THE C-SUITE GUIDE TO MAXIMIZING AVAILABILITY Best-laid IT Recovery Plans To address such issues, many companies design highly available production environments as well as develop extensive IT recovery management plans only to see them fall apart when the unexpected happens. A global benchmark study found that 73 percent of companies are unprepared for disaster recovery. Additionally, the study finds 78 percent those companies experienced outages of critical applications, leading to losses from a few thousand dollars to over $5 million. Many things can occur to prevent a successful recovery, even for those situations that have been identified in a business continuity plan, and prepared for through previous recovery tests. To fulfill the goal of IT availability

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