Is It Time for Test-Driven Disaster Recovery?

IT disaster recovery planning needs realistic risk assessment, but it also needs to be tested. You have to know for sure that in the event of damage, loss or unavailability of any IT-related asset, your organisation can get back to normal operations as quickly as needed and limit prejudice as required. You will never know if that will happen if you do not test. Yet testing is the Achilles heel of many enterprises. From failing to check that data backups can be restored, to finding out too late that a DR plan has missed a crucial factor, shortcomings in testing can be your undoing. Is it time to change your testing perspective altogether? Read more