This is a series discussing about What Are the Current Trend for IT Disaster Recovery? Here, we will disucc about the impact of mobile devices to the IT DR.
DRP-5000 Course Reading: This blog served as pre-reading for participants attending the IT DR Expert Implementer course or course code DRP-5000. You are expected to discuss about the current and future trends affecting IT disaster recovery (DR) and briefly share your immediate and future investment on you IT DR strategy based on a series of latest trends and it will be facilitated by an IT DR expert.
IT Disaster Recovery Trends: Mobility Devices
From an IT DR standpoint, the "always available by your side" mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets facilitates the continuation of IT operations and business processes even after a disaster strikes. With ever ready mobile devices steadily taking over the world, its impact on IT organizations especially the way we look at IT disaster recovery. To meet ever growing IT infrastructure needs and to ensure business continuity in case of a site-level disaster, it is critical to have live mobility and fully automated, efficient disaster recovery (DR) processes for virtualized enterprise applications across data centers. Failure to have a robust and efficient mobility and fully automated disaster recovery solution can result in millions of dollars of lost revenue and employee productivity.
Work from Home and Usage of Personal Devices
It is becoming a common practice for organisation to allow their staff members to work from home. When working from home, a power or Internet outage can be more than just inconvenient. However, with the use of mobility devices, its usage will be less impacted by the outages. The downside is that the data usage of personal devices is not chargeable to the organisation as the money is paid out of the employees' pocket. Hence, organisation are beginning the weigh the pros and cons and when it formulates a IT DR backup or business continuity plan, it will inevitable have to consider the usage of personal devices out of office environment.
Able to Work Remotely During Outages
One of the positive impacts of the prevalence of mobile devices is that it gives people a greater ability to work remotely and communicate using their devices in an emergency.
Often in a disaster event, employees may not be able to get to the office and instead could end up working from their homes and even at coffee shops or anyplace with an Internet connection.
Create Better Business Opportunity
Having access to all the needed tools and communication through a disaster is everything. Organisation can continue on business as usual. With the aid of better mobility, the organisation can increase its business opportunity. Most customers and potential ones would like to be able to:
- collaborate with colleagues and customers in a disaster situation.
- give them the assurance that your organisation is able to fill their needs even when a disruption had occurred to you.
- know that you as their provider can continue offering services in the area
- have a level of assurance that your employees are doing their job with easy to use, access anywhere technology to support them
Backup of Personal Devices
The mobile device proliferation has also increased the complexity of IT DR slightly as this trends increase. Now, it will be important that organisation remember to back up employees’ mobile devices as well. When disaster strikes, it will likely be mobility that helps a business quickly get back to work.
