Disaster Recovery in the age of Digital Transformation

September 1, 2018 / GuidesFor Team

A disaster recovery plan is crucial for every modern business today because natural calamities are no longer the only ones that can be disastrous. In this day, the chance of cybercrime to strike twice is a lot more possible to happen. One should simply not take the risk of being complacent.

Since there has been a lot of shift to digitalization, CIO suggests that disaster recovery should now also take a shift from “focusing on availability and reliability of services” to ensuring that “data assets are recoverable and re–integratable into various data powered scenarios” that back businesses.

How can digital transformation be integrated into disaster recovery plans? Find out here. – Gail Limpin

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