Disaster recovery and business continuity management (BCM) should be a definite priority for South African organisations in order to minimise any loss of revenue, profit and customer base to the opposition as a result of downtime.
Any organisation should be confident enough that its business will recover should it be one of the many South African companies that experience downtime due to unforeseen circumstances.
ContinuitySA, in partnership with ITWeb, is conducting an online Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Survey during November.
"The reason for this year's disaster recovery and continuity survey is to gain a better understanding of the trends and requirements of South African organisations for the future, and what technologies are being used for disaster recovery and business continuity," says Davies.
He believes South African organisations are no strangers to business disruptions. "For example, Eskom power outages and politically motivated strikes and marches can have huge implications on business. However, South African organisations are typically poor with regards to having formal business continuity management and resilience planning and documentation in place."
However, Davies says there is lots of interest in cloud computing, mobility and bring your own devices in SA, but, in his opinion, there remains a lack of clarity on what this all really means.
"Cyber crime and IT security are becoming more and more important to organisations and can have huge implications," Davies states.
"The associated cost and lack of adequate budgets inevitably have an impact on the willingness of management to implement disaster recovery and continuity solutions, often to the detriment of the organisation. Companies tend to cut BCM spend in tough times but, ironically, that is exactly what can normally assist companies in those tough times," Davies says.
He adds that he believes disaster recovery and continuity is just as critical to an organisation as financial planning, IT and resource strategies.
"Buy-in from top management and securing budget for the purpose of disaster recovery and continuity is one of the main challenges that organisations face during these economically challenged times," says Davies.
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