Since 9/11 the IT industry has been buzzing with the term Disaster Recovery. While the concept has been around for many years, Disaster Recovery has a different connotation nowadays. As business technology and software applications have advanced, Disaster Recovery has come to mean more than simply the ability to get your systems back online after a power outage.

Today effective disaster and business continuity planning firms like CoSentry look at every possible impact on a clients business, from stock losses, supply chain issues, loss of reputation, impaired transport and communication links to damaged customer relationships.