Reduce Costly Downtime With DR Testing.You will never know if your recovery plans will actually save you, until you have tested them. The cost of downtime increases exponentially if there are delays in recovery.Testing is the best way to help your organization recover from a disaster. This is because testing will allow you to eliminate gaps and inconsistencies that would otherwise lengthen the recovery process during a real disaster. · Creating a DR test strategy is like baking a cake.· You must make sure you have all the necessary ingredients (or test plans) in place before you execute the test. Lack of proper planning results in inefficiencies and gaps, which will derail the entire testing processMaximize the effectiveness and value from each test by using a cyclical building block approach. Each test feeds into the next test, so that the lessons learned from one test will fully translate to the next test. · DR preparedness is all about having proper processes, methodologies, and mindset. · While a large budget can buy you expensive technologies, without the proper processes in place, the effectiveness of those technologies will be severely limited.

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