I wish I could broadcast this out to every small business owner: you can't afford to wait! Having a disaster recovery and business continuity plan isn't just an option., it can be the difference in your business surviving or failing. See the post from Monday (February 3) for more on the subject.
TheGuardian.com ran an article in their Small Business Money Blog about the state of disaster recovery and business continuity planning in small and medium sized businesses:
Business continuity plans: a position for recovery
A few key take-aways:
Small and medium sized business that fail to create a disaster recovery or business continuity plan are more likely to close in the first two years of operating.
"In the Aviva survey, half of SME owners questioned revealed they had no BCP in place, and a further 16% said they didn't think they needed one. Only 36% of respondents were even aware of BCPs and what they were for, while, worryingly, only a quarter (28%) of business owners said they had a BCP in place. The remaining 6% didn't know if they had a BCP or not."
I think this article demonstrates that the need for disaster recovery isn't dead. Big businesses may tout that they have mirroring or use the Cloud and have business resiliency, but there is still a lot that needs to be done ot reach small and medium sized businesses.
I think there's been a trend of some people believing that as technology improves and more business functions are automated, the role of the business continuity professional is diminishing, but that just isn't true. IT continuity isn't business continuity.
