Essay on Disaster Recovery plan

A specific type of business plan that states about work for resuming quickly and effectively after particular type of disaster is termed as Disaster Recovery plan. It is typically a business continuity planning that is applied to various aspects in an organisation and relies on an IT infrastructure and functions. The main function of developing the recovery plan is allow the IT department in recovering enough data or system is functioning and allowing the business organisation to operate in a most specific way even at minimum level. The creativity of disaster recovery plan initiated with right proposal of DRP to achieve at the higher grade of support for management. After that an accurate business impact analysis is required for the determination business functions. These are the most critical and important requirement for getting the IT components of multiple functions operational repeatedly after a disaster whether on the level of off-site or on-site. (Sahebjamnia, 2015)

“There are two main points in the proposed IBCDRP framework that includes: overlapping of business continuity and recovery plans and resource allocation” (Sahebjamnia, 2015)

A disaster recovery plan should be initiated at high level of business and further describe about the applications. These applications are considered to be most important for running an organization. Whereas recovery time objective describe about the different features that involves target amount of time with addition of business applications but typically at the lower level. This specific typical level can be measured in terms of hours and minutes. Infact seconds are also taken into the consideration. Moreover recovery time objective tells about the previous point in the praticular time when an applicaton is originally recovered. So by knowing precise strategies, it is possible to identify the good recovery of time and various objectives for its palcement in regular period of time. It is quiet easier to identify good time period of time for th employe by broadening outlooks. While looking at good strategies plan it is necessarily required a good organizational plan for responding to an incidents whereas disaster recovery plan tells about the organization that tends to respond in particular time. however, recovery point objective state about the interval of time that passes during a specific disruption before the quantity of data that has been lost during the period of excess Business Continuity Plan and relates to maximum allowable threshold or tolerance (Hentenryck, 2010)

“The stochastic MIP now decides which repository to open and how much of the commodity to store at each of them. Once these decisions are taken and once the uncertainty is revealed (i.e., the scenario s becomes known), we solve a customer allocation problem, modeled as a MIP” (Hentenryck, 2010)

Therefore the approval for the management of many recovery strategies is quite important. These strategies align with the goals of organisation. A disaster recovery plan once develops it approves and can be translated into many disaster recovery plans in various steps. These steps include establishment of scope of activities, gathering relevant networks and infrastructure document, identification of most serious threats and vulnerabilities and most of the critical assets. It also covers the identification of current DR strategies and emergency response time having many reviews about the management and approving for disaster recovery plan

Moreover, for recovery plane and proper placement of employ, it is important part to know how the organisation respond. Also for the determination of recovery strategy an organisation should consider many aspects such as limit of budget, other resources that consist of any facilities for the people and position for the management of risks. Other important parts are related to technologies, Data and suppliers as well. (Zhuang, 2011).

“After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, an international coalition was created to evaluate the response to the disaster, and the results were summarized in the Tsunami Evaluation Coalition’s (TEC) Synthesis Report, authored by Cosgrave and Telford in 2006” (Zhuang, 2011)

References of Disaster Recovery plan

Hentenryck, P. :. (2010). Strategic planning for disaster recovery with stochastic last mile distribution. In International conference on integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and operations research (OR) techniques in constraint programming (pp. 318-333). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg., pp. 318-333.

Sahebjamnia, N. ( 2015). Integrated business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Towards organizational resilience." European Journal of Operational Research, 242(1), 261-273.

Zhuang, J. C. (2011). Decisions in disaster recovery operations: a game theoretic perspective on organization cooperation. Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, 8(1).