Friday, October 24, 2008

Traditional disaster recovery test models outgrow usefulness

Most CIOs at enterprise-level companies are in on the dirty little secret of disaster recovery (DR) testing: The traditional DR test method is outgrowing its usefulness. The complexity of today's environments makes true simulation of recovery from a disaster quite difficult.

CIOs aren't abandoning the method -- there are as yet few alternatives -- but analysts say they would be wise to incrementally increase the scope of testing and look to tools to monitor software configuration changes to increase effectiveness.

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