Guest Column: Why 'Resiliency' Is Taking 'Recovery's' Place In DR

By Andrew Barnes, Senior VP of Corporate Development, Neverfail

Over the last decade or so, there's been a lot of talk about the importance of "disaster recovery" for businesses. And make no mistake, this is an important goal: businesses need to be able to recover from a disaster – and quickly – in order to stay competitive.

However, in this age, with an ever-increasing reliance on IT and the applications it supports, it is no longer enough to just talk about disaster recovery. By definition, disaster recovery involves an interruption to business – something from which the company needs to recover. In a disaster recovery situation, businesses must recover their data from backup stores or online copies, and then rebuild the failed applications and connect back to the data. Depending on the agility of the organization, the impact could be a matter of hours or days; in extreme cases, it could threaten the entire business.