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Disaster Recovery
Electronic gadgets like computers, laptops and mobile devices have become an inseparable part of one’s life today and everything revolves around data may be in the form of documents, hard drives, cloud, etc. Though life seems to be easy with the advancement of the technology since we have access to almost any information at the tip of the fingers and in very short time, things have become complicated to an extent that we cannot ignore the downside of the technology at the same time. Though data is accessible very easily to the authorized users, it is similarly been exposed to the unauthorized users if proper care and security measures are not in place. Though we cannot completely stop data from being accessed by unknown users we can strive at least to face the adversities and cope up with the situation. Similarly, for businesses to successfully stand in the market, it requires a proper assessment and plan to survive through the crisis.

What is Disaster Recovery?
Any organization has different components like IT, infrastructure, human resources, etc. Although IT plays an important role in the success of the organization, that is not the only things that deserves the entire concentration. One may not be able to analyze from which component reversals can arise. Any organization must have a planned and structured process to follow in case of any adversities, so that in case of reversals instead of running hither and tither for different solutions, starting from the process of proposing it, designing it and then implementing it, we should have that already in place so that the confidence levels and the customer faith is not shaken. “Depending on the nature of the organization and its size and various other factors, a company must design an optimal plan to minimize the effect of disaster and continue the critical business functions”. Disaster recovery is the process that is followed to recover from the loss of resources without affecting the working of the business and allowing the business to process smoothly and cope up with the loss.

Nature and Significance of the Problem
A disaster is something which is neither planned nor expected. So, it can be in any form and cannot be detected in any case however advanced technology is being used in the organization. Hence it is required on the part of the organization to be ready with backup plans to face the crisis. Some of the factors responsible for disasters include loss of data, natural calamities, fire accidents, power failures, thefts, human factors, cyber-attacks, equipment failure, and so on. Though most of the factors are out of control and can’t be handled come what may, still we have the opportunity to device backup plans to safeguard the data or other resources to ensure business continuity. For example, in case of managing data, to prevent the organization from data losses, we can maintain data centers at different locations and have a mirror copy of each data center at any other part which ensures that even if one of the copy if the data is lost we can manage the business with other copy and in due course of time replicate it to a third location so that the total load is not put on one server which indirectly affects the performance of the business. Disasters can cause serious losses to the business. If the organization does not think in the long run and device policies for disaster recovery in case of adverse situations then it should be ready to either face the consequences or shut down the business, if not completely then at least for a certain time till it can fill the gap and, in a position, to rise again. The consequences that an organization needs to face in the absence of data recovery plans include loss of reputation, loss of income or no income, drop in share value, effecting health conditions of few of the shareholders, shareholders withdrawing from the organization and in the worst scenario shut down. It would be very difficult for an organization to rise from such a disaster and build its trust again in the market.

Conclusion
We all agree to the fact that most of the times things don’t work our way, so we must be prepared to face any situation especially when it involves many resources and varieties of domains. With lot of competition in the market today, it is very easy to lose consumer base and trust of the customers or stake holders even on a dint of small things which might seem to be unimportant to the organization, but when seen from customer point of view, it may be very important. So to avoid getting into any kind of difficulty, it is better to have a disaster recovery and business continuity plan to quickly recover from any unexpected situations and carry on the business with a hope and providing good services to the customers.