders lack understanding of the true cost and complexity of business sustainability plans, so IT managers find it difficult to get the right funds."　　The result: Business executives do not consider the cost of the plan to be so high. "The real evidence is the level of the Fund. "The study shows that in business, young people who control finance are unwilling to build a budget," Palermo said. It people need to maintain these sustainable levels. It knows it needs to be better, but they don't find it.　　"McManus's own research shows that disaster recovery and business sustainability budgets have been flat for years," he concluded last year's survey of 200 companies. "Last year's 1.6% of the average IT organization's budget was used to achieve disaster recovery and maintain business continuity." "If you have a 1 million-dollar budget, they're spending 16,000 of dollars on disaster recovery," McManus said. This is not enough. It's not even enough to have a hot station. McManus said he found a nail in the disaster recovery plan after the 911 terrorist attacks.　　Since then however the budget is flat. There are 4% to 5% of the possibilities you can get to where you want to go.　　This is still not a large number, but may include all the costs of remote devices, training and planning.　　McManus says the way to solve this disorder is education, and it is the teacher. "This is a process of high management education," he said, "Take your case and give it to the experts to discuss the potential risks they will face." Let them understand that it is vital to keep the technology available. Without technical support, the enterprise cannot run. If they do not, they cannot fully participate from the enterprise, and they may not be able to recover from the disaster. This doesn't happen very often, but you see Tornado Katrina, a lot of companies never recover. ”