Everyone in IT understands that there are disasters and then there are disasters. Regardless of the scale of any interruption in operations, disaster recovery plans generally comprise details describing how IT will accomplish the two most important tasks they will face in the event of a disaster: business continuity contingencies and the recovery of lost data. While being “down” and “disconnected” from the rest of the world can be financially devastating, losing the data upon which the business relies is equivalent to a monarch losing the crown jewels. Now that’s a disaster, no matter what the underlying cause.
Before Web 2.0 made its way onto the corporate stage, a backup – or two – kept us convinced that, should we lose data for some reason, we could always get it back and, more important, get it back in such a state that we’d have lost nothing more than time. With Web 2.0, however, that task has become a bit trickier. There’s more data, more often, that needs to be backed up and replicated, and only so many hours in the day (the dreaded maintenance window) in which we can accomplish this important task.
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