Chapter 13
Business Continuity
Organizations have had business and regulatory reasons to implement infrastructure for business continuity or disaster recovery for quite some time. Many decision makers considered this to be yet another big IT expense, one for which the cost was greater than the risk. Those organizations that lived with the risk of natural disaster understood how important it was to design an IT infrastructure that could rapidly respond to a site becoming unavailable. September 11, 2001, put many organizations' ability to recover from a disaster to the test. Hurricane Katrina was another test. Some organizations passed, and some failed. Failing this test can cause a business to lose huge amounts of money or even go bankrupt.
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